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Director W S Van Dyke II’s 1935 screwball comedy romantic drama stars Joan Crawford, who is from the right side of the tracks this time as pampered, bored New York society girl, Kay Bentley. But she […]
Pauline Collins was Oscar nominated as Best Actress for the 1989 film version of Willy Russell’s stage show Shirley Valentine and won the Best Actress award at the BAFTA Film Awards and the Evening Standard British […]
Director Peter Yates’s third collaboration with screen-writer Steve Tesich is an awfully limp 1985 true-life drama film about New York journalist Nick (John Malkovich)’s trip back to Greece to investigate the death of his mother […]
Director David MacDonald’s entertaining 1949 historical biopic was originally scorned because it lacks a seriousness of purpose. But now it can be admired as an enjoyable piece of good fun, as well as for its […]
A triumph for writer, producer, director, star Jules Dassin and his actress wife Melina Mercouri, this lusty 1959 romantic comedy drama is a vivacious delight all round, with delightful performances, a sparkling script and a […]
The real-life 1963 murder of prominent Greek leftist Gregorios Lambrakis forms the basis for this brilliant, fast-paced political thriller from political film-maker Constantin Costa-Gavras that won the 1970 Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film (Algeria). […]
Melina Mercouri makes a predictably commanding Phaedre, who, though married to powerful Greek shipowner Thanos (Raf Vallone), seduces her stepson Alexis (Anthony Perkins) in her husband Jules Dassin’s interesting but rather heavy-going, free 1962 movie […]