Find out where Robin Hood put his Little John and what made Will Scarlet. Mel Brooks’s 1993 spoof comedy film Robin Hood: Men in Tights is amiable and amusing. ‘The legend had it coming… Find […]
The decadence of Ancient Rome inspires director Federico Fellini, who is on fine, lusty form in this 1969 movie version of the classic book by Petronius (Gaius Petronius Arbiter). In the tales, two student friends, […]
Producer-director Ernst Lubitsch’s last completed film is the 1946 sophisticated romantic comedy Cluny Brown, set in pre-World War Two England, getting its laughs out of satirising the smugness of British high society. Jennifer Jones stars as […]
Kevin Costner, James Earl Jones, Ray Liotta, Burt Lancaster, Amy Madigan star in the classic 1989 fantasy drama film Field of Dreams, a huge success for Kevin Costner, as struggling Iowa corn farmer Ray Kinsella. […]
Co-writer/director Luis Buñuel’s wonderful surrealist comedy of manners and satire on social mores and class hypocrisy won the 1973 Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film (for France). It is an unmissable Buñuel classic. Behind all the […]
Director Alain Resnais’s infamous, impenetrable 1961 mystery movie has the coolly gorgeous and impressively enigmatic Delphine Seyrig wandering about elegantly in a huge, old-fashioned luxury hotel. Last Year at Marienbad is all way too arty and […]
Director Jack Clayton’s painstaking, beguilingly romantic 1974 version of the great F Scott Fitzgerald novel of 1925 is the third movie of the classic work. It is lit up with captivating performances headed by Robert […]
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