Mar 15, 2025
Dir: Roy William Neill | Cast: Basil Rathbone, Miles Mandar, Evelyn Ankers | Drama, 1944, 69’
Possibly the most fondly recalled of Universal's Sherlock Holmes adaptations. Directed with his usual casual excellence...
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Mar 6, 2025
Dir.: Claude Lelouch; Cast: Anouk Aimee, Jean-Louis Trintignant | France 1966 | 102'
Claude Lelouch (*1937) has so far 59 credits as a director. But before and after Un Homme et...
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Mar 5, 2025
Richard Chatten looks at three film interpretations of the famous 1910 novel by Gaston Leroux
Phantom of the Opera (1925)
Dir: Robert Julian | Cast: Lon Chaney, Mary Philbin, Norman Kerry
Although serving...
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Feb 27, 2025
Dir/Wri: Bernhard Wenger. Austria/Germany | 102'
The popular saying ‘to thine own self be true’ lies at the heart of this cynical comedy psychodrama from Austrian filmmaker Bernhard Wenger. If you...
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Feb 24, 2025
Dir.: James Ivory | Writer: James Ivory, Kit Hesketh-Harvey | Cast: James Wilby, Hugh Grant, Rupert Graves, Phoebe Nicholls, Ben Kingsley, Denham Elliot; UK 1987, 140 min.
James Ivory’s second E.M....
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Feb 20, 2025
Dir: Jeremy Summers | UK Drama
John LeMesurier later recalled this as both the happiest and the saddest film he ever made. Happy because filming in Bognor was such a pleasure;...
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Feb 15, 2025
Dir: Vincente Minellli | Cast: Lauren Bacall, Gregory Peck | US Comedy 118’
Despite the use throughout of interior monologues, in the year of '12 Angry Men' the screenplay incredibly won...
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Feb 12, 2025
Director: David Lean | Scr: Anthony Havelock-Allan, Ronald Neame Cast: Celia Johnson, Trevor Howard, Stanley Holloway, Joyce Carey | 88' | Romantic Drama | UK
What makes BRIEF ENCOUNTER such a classic English...
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Feb 10, 2025
Dir: John Schlesinger | UK Comedy
The joker in the pack of John Schlesinger's filmography, for whom this legendary financial disaster marked a strange venture into territory better suited to...
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