Cadillac Records (2008) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast
More a mosaic of a time and place than a bio-pic, and perhaps all the better for it, Cadillac Records …
Biopic
Madame Curie (1943) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast
Happy recollections of a movie slightly disappointed: distinctly overlong and terribly mushy in its first third, Curie takes a long …
The Password Is Courage (1962) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast
. Predating, anticipating, and in some ways outdoing The Great Escape, for both detail and comic value extracted from the …
Eight Miles High (Das Wilde Leben, 2007) Movie Review & Film summary,Cast
. Well-directed but utterly shallow biography of ’60s model, hanger-on, and faux-radical Uschi Obermaier, who flees her home town and …
Mrs Parker and the Vicious Circle (1994) Movie Review & Film summary,Cast
. Just as shapeless, morbid, and spurious as many another bio-pic – but I liked it. Alan Rudolph’s gossamer, Altman-esque …
The Story of Louis Pasteur (1935) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast
. A cunning work, Louis Pasteur probably did more than any other sound film to define the biopic. Its plot …
