Ben Whishaw: the 21st century Tom Courtenay?
You might want to get your tickets now for the MCC Theater production of “The Pride” that starts performances off-Broadway next Wednesday. The show will mark the U.S. stage debut of 29-year-old English...
View ArticleThe angry, sexy books that inspired two landmark films
The paperback publisher Vintage has reissued two volumes by Alan Sillitoe — “Saturday Night and Sunday Morning” and “The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner” — that have strong connections to movie...
View Article‘Long Distance Runner’ returns via Warner Archive
The French New Wave of the early 1960s is still written about endlessly because the key directors of that movement, Jean-Luc Godard and Francois Truffaut, had such a major influence on Hollywood and...
View Article‘Our Mother’s House’: the return of a gothic gem
British director Jack Clayton was a major force in changing the direction of British filmmaking with his 1959 hit “Room at the Top.” The movie starring Laurence Harvey and Simone Signoret was blunter...
View ArticleWhen British movies changed everything
Manhattan’s indispensable Film Forum is launching another of its terrific special events on March 22, a two-week festival of 1960s era films from England that had a tremendous impact on Hollywood. “The...
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