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Producer Alexander Korda and director Julien Duvivier’s 1948 British remake of the 1935 Greta Garbo Hollywood success based on Leo Tolstoy’s classic novel Anna Karenina is appealing enough but not quite another triumph. Unfortunately, the famous […]
Producer David O Selznick and director Clarence Brown work over Leo Tolstoy’s great 1877 novel as a 1935 big studio movie vehicle for the great Greta Garbo as Anna Karenina, the young wife of the […]
David Lean’s lovingly made 1965 movie version of Boris Pasternak’s great Russian novel Doctor Zhivago stars Omar Sharif as the Moscow doctor and poet Yuri Zhivago, who is embroiled in the Russian revolution and parted […]
Directors Don Bluth and Gary Goldman’s 1997 animated feature Anastasia is a rather feeble, none too specially animated musical feature film retelling of the famous story. Despite all the talent involved, it proves an awkward […]
Playwright/ screenwriter Julian Mitchell’s extremely fine, provocative, award-winning 1981 London West End theatre hit gay stage play Another Country happily is filmed retaining its exciting young stars Rupert Everett and Colin Firth from the London run. […]
Director Mimi Leder’s 1997 movie is an exciting, intelligent, well-crafted, thinking person’s action thriller. George Clooney and Nicole Kidman star as an American army colonel, Special Operations Intelligence Officer Lt. Col. Thomas Devoe, and a civilian […]
In 2002 Ben Affleck takes over Harrison Ford’s old part of CIA man Jack Ryan in director Phil Alden Robinson’s ultra-tense, ambitious, nail-biting action blockbuster, adapted from the work of Tom Clancy. The end of […]