[amazon_link asins=’B0788XVV6B’ template=’ProductAd’ store=’moviegazett03-20′ marketplace=’US’ link_id=’ddbd7625-36b2-11e8-b212-e1e2731f4d19′]Regarded by many as director Ken Russell’s (Lisztomania) greatest film, Women in Love is a bold adaptation of the classic D.H. Lawrence novel that, when released in 1969, both pushed the limits of what actors…
[amazon_link asins=’B077687NXT’ template=’ProductAd’ store=’moviegazett03-20′ marketplace=’US’ link_id=’aefbc0d9-3545-11e8-9b73-3fc2be6089f3′]Curtis Harrington is another name in a long a list of directors with links to Roger Corman. In 1961, Harrington made the low-budget, independent mermaid film Night Tide, and then was employed by Corman to…
[amazon_link asins=’B07885CY3T’ template=’ProductAd’ store=’moviegazett03-20′ marketplace=’US’ link_id=’c6af7157-3119-11e8-9a67-f5d983d3c315′]Coco–Pixar’s first non-sequel film since 2015’s The Good Dinosaur—tells a heartwarming story about the importance of family, while delivering the eye-popping visuals we’ve come to expect. Set in a small Mexican village, 12-year-old Miguel Rivera…
[amazon_link asins=’B0794XYM5W’ template=’ProductAd’ store=’moviegazett03-20′ marketplace=’US’ link_id=’1aa58385-2a13-11e8-ab51-63093bf66997′]Based on the Ross MacDonald novel The Moving Target, is a star-driven Paul Newman, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof) neo-noir. Released in 1966, The film was a solid hit, grossing nearly $12 million in…
[amazon_link asins=’B077TQNHF1′ template=’ProductAd’ store=’moviegazett03-20′ marketplace=’US’ link_id=’8a3d0d31-287d-11e8-b31a-df5f1a59ff92′]I, Tonya the latest film from director Craig Gillespie (Lars and the Real Girl), is based on the life of former U.S. figure skater Tonya Harding. A two-time Olympian, Harding is best known for her…
[amazon_link asins=’B07894H9GD’ template=’ProductAd’ store=’moviegazett03-20′ marketplace=’US’ link_id=’dbe33730-255c-11e8-9667-937e700d0446′]Winner of the 1993 Oscar for Best Foreign Film, I first saw Belle Époque in a 1994 college film class. While the movie also served as my introduction to Penelope Cruz, I remember being far…
Released in the spring of 1971, Summer of ’42 is screenwriter Herman Raucher’s vividly realized memories of the summer on Nantucket Island when he lost his virginity. A coming-of-age story, it’s a trip back to another time, when the world…
[amazon_link asins=’B077Y6RBZP’ template=’ProductAd’ store=’moviegazett03-20′ marketplace=’US’ link_id=’b71f3743-1bef-11e8-a8a1-078e5a668a21′]Billionaire Howard Hughes wanted to make a new kind of Western–one that was sexy and did away with all the old genre clichés. Taking the directorial reigns himself (with some uncredited help from Howard Hawks),…
[amazon_link asins=’B077Y3QTS5′ template=’ProductAd’ store=’moviegazett03-20′ marketplace=’US’ link_id=’6dfcf6d6-110a-11e8-b7a8-8de5a9e57dc2′]Set in South Africa when Apartheid was the rule of law, The Wilby Conspiracy stars Sidney Poitier as a revolutionary, and Michael Caine as a mining engineer, on the run from the South African military…
[amazon_link asins=’B078J5WDKC’ template=’ProductAd’ store=’moviegazett03-20′ marketplace=’US’ link_id=’e8e651e3-0f87-11e8-8813-4d74d61cb7da’]A modest success at the time of its release, The Hanging Tree (1959) is now largely considered a superior entry into the then fading western genre. It also marked one of the finest performances of…