Bradford International Film Festival · 2011
Dedicated to wide-gauge cinema formats. Stanley Long will also attend a special event to talk about Circlorama.
13 films · 7 reviews
Lean's bridge-building drama doesn't grip as much as its reputation promises.
(Country: UK; Year: 1957; Director: David Lean; Writer: Michael Wilson, Carl Foreman, Calder Willingham, Pierre Boulle; Stars: Alec Guinness, William Holden, Jack Hawkins, Sessue Hayakawa)
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Some of the best puppetry you'll see anywhere.
(Country: US, UK; Year: 1982; Director: Jim Henson, Frank Oz; Writer: Jim Henson, David Odell; Stars: Jim Henson, Kathryn Mullen, Frank Oz, Dave Goelz, Steve Whitmire, Louise Gold, Brian Muehl, Bob Payne, Mike Quinn, Tim Rose, Jean-Pierre Amiel, Hugh Spight, Robbie Barnett, Swee Lim, Simon Williamson)
Even if this isn’t your thing, you’ll easily understand the appeal.
(Country: UK; Year: 1981; Director: Joe Massot; Stars: Buster Bloodvessel, Roddy Byers, Rhoda Dakar, Jerry Dammers, Terry Hall, Horace Panter, David Wakeling)
(Country: Soviet Union, Japan; Year: 1975; Director: Akira Kurosawa; Writer: Vladimir Arsenyev, Akira Kurosawa, Yuri Nagibin; Stars: Maksim Munzuk, Yuri Solomin, Svetlana Danilchenko, Dmitri Korshikov, Suimenkul Chokmorov, Vladimir Kremena, Aleksandr Pyatkov, Mikhail Bychkov, Sovetbek Dzhumadylov, B. Khorulev, Nikolai Volkov)
Every image drives the story on, or highlights the characters’ tragedy.
(Country: US, Italy; Year: 1965; Director: David Lean; Writer: Boris Pasternak, Robert Bolt; Stars: Omar Sharif, Julie Christie, Geraldine Chaplin, Rod Steiger, Alec Guinness, Tom Courtenay, Siobhan McKenna, Ralph Richardson, Rita Tushingham, Jeffrey Rockland, Tarek Sharif, Bernard Kay, Klaus Kinski, Gérard Tichy, Noel Willman)
(Country: East Germany, Soviet Union, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia, Poland; Year: 1971; Director: Konrad Wolf; Writer: Lion Feuchtwanger, Angel Vagenshtain; Stars: Donatas Banionis, Olivera Katarina, Fred Düren, Tatyana Lolova, Rolf Hoppe, Mieczyslaw Voit, Mikhail Kozakov, Arno Wyzniewski, Lyudmila Chursina, Veriko Andjaparidze)
(Country: US; Year: 1965; Director: Blake Edwards; Writer: Arthur A. Ross, Blake Edwards; Stars: Jack Lemmon, Tony Curtis, Natalie Wood, Peter Falk, Keenan Wynn, Arthur O'Connell, Vivian Vance, Dorothy Provine, Larry Storch, Ross Martin, George Macready, Marvin Kaplan, Hal Smith, Denver Pyle, William Bryant)
(Country: USA; Year: 1962; Director: John Ford, Henry Hathaway, George Marshall, Richard Thorpe; Writer: James R. Webb, John Gay; Stars: Carroll Baker, Lee J. Cobb, Henry Fonda, Carolyn Jones, Karl Malden, Gregory Peck, George Peppard, Robert Preston, Debbie Reynolds, James Stewart)
What remains true now, as it was then, is the scale and scope of the thing.
(Country: UK; Year: 1962; Director: David Lean; Writer: Robert Bolt, based on Seven Pillars Of Wisdom by T E Lawrence; Stars: Peter O'Toole, Alec Guinness, Anthony Quinn, Jack Hawkins, Omar Sharif, Jose Ferrer, Anthony Quale, Claude Rains, Arthur Kennedy, Donald Wolfit)
The Lion In Winter is a film made stunning by the performances of Hepburn and O'Toole. They both thrive on James Goldman's tight script.
(Country: UK; Year: 1968; Director: Anthony Harvey; Writer: James Goldman, based on the play by James Goldman; Stars: Peter O'Toole, Katharine Hepburn, Timothy Dalton, Anthony Hopkins, Jane Merrow, John Castle, Nigel Terry, Nigel Stock)
(Country: UK; Year: 1965; Director: Michael Anderson; Writer: Duilio Coletti, Vittoriano Petrilli, Emeric Pressburger, Derry Quinn, Ray Rigby; Stars: Sophia Loren, George Peppard, Trevor Howard, John Mills, Richard Johnson, Tom Courtenay, Jeremy Kemp, Anthony Quayle, Lilli Palmer, Paul Henreid, Helmut Dantine, Barbara Rütting, Richard Todd, Sylvia Syms, John Fraser)
Those who doubt the artistic potential of the horror genre should be nailed down and made to watch this.
(Country: Italy; Year: 1977; Director: Dario Argento; Writer: Dario Argento, Daria Nicolodi; Stars: Jessica Harper, Stefania Casini, Flavio Bucci, Alida Valli, Udo Kier)
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