Director Henry Koster’s 1940 Spring Parade is a sweet and entertaining featherweight romantic musical, in which Hungarian girl Ilonka Tolnay (Deanna Durbin) grows up to be the baker Latislav Teschek (S Z Sakall)’s helper in the […]
Myrna Loy made just one film with Robert Taylor: MGM’s fly-away bit of fluff, the 1939 comedy film Lucky Night. ‘THEY’RE IN LOVE! YOU’RE IN LUCK! IT’S HAPPY-GO-LUCKY’ Likeable, lightweight MGM stars Myrna Loy and […]
The majestic 1959 The World of Apu (Apur Sansar) is the last part of Indian writer-producer-director Satyajit Ray’s great Apu trilogy and is its crowning glory. Apu (Soumitra Chatterjee) grows to love his arranged-marriage wife […]
Pather Panchali (1955) is Indian writer-producer-director Satyajit Ray’s first film and the start of his stunning Apu trilogy charts the growth of Apu Ray (Subir Banerjee), a small boy born in a poor Bengali village, […]
Writer-producer-director Satyajit Ray’s 1956 Indian masterpiece Aparajito [The Unvanquished] is the wonderfully touching middle episode in Ray’s majestic epic family drama the Apu trilogy, which takes the saga from the hero’s infancy of Pather Panchali […]
‘SIGHTS NEVER BEFORE SEEN – Adventure never before experienced!’ Fantasy-film producer-director George Pal’s 1961 sci-fi adventure Atlantis: The Lost Continent is based on a play by Sir Gerald Hargreaves and stars Anthony Hall, Joyce Taylor, […]
Charm is high on the menu for director Fina Torres’s tasty, carefree romantic comedy soufflé Woman on Top (2000). Penélope Cruz cooks up a delightful turn as a Brazilian chef called Isabella Oliveira, who moves to […]
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