Producer David O Selznick in 1957 turns Ernest Hemingway’s complex, famous world-classic 1929 semi-autobiographical novel into a bloated Hollywood romance in this overlong, overblown and underwhelming remake of the 1932 film with Gary Cooper and […]
Director Frank Borzage in 1932 turns Ernest Hemingway’s complex, famous world-classic 1929 semi-autobiographical novel into a classy and stylish Hollywood romance. It won two Oscars and was nominated for best picture. Gary Cooper stars as […]
This slick but reprehensible 1994 English-language French urban neo noir thriller is directed with knowing flash that is all surface and no depth by co-producer/ writer/ director Luc Besson. His story about an illiterate mob […]
Burt Lancaster is on his most commanding form as a proud Sicilian nobleman, and Alain Delon and Claudia Cardinale are at their most dashing as the young lovers, in Luchino Visconti’s majestic 1963 movie The […]
The majestic Swedish writer-director Ingmar Bergman’s 1957 masterwork The Seventh Seal is a major classic of world cinema. After 17 films as director, it established Bergman’s international reputation as a film-maker of world renown and […]
‘That’s the way it crumbles… cookie-wise.’ – C.C. Baxter. Co-writer/producer/director Billy Wilder’s delightful bitter-sweet comedy 1960 classic stars Jack Lemmon as Calvin Clifford (C C) ‘Buddy Boy’ Baxter. It is Wilder’s triumphant follow-up to Some Like […]
Chuck Barris has a notable place in American TV history as the Sixties and Seventies deviser and host of The Dating Game (1965–1986), the original US version of Blind Date, and host of The Gong […]
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