Peggy Ashcroft Articles
New York Film Critics Awards: Oscar Precursors, Yes; Snooty and Artsy, No
Julianne Moore, Far from Heaven For decades, the New York Film Critics Circle Awards have been considered a precursor of the Academy Awards. Movies, performers, directors — and later cinematographers and screenwriters — singled out by the NYFCC usually have gone on to receive Oscar nominations, oftentimes the golden statuette itself. The New York critics awards also have the reputation of being "snooty" and "artsy." [...]
A PASSAGE TO INDIA Review – Judy Davis, Peggy Ashcroft, Victor Banerjee d: David Lean
A PASSAGE TO INDIA (1984) Direction: David Lean Cast: Judy Davis, Victor Banerjee, Peggy Ashcroft, Alec Guinness, Nigel Havers, James Fox, Richard Wilson, Saeed Jaffrey, Roshan Seth Screenplay: David Lean; from E. M. Forster's 1924 novel and Santha Rama Rau's 1960 play Oscar Movies Recommended Judy Davis, A Passage to India Synopsis: In the early 20th century, Miss Quested (Judy Davis) and her soon-to-be mother-in-law, [...]
Alfred Hitchcock's British Thrillers at LACMA
Dame May Whitty, Margaret Lockwood, Michael Redgrave in The Lady Vanishes (top); Robert Donat in The 39 Steps (bottom) On Nov. 27-28, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art will present the last four films in its "Hitchcock: The British Thrillers" series. They are: The 39 Steps (1935), starring Robert Donat and Madeleine Carroll; Number 17 (1932), featuring the now-forgotten John Stuart and Anne Grey; [...]