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It’s the 82-year-old Michael Caine’s best role and best piece of serious acting in years, triumphing over risky and weirdly eccentric casting against type as retired classical composer and orchestra conductor Fred Ballinger. He is enjoying a Swiss […]
Director Gabriele Muccino’s heart-tugger is an old-fashioned women’s film, done with plenty of confidence and expertise but unfortunately not enough skill. With a good, expert cast, the talent’s all there, but there are gaping holes throughout the […]
The 1968 sci-fi film Barbarella stars Jane Fonda as the title space traveller sent to find Durand Durand (Milo O’Shea), who has created a weapon that could destroy humanity. ‘I want to make something beautiful […]
Happily and delightfully, the 1967 comedy film Barefoot in the Park preserves the star pairing of the young Jane Fonda and Robert Redford for ever. ‘Paul, I think I’m gonna be a lousy wife. But […]
The 1981 film triumph On Golden Pond was the winner of three Oscars: for Best Actor (Henry Fonda), Best Actress (Katharine Hepburn), and Best Adapted Screenplay (for screenwriter Ernest Thompson). Director Mark Rydell’s triple-Oscar-winning 1981 […]
Director Elliot Silverstein’s likeable, raucously amusing 1965 spoof Western stars Jane Fonda as the titular Cat (Catherine) Ballou, a schoolmarm turned outlaw and Lee Marvin in dual roles as Kid Shelleen and Tim Strawn, the cinema’s most […]
Jane Fonda and Jon Voight won Oscars for Best Actress and Best Actor for the high-impact 1978 American romantic war drama film Coming Home. A third Oscar went to Best Original Screenplay. Bruce Dern and Penelope Milford were nominated […]