Charles Chaplin wrote, produced and directed the silent 1923 romantic drama A Woman of Paris, a simple story of a country girl called Marie St Clair (Edna Purviance) who believes she has been jilted and […]
Director James Ivory’s 1969 comedy drama The Guru stars Michael York as English pop singer Tom Pickle, who goes to Bombay, India, to learn the sitar (this is the late Sixties) with maestro Ustad Zafar […]
Schoolgirls Val Boyd (Tippy Walker) and Gil Gilbert (Merri Spaeth) find avant-garde pianist Henry Orient (Sellers) committing adultery with Stella Dunnworthy (Paula Prentiss) in public in New York’s Central Park, in director George Roy Hill’s odd […]
Sidney Poitier directs the 1982 Hitchcockian comedy thriller Hanky Panky, with Gene Wilder as an innocent architect, Michael Jordon, chased across country by spies and police. Gilda Radner plays the mystery woman accompanying him and […]
Writer-producer-director-star Gene Wilder goes every which way for laughs in his 1977 Twenties Hollywood send-up The World’s Greatest Lover – and raises quite a high score of them. He plays Milwaukee baker Rudy Hickman who […]
Writer-director-star Gene Wilder’s 1975 comedy The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes’ Smarter Brother is likeable enough and acceptable if you are in a tolerant mood, and Wilder and the Mel Brooks company (Marty Feldman as Sgt […]
Director Sam Mendes feels it’s timely to bang on about the First World War again in his 2019 war drama 1917. Maybe it is, or maybe it’s about 100 years too late for this film. […]
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