THE LADYKILLERS (StudioCanal). William Rose’s black comedy, much blacker than I had remembered, directed by Alexander Mackendrick, was the last of the much-loved Ealing Comedies of the 1950’s. The lad ...
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I saw Diana Leblanc’s production on stage at The Festival Theatre, Stratford, Ontario, Canada in the mid-1990s. This performance is a filmed version of that production. It’s great to see the actors’ f ...
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The courtesan, with a heart of gold, nobly sacrificing herself for the man she loves and dying of consumption, is the very stuff of which romantic dramas are made. La Traviata (The Fallen Woman) was a ...
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BREATHLESS (StudioCanal). Jean-Luc Godard’s first feature, A Bout de Souffle, released in 1960, was a key French film in the nouvelle vague/new wave movement. Highly influential, it broke all the rule ...
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