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i, ANNA

Veteran actress Charlotte Rampling is in great demand these days averaging three new movies a year.  Like fellow Brit Kirstin Scott Thomas, Ms Rampling successfully flits back and forth to Europe and is equally at home making both French and English movies.  It would be interesting to know what criteria she uses to make her … Continue reading

I, Daniel Blake

Now that veteran British filmmaker Ken Loach is 80 years old he keeps threatening that his latest movie will also be his last. We hope not as with I Daniel Blake he is not just back on form, but this is one of his best ever, born out by winning him his second Palme D’Or … Continue reading

I GIVE IT A YEAR

This new British romantic comedy from the Producers of the 1994 surprise mega-hit ‘Four Weddings & A Funeral’ starts where usually most others end i.e. with a lavish Church wedding.  After a fairly whirlwind courtship laid-back novelist Josh is marrying high-flying brand consultant Nat much to the slight disbelief of several of their friends and … Continue reading

I HAVE NEVER FORGOTTEN YOU : THE LIFE & LEGACY OF SIMON WIESENTHAL

Richard Trank’s 2007 profile on Simon Wiesenthal opens with a clip of a very young Barbara Walters repeating the same question on every journalist lips at the time ‘isn’t it time to forget?’ She’s asking this of Holocaust survivor Wiesenthal the intrepid hunter of Nazi War Criminals who would never ever give up his quest … Continue reading

I KNEW IT WAS YOU : REDISCOVERING JOHN CAZALE

In the 1970’s John Cazale starred in five motion pictures all of which were nominated for Best Picture Oscars (with 4 of them winning them). His co-stars were the heavyweights of the profession and between them they collected another 12 Oscars for their work in these classic movies, and in this HBO Documentary they lined … Continue reading

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