Showing posts with label Michael York. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Michael York. Show all posts
Sunday, 19 November 2017

Revisiting old favourites ...

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I have written about these here several times, so no need to rehash them again, but its been a lot of fun revisiting QUENTIN DURWARD, JUST...
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Sunday, 12 November 2017

Under-rated directors: Clive Donner

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Like Desmond Davis (below) Clive Donner (1926-2010) also seems under-rated but directed a clutch of interesting films and tv movies during ...
Sunday, 2 April 2017

Still of the day ...

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Two of our favourite blondes : Faye and Michael - Dunaway and York that is, in Richard Lester's all-star extravaganza THE FOUR MUSKET...
Saturday, 11 June 2016

Unnecessary remakes: Great Expectations, 1974

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I have just read Kenneth Branagh is directing (and playing Poirot) in a new MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS - who needs another one? The 1974 ...
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Friday, 1 April 2016

Bad Movies We Love: Justine

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The little-seen JUSTINE  from 1969 is one of those 'literary' 20th Century Fox movies - from the Laurence Durrell book, set in Al...
Tuesday, 23 February 2016

'60s British cinema: Dirk, Losey, Accident, again

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Nice to see ACCIDENT on television again - thanks, Talking Pictures. Been a few years since I last saw it, though the dvd is filed away - w...
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Monday, 24 August 2015

10 great nights at the theatre

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OK, so its more than 10 .... some choice plums from decades of shows. A MONTH IN THE COUNTRY - Turgenev's play has current productio...
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Thursday, 13 August 2015

To be or not to be ....

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Alas, poor Benedict, as HAMLET -mania grips the city. Back in the '60s and '70s and '80s we went to HAMLET s regularly withou...
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Wednesday, 24 June 2015

Anouk and 1960s glamour ...

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I have not featured French actress Anouk Aimee here for a while, she is certainly another favourite whom I like in so many films, particu...
Friday, 19 September 2014

Some eye-catching posters - an occasional series

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Friday, 29 November 2013

The Anouk look

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There is hardly a more glamorous couple in movies than Anouk Aimee and Marcello Mastroianni in LA DOLCE VITA - did Anouk pioneer that sun...
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Sunday, 22 September 2013

News round-up: Elton, Jacobi, Jasmine, bad reviews, Vanessa, Downton Tabby, A Single Man again ...

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Sliding into mid-autumn already here, at least the 2 pigeons who live in the tree in the garden are still around ... Sirs Elton and J...
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