‘Free Cinema’ documentary director Lindsay Anderson painstakingly, wittily and sympathetically records the daily life and hard-graft toil of workers in London’s glorious old Covent Garden fruit, vegetable and flower market. Made in 1957, the 37-minute documentary is […]
Writer-director Lindsay Anderson’s 13-minute black-and-white documentary short on the Margate, Kent, amusement park of the title is a richly flavoursome, poignant classic. In place of any commentary, the story is told in background noises and […]
‘Vanity – definitely my favourite sin.’ Al Pacino and Keanu Reeves sizzle in director Taylor Hackford’s thrilling 1997 supernatural horror mystery thriller film The Devil’s Advocate, based on Andrew Neiderman’s 1990 novel. Hackford ensures that […]
Walt Disney’s second animated adventure feature film Pinocchio, based on Italian writer Carlo Collodi’s 1883 children’s novel The Adventures of Pinocchio (Le avventure di Pinocchio), is a double Oscar winner for its Best Original Score […]
Keira Knightley stars as English singer-songwriter Gretta who goes to New York with her long-time boyfriend Dave (Adam Levine) when he lands a deal with a major label. But the manipulative Dave is unfaithful, naturally rattling […]
Director Sam Wood’s 1937 Marx Brothers comedy gem A Day at the Races stars Groucho Marx as horse doctor Hugo Z Hackenbush who is romancing (as always) the redoubtable Margaret Dumont, this time playing rich […]
‘I could dance with you ‘til the cows come home. On second thought, I’d rather dance with the cows ‘til you came home.’ Director Leo McCarey’s glorious vintage 1933 comedy delivers firecracker lunacy from the […]
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