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Director Edward Dmytryk makes the mistake of turning one of Graham Greene’s finest novels into a conventional Hollywood-ised romantic potboiler. Ideally cast Deborah Kerr is excellent as the wartime wife Sarah Miles who suffers Roman […]
Writer-director Neil Jordan’s 1999 movie is much better than the 1954 Hollywood-ised version (with Deborah Kerr and Van Johnson) and it’s an excellent and edgy though still not entirely satisfactory film of one of Graham Greene’s […]
Leonardo DiCaprio and Claire Danes play the star-crossed lovers and touch the heart in a glorious pop-video age version of the ever-popular William Shakespeare classic play. Director Baz Luhrmann’s 1996 delight is an utterly exhilarating, […]
Directly supervised by director Michael Cimino, the 2013 Director’s Cut and restoration of the 1980 infamous western Heaven’s Gate proves a revelation. He’s removed the intermission card and music, and made some judicious scene trims, bringing it […]