We didn’t plan this as a special, but two of our three films for review this week feature Barry Foster from the original series of Van Der Valk. See if you can guess which one doesn’t as we kick off with Akira Kurosawa’s 1949 Japanese film noir Stray Dog, then […]
Merchant Ivory
The French Lieutenant’s Woman: Parallel Lives, Parallel Loves (Review)
Shakespeare Wallah: Merchant Ivory Opulence missing a certain something (Review)
Made in 1965, Shakespeare Wallah was the second collaboration from Merchant Ivory and the first to really garner some international attention. Written by regular Merchant Ivory scribe Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, the film was one of the earliest English-language speaking roles for acclaimed Bollywood actor Shashi Kapoor and marked the screen […]