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French film-maker Laurent Cantet won the Palme d’Or in Cannes in 2008 for his moving and humorous school-set film The Class [Entre Les Murs]. Laurent Cantet’s 2008 Cannes Palme d’Or-winning school-set film The Class [Entre […]
In his most ambitious film, the 1987 Chinese drama King of the Children [Háizǐ Wáng], Chen Kaige examines the topics of learning and creativity through the experiences of a rebellious young man assigned to teach children […]
The 1982 Australian horror film Next of Kin was featured in the documentary Not Quite Hollywood where it was praised by Quentin Tarantino, comparing its pacing and atmosphere to those in The Shining. Director Tony […]
Director Alf Sjöberg’s 1944 Swedish drama Frenzy [Hets] [Torment] stars Stig Järrel, Alf Kjellin and Mai Zetterling, and won the Grand Prix at the 1946 Cannes Film Festival. Ingmar Bergman wrote the screenplay, is an […]
Producer-director Samuel Goldwyn Jr’s 1964 black and white romance film The Young Lovers is a feeble, over-familiar college drama, though amiable young Peter Fonda and Sharon Hugueny try to make us care about a pair […]
The compelling 1962 British realist drama film Term of Trial is about a student (Sarah Miles) who develops a crush on her schoolteacher (Laurence Olivier), leading him into serious trouble. ‘I always knew she was […]
Director Elliott Nugent’s 1942 Warner Bros black and white screwball comedy The Male Animal delightfully pairs Henry Fonda and Olivia de Havilland, actors usually more at home in serious dramas. Fonda stars as Tommy Turner, a […]