Dir.: Tony Palmer; Cast: Ben Kingsley, Sherry Baines, Magdalen Asquith, Mark Asquith, Terence Rigby, Ronald Pickup, John Shrapnel, Robert Stephens; UK 1987/8, 151'. British director Tony Palmer (Bird on a Wire)...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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....

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;...

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...

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...