Posted by Leon Nicholson on May 17, 2013 · Leave a Comment
Fifty Shades of Cinema continues with Jonathon Dabell looking at a Woody Allen classic, Hannah and her Sisters starring Mia Farrow, Dianne Weist and Michael Caine.
The Contenders
There are a good few contenders for Film Of The Year 1986, starting with James Cameron’s Aliens, which continues the story of Sigourney Weaver’s adventures against the creature (now creatures) first encountered in the Ridley Scott original. It’s a good year all-round... Read More
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Posted by Leon Nicholson on May 10, 2013 · Leave a Comment
Fifty Shades of Cinema continues with Jonathon Dabell looking at Woody Allen’s The Purple Rose of Cairo starring Mia Farrow and Danny Aiello.
The Contenders
1985 throws up some strong contenders for Film Of The Year. Michael J. Fox plays Marty McFly for the first time in the delightfully clever time travel comedy-adventure Back To The Future; at the other end of the generational spectrum, a bunch of elderly retirees are given a new lease of... Read More
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Posted by Leon Nicholson on April 19, 2013 · Leave a Comment
Fifty Shades of Cinema continues with Jonathon Dabell looking at Fitzcarraldo starring Klaus Kinski and Claudia Cardinale.
The Contenders
1982 proves another year of bona fide cinematic gems, and the task of choosing one film greater than the rest is fraught with difficulty. Dustin Hoffman stars in the wonderful gender-bending comedy Tootsie; Harrison Ford pursues rogue replicants in the visually sumptuous Blade Runner; Arnold Schwarzenegger avenges... Read More
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Posted by Leon Nicholson on March 29, 2013 · Leave a Comment
With appearances in TV shows including ITV’s The Fixer, Bradford’s Jason Croot is certainly making a name for himself. He spoke to Leon Nicholson about his influences, future projects and his admiration for the ‘two Larrys’.
LN: Who, or what inspired you go down the performing arts route and who were your influences growing up?
JC: Hi. Thank you for the invite. I sub-consciously had an interest at school. The stage always used to jump... Read More
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Posted by Leon Nicholson on March 29, 2013 · Leave a Comment
Fifty Shades of Cinema continues with Jonathon Dabell looking at Apocalypse Now starring Marlon Brando, Martin Sheen and Robert Duvall.
The Contenders
The race for Film Of The Year in 1979 sees some great titles vying for the top honour. The final Don Siegel-Clint Eastwood collaboration Escape From Alcatraz is in the mix, as is Jonathan Demme’s Hitchcockian thriller Last Embrace, cult gang actioner The Warriors, and Sally Field’s first Oscar-winning... Read More
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Posted by Leon Nicholson on March 15, 2013 · 1 Comment
Fifty Shades of Cinema continues with Jonathon Dabell looking at Star Wars, starring Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford and Carrie Fisher.
The Contenders
As ever, the task of selecting a Film Of The Year presents a considerable challenge as we reach 1977. Immediately a couple of foreign titles make a strong claim for the title, one being Luis Bunuel’s tantalising That Obscure Object Of Desire, the other Paul Verhoeven’s epic Dutch war film Soldaat Van... Read More
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Posted by Leon Nicholson on March 1, 2013 · Leave a Comment
Fifty Shades of Cinema continues with Jonathon Dabell taking a look at One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest starring Jack Nicholson and Louise Fletcher.
The Contenders.
1975 offers some top titles as well as being the ‘birth-year’ of the summer event movie, in this case a might fine one in the shape of Steven Spielberg’s Jaws. Stanley Kubrick returns with the meticulous epic Barry Lyndon; Al Pacino’s run of brilliant movies continues with... Read More
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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
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Posted by Leon Nicholson on February 8, 2013 · Leave a Comment
Fifty Shades of Cinema continues with Jonathon Dabell taking a look at Solyaris directed by the great Andrei Tarkovsky and starring Donatas Banionis and Natalya Bondarchuk.
The Contenders
1972 marks yet another year of movie greats – high on the list of contenders would be Hitchcock’s surprisingly graphic thriller Frenzy; John Boorman’s terrifying outdoor nightmare Deliverance; Bernardo Bertolucci’s hugely controversial Last Tango In Paris;... Read More
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Posted by Leon Nicholson on February 1, 2013 · Leave a Comment
Fifty Shades of Cinema continues with Jonathon Dabell taking a look at A Clockwork Orange directed by the great Stanley Kubrick and starring Malcolm McDowell.
The Contenders
1971 is full of strong candidates for Film Of The Year. Clint Eastwood appears for the first time as Dirty Harry and, later in the year, makes his directorial debut with the chilling Play Misty For Me; Sam Peckinpah goes for the jugular with his divisive and violent masterpiece... Read More
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