Showing posts with label Valentines. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Valentines. Show all posts
Sunday, 27 November 2016

Un Autre Homme, Une Autre Chance, 1977

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Time for another look at Claude Leouch's 1977 western: This is my original review in 2010: ANOTHER MAN ANOTHER CHANCE  - Not really F...
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Sunday, 20 November 2016

Plan B

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Many thanks to Colin for this treat. Bruno is dumped by his girlfriend; behind a calm, indifferent expression, his mind plans a cold, s...
Sunday, 9 October 2016

Jeanne and the perfect guy

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Another French flick we had not heard of here in the UK, as presumably it never played here. I would have heard of it or read about it an...
Saturday, 9 April 2016

Persuasion, Persuasion, Persuasion ...

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I have just enjoyed the 1995 BBC production of Jane Austen's  PERSUASION (left)   once again, its a real film (by Roger Michell, of the ...
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Monday, 15 February 2016

Mitchell Leisen, Hollywood Director

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" Mitchell Leisen, Hollywood Director " first published in 1973 and reprinted in 1995, by David Chierichetti, is a fascinating ...
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Friday, 23 October 2015

New Dr Zhivago trailer

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A confession: I have never seen DR ZHIVAGO at the cinema, or all the way through on television - though I have the DVD for all those ext...
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Monday, 19 October 2015

Ingrid, Gary, Flora - still of the day

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Its SARATOGA TRUNK of course, filmed in 1943 but not released until 1945 when Ingrid Bergman was at the height of her 1940s popularity. ...
Friday, 21 August 2015

My very favourite film

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Take the usual ingredients: a wilful heroine, an unconventional leading man, supporting characters we like and want to see more of, mix in...
Friday, 22 May 2015

Its a penny serenade in 1941

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George Stevens' PENNY SERENADE from 1941 is one Cary Grant-Irene Dunne film I had not seen before, I love them in THE AWFUL TRUTH i...
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Wednesday, 22 April 2015

Return to Tiffanys ....

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It is always a mistake to tune in to a screening of BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY'S . as - no matter how many times one has seen it, one will ...
Saturday, 14 February 2015

Valentines: Lets Not Make Love / Desk Set

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One of our Sky channels here has been running Valentine's Day movies on one of its channels, so cue a lot of old favourites - I may...
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Monday, 19 January 2015

Its back: Two For The Road

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Bliss to have TWO FOR THE ROAD out on dual-format Blu-Ray - it looks even more marvellous. This is what I wrote on it back in 2012: A r...
Sunday, 18 January 2015

Sunday in New York + 4 more Jane Fonda flicks

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A feast of Fonda, lately - Jane that is. I just got SUNDAY IN NEW YORK , and my pal Jerry passed 4 of hers onto me recently.   Then, KLUTE ...
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