William H Macy stars as a middle-aged Las Vegas casino worker who falls for a young hooker-waitress (Mario Bello), upsetting his nasty boss, Alec Baldwin. Macy turns on his sad charm as a loser who […]
Marcel Ophuls’s landmark 1969 documentary film The Sorrow and the Pity shatters the comforting myth that most of France had resisted the Nazis in World War Two. It was was banned from French TV and […]
Writer-producer-director Alan J Pakula’s quietly devastating 1982 film, faithfully adapted from the bestselling novel by William Styron, stars Meryl Streep, who won a Best Actress Oscar as Sophie, the enigmatic Polish survivor of Nazi concentration […]
Laura Carmichael (Lady Edith Crawley in Downton Abbey) and Chloe Pirrie star as busom buddies Seph and Alex, who attend the funeral of their best friend Dan (Jack Farthing), who has died of a rare cancer at 29. Dan’s […]
Ira Sachs’s 2016 family drama Little Men is a very sweet and also very sad movie, beautifully acted, wisely written and nicely realised. Greg Kinnear does wonders to light up a none-too-sympathetic role as the weak-willed, […]
Director Jack Cardiff’s 1960 British film Sons and Lovers is an astonishingly distinguished, and often heartrending version of the D H Lawrence semi-autobiographical novel. Young American star Dean Stockwell is entirely at ease as the […]
Esteemed cult writer director Samuel Fuller delivers an uncomfortable but rivetingly intriguing 1982 thriller, in which Kristy McNichol stars as Julie Sawyer, an actress who unwittingly takes in a white German Shepherd dog trained to […]
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