Merchant-Ivory’s 1977 three-part drama film Roseland is a subtle, poignant, slow-burning charmer, set in the Roseland Ballroom in New York City. It stars Teresa Wright, Lou Jacobi, Geraldine Chaplin, Christopher Walken, Joan Copeland, and Lilia Skala. Director […]
Director Arthur Hiller’s 1987 Outrageous Fortune is a just a shade better than so-so comedy vehicle for two of the most talented comediennes of the 80s – Shelley Long and Bette Midler. The spy plot, […]
Michael Ritchie’s 1980 concert film Divine Madness is a terrific record of the divine Miss Bette Midler’s one-woman show, filmed over three days at the Pasadena Civic Auditorium. Director Michael Ritchie’s 1980 American music documentary concert […]
The colourful 1979 romantic musical drama film The Rose stars Bette Midler as self-destructive rock star Rose, who takes up with chauffeur-drifter Huston Dyer (Frederic Forrest). Midler won a Golden Globe and both stars were […]
Director Mark Rydell’s 1991 For the Boys is a lavish, old-fashioned musical drama vehicle for Bette Midler as Dixie Leonard, an American showgirl with a heart of gold and a will of iron, who teams […]
American star Denzel Washington comes to the UK to play a working-class soldier from an inner London council estate in Brixton, who, on his return from the Falklands War, finds that nobody wants to give […]
Director Peter Duffell’s riveting 1980 Caught on a Train stars Peggy Ashcroft as Frau Messner, an imperious Austrian lady who terrifies young Briton Peter (Michael Kitchen) on an overnight train passing through Germany, in writer […]
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