Madame Bovary (1949) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast
.. Vincente Minnelli’s film faced a singular problem: Gustave Flaubert’s book, the pinnacle of the 19th Century realistic novel, is …
Based on Novel
I’ll Get You For This (1950) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast
Middling George Raft vehicle plays like washed out noir (would that then be gris?), based on a James Hadley Chase …
The Andromeda Strain (1970) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast
. Patronised upon release, one of Robert Wise’s best late-period films now stands firmly as a seminal work: in melding …
The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast
.Albert Lewin’s adaptation of Oscar Wilde is admirable and a failure for roughly the same reasons: it refuses to be …
Ragtime (1981) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast
. E.L. Doctorow’s great novel tore through its chosen window in American history like a pep-pill-stuffed jitterbugger; Milos Forman’s film …
Ivanhoe (1952) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast
. A largely unsung classic of Hollywood swash’n’buckle, Ivanhoe manages to be both superior to the draggy, arcane Walter Scott …
The Last Tycoon (1976) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast
. Elia Kazan, the premiere aesthete of obvious pseudo-naturalism, and F. Scott Fitzgerald, the quintessential moony romantic of American letters, …
The Painted Veil (2006) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast
An adaptation of Somerset Maugham, and apparent labour of love for producer-star Edward Norton, it’s both intriguing and intelligent, but …
Bend of the River (1952) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast
Anthony Mann was possibly second only to Akira Kurosawa in the ranks of filmmakers with a sense of tactile relationship …
Hotel du Nord (1938) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast
A fine Marcel Carné film from the age of fullest flowering for the poetic-realist movement. But it’s also not of …
