Director Lewis Milestone is true to the seriousness and pacificism of German author Erich Maria Remarque’s novel in this astonishing film to come out of Hollywood, which still has the ability to shock and move […]
Martin Scorsese’s 1974 romantic drama film Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore is a triumph for Oscar-winning Ellen Burstyn, Kris Kristofferson and Oscar-nominated Diane Ladd. Martin Scorsese’s 1974 romantic drama film Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore […]
Producer-director Stanley Kramer’s classic liberal 1958 film is a simple, moral tale that works well thanks to the strong writing, the classy photography, the all-round excellent performances, the exciting chase sequences, the crafted production and […]
Ferenc Molnár’s play is beautifully remade in France by Fritz Lang, only four years after Frank Borzage’s 1930 film with Charles Farrell and Rose Hobart. The young Charles Boyer is ideal as the Budapest carnival […]
Sidney Poitier doesn’t get enough credit as the game changer in the situation. He became the first African American to win the Best Actor Oscar and was only the second African American star to win […]
Producer-director Stanley Kramer’s 1967 old-fashioned drawing room comedy drama is impeccably liberal minded and well meaning but it stirred up controversy by standing accused of patronising African Americans. Good hearted as it is, it was […]
Director Lowell Sherman’s 1933 romantic drama stars the 26-year-old Katharine Hepburn, who won her first Oscar as Eva Lovelace, a starry-eyed, naively innocent, aspiring actress who arrives in Manhattan as a Broadway babe trying to be […]
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