The Story of Esther Costello (movie 1957) review: Outlandish situations are everywhere in David Miller’s melodrama starring a stylish Joan Crawford and dapper Rossano Brazzi.
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Berserk (movie 1967) review: Joan Crawford shows that she could still command the action, seduce hunks half her age and look fabulous while parading around in fishnet leggings.
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Those looking for hints for the upcoming Academy Awards will be disappointed with the results of the pompous-sounding Orange British Academy of Film & Television Arts. (But check out images…
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Sex Education Film Class courtesy of the BFI + Glasgow Bette Davis Tribute and Woody Allen thriller + Evolution of Russian Cinema from Eisenstein to Sokurov.
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What are the BAFTA Awards? British cinema showcase or Hollywood-on-the-Thames? + David A. Grafton Academy honor for technological contributions.
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Joy Division movie tops British Independent Film Awards Dutch photographer-turned-filmmaker Anton Corbijn’s Control, a black-and-white drama about troubled Joy Division singer Ian Curtis, won five trophies – including best film,…
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Between Oct. 25–28, Aberystwyth’s National Library of Wales and the Aberystwyth Arts Centre will host the newly created film festival Fflics – Wales Screen Classics. Fflics will screen about 30…
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Paul Rudd: I Heart Huckabees on-set blow-up parody co-star (in the Lily Tomlin role). Paul Rudd & Max Showalter parody Lily Tomlin & David O. Russell I Heart Huckabees on-set…
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Julie Christie today: Critical praise for ‘Away from Her’ Julie Christie today in Away from Her. Via The [London] Guardian – Tim Adams’ “The divine Miss Julie” in The [London] Observer:…
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Jessie Matthews in the musical First a Girl: Victor Victoria precursor. The bfi is currently presenting a Jessie Matthews retrospective, which ends on March 11. From Richard Stirling’s bfi article: “Few stories…
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Venus with Peter O’Toole and Jodie Whittaker. There were numerous surprises at the 2006 British Independent Film Awards (Bifa) ceremony, which was held yesterday, Nov. 29, in West London. Out…
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Blow-Up (movie 1966) review: In his ‘Swinging London’ masterwork, Michelangelo Antonioni questions the perception of reality. David Hemmings and Vanessa Redgrave star.
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Jeremy Brock’s comedy-drama/road movie Driving Lessons, the story of how a Christian teenager finds inner freedom after becoming friends with a retired actress, is a moderately enjoyable coming-of-age story whose…
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The River 1951: Jean Renoir India-set classic. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will be presenting a restored print of Jean Renoir’s 1951 drama The River. Though largely…
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Gaslighting Abuse 21st-Century Style: George Cukor Classic thriller with Charles Boyer + Ingrid Bergman (already a remake of British film) is being remade.
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Ivor Novello: Gay Icon and 1 of Alfred Hitchcock first major stars and ‘Keep the Home Fires Burning’ composer remembered in Cardiff as The Rat.
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An American Haunting (movie 2005) review: (Faux) ‘real-life’ ghost story fails to mine its psychological and spooky possibilities. Rachel Hurd-Wood and Donald Sutherland star.
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Hotel Rwanda Movie: Facts or fiction in Rwandan genocide drama featuring Oskar-Schindler-like hero – Paul Rusebagina now himself a controversial figure.
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Margaretta Scott. Margaretta Scott: Things to Come & All Creatures Great and Small actress remembered Margaretta Scott, best remembered for playing the eccentric widow Mrs. Pumphrey in the BBC television…
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The British Academy Awards’ Oscar-focused new submission deadline rules have had unintended and ironically counterproductive consequences.
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Hotel Rwanda (movie 2004) review: A superb Don Cheadle stars as Kigali hotel manager Paul Rusesabagina in Terry George’s absurdly ‘uplifting’ genocide drama.
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Vera Drake (movie 2004) review: Imelda Staunton delivers a superb performance as a mid-1950s abortionist in Mike Leigh’s uneven socially conscious family drama.
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Stage Beauty (movie 2004) review: This less effusive rehash of the hit Shakespeare in Love fails to delve into the complexities of gender and sexual identity. Billy Crudup stars.
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What are the best British films of all time? Starring Michael Caine, Mike Hodges’ violent thriller Get Carter is critics’ surprise #1 choice, while women-focused titles are completely absent.
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About a Boy (movie 2002) review: Chris and Paul Weitz’s moralistic ‘family’ comedy stars Hugh Grant as a self-centered dude who tragically discovers his inner family man.
Oscar Nominations: Greed and murder + corruption and deception while Vanessa Redgrave bypassed + Julie Christie to break acting category record?
Hot Fuzz (movie 2007) review: This Edgar Wright and Simon Pegg collaboration is a riotously funny and unusually creative spoof of the myriad American buddy movies.
Academy Awards: Mexicans Invade the Oscars and the British are back in one of most international Oscars in history while Pedro Almodóvar shockingly snubbed.
Directed by first-time filmmaker Julian Jarrold from a screenplay by Geoff Deane and Calendar Girls co-screenwriter Tim Firth, Kinky Boots is officially a fictional motion picture inspired by a true…
What’s European? Is Best British Film winner sufficiently ‘Euro’? + research on cold-blooded killers & child trafficking drama top Gothams + Stockholm.
Michael Winterbottom’s sexually explicit movie 9 Songs has been approved for release in Australia – uncut. Kieran O’Brien and Margot Stilley play lovers and rock concert aficionados.
9 Songs’ sex scenes have not prevented the British Board of Film Classification from granting Michael Winterbottom’s romantic drama an ’18 certificate’ rating. Some are outraged.