In the last ever episode of the ‘Monocle Arts Review’, Robert Bound is joined by writer Lucy Jones and Toby Earle, TV editor for ‘The Evening Standard’ and London Live, to discuss some of the latest films and series to hit… 23 Mar 2018 Films on-screen and art to be seen Film ...
STANLEY KAUFFMANN ON FILMS: Some London Lives.Reviews the motion pictures "Being Julia," directed by Istvan Svabo and starring Annette Bening and Jeremy Irons, and "Vera Drake," directed by Mike Leigh and starring Imelda Staunton.Kauffmann
In London, McDonagh and his elder brother, John Michael McDonagh, attended Roman Catholic schools, where most of the students and faculty were of Irish descent. He spent many of his childhood summers with his family in the Connemara region on the west coast of Ireland, where his father was...
Walter Lee (Sidney Poitier) wants to make a business investment, while his mother, Lena (Claudia McNeil), is intent on buying a house for them all to live in -- two differing views of the American Dream. Released: 1961 Directed by: Daniel Petrie Also ranks #5 on The Best Sidney ...
so they're not going to be easy to read. With that lot on top form, Alfredson might have been forgiven for just pointing the camera at them and giving up, but in fact he crafts a grimy, distinctly '70s London in muted tones and dim shadows and gives the whole thing a sheen of un...
Made in 1972- post-movie sanctions, he was able to get away with much more explicit content. A neck-tie murderer, who also rapes his female victims, is on the loose in London. In the opening sequence, we see a dead woman floating in the Thames River during broad daylight, nude, excep...
The story sees Miss Giddens (Deborah Kerr) become governess to two children who live in a sprawling country pile and are the wards of an absent uncle (Michael Redgrave) who lives in London. As Miss Giddens spots ghosts and becomes convinced of the kids’ malevolence, it’s the ambiguity ...
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And the sing-along jingle to the tune of the classic children’s song, “London Bridge is Falling”, encouraging children to buy the masks, is superb. Though the story does not work- the subject does contain a throwback to science fiction films of yesteryear- most notably, highly resembling...
This one tells the story of a dressmaker (Daniel Day-Lewis) in 1950s London who falls for a young waitress (Vicky Krieps). That might sound like a potentially boring narrative, but Phantom Thread is actually masterfully-shot. It's also a poignant exploration of what it means to be an ...