The Fabulous Baker Boys
This tale of two washed up pianists and the feisty songstress who crosses their path was one of the great underrated romantic comedies of the eighties. So whatever happened to Michelle Pfeiffer, asks Richard Armstrong?
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Movie Mutations – The Changing Face of World Cinephilia
Following Movie Wars, a book about the machinations of modern Hollywood, Jonathan Rosenbaum returns with a look back at the changing nature of cinema appreciation. The days of the true movie lover are long gone – aren’t they? Richard Armstrong finds out
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To coincide with the forthcoming Visconti season at the NFT, the Bfi has released several of the great director’s films on DVD. Richard Armstrong traces the influence of hard-boiled fiction, film noir and neo-realism in Ossessione
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Saturday Night and Sunday Morning
Don’t let the bastards grind you down…The bfi has just issued this classic of the British New Wave for the first time on DVD, along with The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner. Richard Armstrong finds out how it looks forty years on
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The Cineaste Interviews 2: On the Art and Politics of the Cinema
Cineaste was one of the first (and only) magazines to specifically address political issues in cinema. Richard Armstrong looks back over a collection of interviews from the magazine’s last twenty years
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