The ideally cast Isabelle Huppert and Jean-François Balmer are splendid in Claude Chabrol’s lavish, handsome and well-played but dry, chilly, dark and depressing French 1991 film production of Gustave Flaubert’s much re-told story of how […]
‘A dozen top stars – five famed directors – bring you the best stories of O. Henry!’ The 20th Century Fox studio’s compendium anthology film of five of O Henry’s most celebrated stories from his New […]
Director Marion Gering’s 1932 Paramount Pictures black and white movie Madame Butterfly is an antique curio, but nevertheless an interesting one, and Sylvia Sidney makes something touching of the famous tragic heroine. The normally polished Cary Grant […]
Director Gillian Armstrong’s 1979 Australian feminist drama My Brilliant Career stars Judy Davis, giving a commanding performance in her second film as Sybylla Melvyn, the fiercely independent, self-assured Aussie bush-farmer’s daughter who wants to take […]
Director Gillian Armstrong’s 1984 drama Mrs Soffel looks good on paper: the then new star Mel Gibson on the crest on a wave, Oscar-winning Diane Keaton in mid-career, and bright new star Matthew Modine in […]
Director Frank Tuttle’s 1934 archetypal Thirties romantic comedy Ladies Should Listen stars Cary Grant as a wide-eyed French business executive called Julian de Lussac under assault from his romantically inclined switchboard operator telephonist Anna Mirelle […]
‘They say there are great, pitch black spaces between the stars. I think they are between people too.’ – Lisa Della Robbia. Director Elliott Nugent’s 1935 Paramount black and white romantic comedy Enter Madame stars […]
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