Director Irving Reis’s often vivacious, always appealing 1949 Technicolor musical comedy Dancing in the Dark is enlivened by William Powell’s polished performance as Emery Slade, a former silent star employed by studio boss Melville Crossman […]
Precocious Lana Turner, then MGM’s new teenage sensation, aged 18 and making the most of her first starring role, dances and studies her way to success as Patty Marlow, the ambitious dancing co-ed of the […]
Director Michael Radford’s 2002 Dancing at the Blue Iguana is a brave and intriguing improvised drama exploring the everyday dilemmas faced by women working at a seedy strip-club, from adoption to pregnancy to seeking stardom. […]
Director Pat O’Connor’s 1998 romantic comedy drama Dancing at Lughnasa tells the ripe tale of prim schoolmarm Kate Mundy (Meryl Streep) and her four unmarried sisters (Catherine McCormack, Kathy Burke, Sophie Thompson, Brid Brennan) in […]
Director Mike Ockrent’s good-natured, warm-hearted 1990 British comedy Dancin’ Thru the Dark stars Claire Hackett as Linda, who is out on a wild hen-night with her hen friends while her fiancé Dave (Conrad Nelson) is […]
Director Bob Kellett’s relatively harmless 1977 British comedy Are You Being Served? is the big-screen spinoff from the much-loved long-running BBC TV series as the staff of the London Grace Brothers department store flies off […]
Antoine Monnier stars as alienated, tormented soul Charles, who is living his life walking under a cloud and decides that suicide is the only option, in writer-director Robert Bresson’s typically distinguished and profound, gloomy and […]
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