
Joseph Haydn is the composer whom Mozart and Beethoven revered, yet he is too often overshadowed by his younger contemporaries. Read More »
Tag Archives: UK
The House of Mirth (2000) Terence Davies, Gillian Anderson, Dan Aykroyd, Eleanor Bron

Terence Davies’ The House of Mirth is a tragic love story set against a background Read More »
Lady of Vengeance (1957) Burt Balaban, Dennis O’Keefe, Ann Sears, Anton Diffring

A man hires a killer to avenge an innocent girl’s death. Read More »
Rhinoceros (1974) Tom O’Horgan, Zero Mostel, Gene Wilder, Karen Black

Originally an absurdist play by Eugene Ionesco, Rhinoceros tells the story of a French town plagued by rhinoceroses. Read More »
Tonite Let’s All Make Love in London (1967) Peter Whitehead, Alan Aldridge, Julie Christie, David Hockney

Peter Whitehead’s disjointed Swinging London documentary, subtitled “A Pop Concerto,” comprises a number of different “movements,” Read More »
Fools of Fortune (1990) Pat O’Connor

This an intensely moving story of young love set in 1918 rural Ireland. Read More »
Man on the Run (1949) Lawrence Huntington, Joan Hopkins, Derek Farr, Edward Chapman

An Army deserter, still a fugitive in Post-War Britain, wanders into a pawn-shop robbery and finds himself wanted for murder. Read More »
Rattle of a Simple Man (1964) Muriel Box, Harry H. Corbett, Diane Cilento, Thora Hird

When a group of northern soccer fans are down in London for the Cup Final Read More »
The Servant (1963) Joseph Losey, Dirk Bogarde, Sarah Miles, Wendy Craig

The aristocratic Tony moves to London and hires the servant Hugo Barrett for all services at home. Read More »
Night Without Stars (1951) Anthony Pelissier, David Farrar, Nadia Gray, Maurice Teynac

A partially blind Englishman retires to the French Riviera. Read More »