The British New Wave (or “kitchen sink drama movement”) was an innovative, but brief cinematic movement during the late fifties and early sixties. These films, usually in black and white, focused on class and social issues. Billy Liar directed by…
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Closing in on their 45th anniversary, Kate (Charlotte Rampling) and Geoff (Tom Courtenay) are busily making preparations to mark what promises to be happy occasion. However, just days before the party, their lives take an unexpected turn. A letter from…
An English language film about World War II told from the German perspective, The Night of the Generals isn’t about combat, but murder. Based loosely on a novel of the same name by German author Hans Hellmut Kirst. Due to…
Though sweet and predictable, the talented cast’s affable charm makes Quartet impossible to pass up. More than forty-five years after becoming a star on the heels of his role as Benjamin Braddock in The Graduate, Dustin Hoffman finally makes his…
Fresh of the success of Lawrence of Arabia, British director David Lean tackled another epic; Doctor Zhivago based on the Nobel Prize winning novel by Boris Pasternak. After what he viewed as the action-adventure tone of Lawrence of Arabia, Lean…