Posted by Leon Nicholson on February 15, 2013 · Leave a Comment
Fifty Shades of Cinema continues with Jonathon Dabell taking a look at The Wicker Man starring Edward Woodward and Christopher Lee.
The Contenders
Choosing a no.1 film from the wealth of cinematic quality in 1973 is no easy task. Crime dramas are well represented by the likes of Mean Streets, Serpico, Badlands and The Long Goodbye; westerns by Peckinpah’s superb Pat Garrett And Billy The Kid and Eastwood’s haunting High Plains Drifter; even the... Read More
Filed under Features, Films, Front Page, Reviews · Tagged with Amarcord, American Graffiti, Anthony Shaffer, Badlands, Barbara Streisand, Britt Ekland, Christopher Lee, Clint Eastwood, Day Of The Jackal, Diane Cilento, Don't Look Now, Donald Sutherland, Edward Fox, Edward Woodward, Enter The Dragon, Federico Fellini, High Plains Drifter, Irene Sunters, Jack Lemmon, Jeff Bridges, Linda Blair, Lindsay Anderson, Malcolm McDowell, Mean Streets, O Lucky Man!, Papillon, Pat Garrett And Billy The Kid, Paul Newman, Paul Verhoeven, Robert Redford, Robin Hardy, Sam Peckinpah, Save The Tiger, Serpico, Sleeper, Steve McQueen, The Exorcist, The Last American Hero, The Long Goodbye, The Sting, The Way We Were, The Wicker Man, Turkish Delight, Woody Allen
Posted by Leon Nicholson on July 1, 2012 · Leave a Comment
Continuing the series of Talkin’ Oldies, FMV’s Simon Collings takes a look at Play it Again, Sam directed by Herbert Ross and starring Woody Allen.
Although not quite up there with the likes of Annie Hall (1977) & Manhattan (1979), Play It Again, Sam (1972) is the hidden gem in a series of early films from writer/director Woody Allen. Based on his own Broadway play, Allen stars as a man obsessed with the movie Casablanca (1942) and the character... Read More
Filed under Features, Films, Front Page, Reviews · Tagged with American Pie, Annie Hall, Bananas, Casablanca, Diane Keaton, Herbert Ross, Jennifer Salt, Jerry Lacy, Manhattan, Play It Again, Sam, Sleeper, Take the Money and Run, Tony Roberts, Woody Allen
