Paul Schrader’s 1990 film, The Comfort of Strangers, is an adaptation of Ian McEwan’s 1981 novel of the same name and boasts a screenplay by Harold Pinter. It tells the story of an attractive, middle-class British couple named Mary and Colin (Natasha Richardson and Rupert Everett) who have arrived in […]
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Eye of the Needle (1981) Rescue Under Fire (2017): Two War Reviews
The Knack… and How to Get It (1965) caprice and candyfloss with a dark undercurrent (Review)
Separate Tables (1963) sophisticated fun save for some inadvertent unpleasantness
One of the main extras on the BFI’s new dual-format reissue of Separate Tables is an archive commentary by director Delbert Mann, who died in 2007. Mann is still probably best known for his Oscar-winning 1955 debut Marty, but he’d worked extensively in television beforehand. Back then the medium was […]
A Taste of Honey (1961) Tom Jones (1963) & The Children’s Hour (1961) (Review)
The Loneliness of a Long Distance Runner (1962) one of the greatest endings to a film ever (Review)
Based on Alan Sillitoe’s 1959 first-person short story of the same name, The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner was an obvious choice for Woodfall Films following the success they had had with a previous adaptation of a Sillitoe novel; Saturday Night and Sunday Morning. It tells the story of […]