Writer-producer-director Mike Figgis’s 1999 British film Miss Julie is an interesting but stagey and sluggish rendition of August Strindberg’s world classic play, with actory performances, too many hand-held camera and too-large close-ups, in which the […]
Director Alf Sjöberg’s 1951 Swedish classic Miss Julie (Fröken Julie) is a masterly reworking for cinema of August Strindberg’s world renowned play, in which the moneyed Miss Julie (Anita Björk) plays with her man-servant Jean […]
Producer-director Vittorio De Sica’s warmhearted 1951 Italian classic Miracle in Milan [Miracolo a Milano] is a fairy tale about an angelic young orphan called Totò (Francesco Golisano) who arrives in a poor community outside Milan where […]
The 1970 Oscar-winning Italian drama film The Garden of Finzi-Continis (Il Giardino dei Finzi Contini) is a marvellous late return to form for director Vittorio De Sica, who revisits the period of his youth to […]
‘After Young Winston – Young Milligan!’ Director Norman Cohen’s sometimes amusing 1973 comedy Adolf Hitler: My Part in His Downfall is based on the entertaining novel of the great and good legendary comic Spike Milligan. […]
Amandla Stenberg gives a stellar performance as troubled high school teen Starr Carter, in director George Tillman Jr’s epic crime/ race drama The Hate U Give. Audrey Wells writes a very convincing, well organised screenplay based on […]
Director Henry Koster’s 1955 historical drama The Virgin Queen provides a useful showcase for Bette Davis to re-create her superb Queen Elizabeth I characterisation from the classic The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex (1939), […]
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