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Al Pacino’s super 1996 home movie documentary on William Shakespeare’s play Richard III and its meaning and significance is a riveting mix of documentary and drama. His cameras follow an all-star cast and crew throughout […]
The likeable 1977 film The Goodbye Girl provides a great showcase for Richard Dreyfuss, who won the 1978 Best Actor Oscar as a struggling off-Broadway actor reluctantly forced to live with an unemployed divorced dancer […]
Peter Yates turns Ronald Harwood’s 1980 hit play about a veteran ham Shakespearean actor-manager (Albert Finney) and his camp personal assistant dresser (Tom Courtenay) into the 1983 British film The Dresser. Producer-director Peter Yates turns […]
In a semi-autobiographical 1976 film story about the struggles of an aspiring Jewish actor in the Fifties, writer-director Paul Mazursky manages much charming, witty nostalgia, and creates lots of fascinating, memorable characters. It is entertaining, […]
Grace Kelly won the Best Actress Oscar for her non-glamorous departure role as an alcoholic actor (Bing Crosby)’s long-suffering wife, in the 1954 drama The Country Girl. Writer-director George Seaton’s double Oscar-winning 1954 drama The Country […]
Director Marcel Carné’s glorious French 1945 epic romantic movie re-creates 1830s and 1840s Paris in an astounding studio production somehow conjured up during the wartime Occupation austerity of World War Two. This meant building what was then […]
Director Joseph Pevney’s 1957 dip into Hollywood history provides a very good biopic of silent star Lon Chaney Snr, mainly memorable for James Cagney’s rousing performance as the Man of a Thousand Faces and the […]