
London, summer 1923. Clarissa, MP Richard Dalloway’s wife, sets out on a beautiful morning Read More »
Tag Archives: UK
Fortini/Cani (1976) Danièle Huillet, Jean-Marie Straub, Franco Fortini, Luciana Nissim, Adriano Aprà

The film is a sort of presentation of Franco Fortini’s book ‘I Cani del Sinai’. Read More »
Cotton Mary (1999) Ismail Merchant, Greta Scacchi, Madhur Jaffrey, James Wilby

1954, the Malabar Coast. British and Anglo-Indian identities blur when an English-woman with a neglectful husband births a sickly baby. Read More »
A Town Like Alice (1956) Jack Lee, Virginia McKenna, Peter Finch, Kenji Takaki

In 1941, The advancing Japanese army captures a lot of British territory very quickly. Read More »
Night Was Our Friend (1951) Michael Anderson, Elizabeth Sellars, Michael Gough, Ronald Howard

Martin’s plane crashes in the jungle of Brazil. Nobody believes he survived. Read More »
Waterfront (1950) Michael Anderson, Robert Newton, Kathleen Harrison, Avis Scott

A good-for-nothing sailor walks out on his young family leaving them to fend for themselves in the Liverpool slums. Read More »
The Bandit of Zhobe (1959) John Gilling, Victor Mature, Anne Aubrey, Anthony Newley

Bandit of Zhobe is what actor Hans Conried once described as a “western in burnoose.” Read More »
Hamlet (1990) Franco Zeffirelli, Mel Gibson, Glenn Close, Alan Bates

Hamlet returns to Denmark when his father, the King, dies. His mother Gertrude has already married Hamlet’s uncle Claudius, the new King. Read More »
Spitfire (1942) Leslie Howard, David Niven, Rosamund John

By the late 1920’s aircraft designer R.J. Mitchell feels he has achieved all he wants Read More »
Mr. Denning Drives North (1951) Anthony Kimmins, John Mills, Phyllis Calvert, Eileen Moore

When well-off aircraft designer Denning finds his daughter’s current boyfriend is a nasty character Read More »