Mike's Movie Projector

ANTHONY HARVEY (1930-2917), aged 87. Harvey directed one of our perennial favourites THE LION IN WINTER in 1968, I remember seeing it at the old Odeon Haymarkt in London, where the sight of Qu...

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Our 2017 season of STRICTLY COME DANCING is coming to a close, with the semi-final this weekend. Here are three sizzlers from last week's Musicals theme. We expect these three to be in the fina...

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SOME OF OUR FAVOURITES: Vitti, Stamp & Losey during MODESTY  BLAISE, Dirk and Ingrid when she was his house-guest in 1965 (Eve  Arnold photo), Marlon visits Marilyn at 20th Ce...

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I realised the other day I had never seen Henri-George Clouzot's 1953 classic THE WAGES OF FEAR, that highly regarded thriller about the four desperate men driving two trucks of dangerous exp...

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In the aftermath of World War I in 1919 Germany, Anna notice a stranger placing flowers on the grave of her fiance, Frantz. She now lives with Frantz's parents,  (a doctor who refuses to treat...

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An investment for those long winter nights is a reasonably priced boxset of all 12 BBC Miss Marple stories featuring Joan Hickson as the intrepid detective of that perfect 1950s English village ...

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We we sorry too to hear of the death of childrens' graphic books writer and illustrator JILL BARKLEM, at the early age of 66. I have long enjoyed her series of books of BRAMBLY HEDGE with th...

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RODNEY BEWES (1937-2017), aged 79.   Distinctive-looking British actor, best known for THE LIKELY LADS (1964-1966) and WHATEVER HAPPENED TO THE LIKELY LADS? (1973-1974) which captured the a...

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Now the festival season is over and winter settling in, the new Award Season should be underway for the next Oscar ballyhoo in February. Three I particularly want to see are the new Luca Guadagn...

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I have written about these here several times, so no need to rehash them again, but its been a lot of fun revisiting QUENTIN DURWARD, JUSTINE and SANDRA ..... see labels for previous comments. ...

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One of those little seen now adventure movies the studios churned out in the 1950s, usually teaming two stars (like John Wayne and Lana Turner in THE SEA CHASE, also 1955) and featuring exoti...

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Like Desmond Davis (below) Clive Donner (1926-2010) also seems under-rated but directed a clutch of interesting films and tv movies during the 1960s, starting with THE SECRET PLACE, a 1957 Belin...

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Now in his 90s (born in 1926) Desmond Davis is surely one of Britain's most neglected film directors, who had a good run in the 1960s, and directed that original star-heavy (led by Olivier, Magg...

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Julie Christie of course, and below: Brigitte Bardot, circa 1955, and a guy - me, in 1966 .... thankfully the tube is more modern now, even if  more overcrowded. 

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Jenny Bowman or Jenny Stewart, that is. Both are legendary Broadway divas, very used to getting their own way.  Joan Crawford is Jenny Stewart and TORCH SONG is Joan's first in colour, in 19...

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74 TOMORROW, HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO OUR ICON (WHOM I MET IN 1972, WHEN WE WERE BOTH IN OUR TWENTIES, AS PER PREVIOUS REPORTS AT LABEL), JONI MITCHELL, WE TRUST SHE  IS IMPROVING AND KEEPING WELL....

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IT SOUNDS LIKE ALL MY CLUBBING NIGHTS ROLLED INTO ONE!

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Given my penchant for  1940s British movies, both of the war years and that grim post-war era, its surprising I never saw WATERLOO ROAD before. Its a 1944 Gainsborough gem set around Waterlo...

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TODAY: SANDWICH BARS The evolution of London into the new metropolis continues with the rise of all those new eateries and trendy new restaurants and foodie destinations like BOROUGH MARKET, ...

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Slight reservations about the massive Netflix series THE CROWN, Series 1 is now a 4 dvd pack (10 one-hour long episodes), as they film Series 2.  One can see the quality and the interesting ...

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Its a weekend with THE QUIET MAN - John Ford's immortal piece of Irish whimsy from 1952. No matter how many times I have seen it (quite a lot since I was a kid) it always comes up fresh. All th...

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DANIELLE DARRIEUX (1917-2017), aged 100. Madame Darrieux, one of France's premier stars clocked up 140 credits, including several classics. I first saw her as Richard Burton's mother Olympias i...

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GLORIA GRAHAM (1923-1981) is being celebrated by a two-part season at London's BFI.  The season will tie in with the release of FILM STARS DON'T DIE IN LIVERPOOL (Paul McGuigan, 2017), about...

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Here's a doozy for lovers of lists and thrillers. The British Film Institute has come up with 100 listed alphabetically. See them all at the link:  http://www.bfi.org.uk/thriller/100-thriller...

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She really was the most photographed woman ever, and this stunning new tome THE ESSENTIAL MARILYN MONROE with 280 full page photographs covers only 1953 to early 1957. There have been other gr...

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