The Bridges of Madison County 

When two Iowa siblings get involved with the settlement of their dead mother’s estate, they learn that in 1965 she had an affair with a photographer who was there to…

Henry V: Branagh and the Bard

Photo: Renaissance Films When I was a teenager, my class was treated to a performance of Shakespeare’s ”Hamlet”. It was not a bad production; the young leading actors later became…

Gone With the Wind: Fall of the Old South

Clark Gable and Vivien Leigh. Photo: MGM Last August, news came that a cinema in Memphis, Tennessee had decided not to screen Gone With the Wind because of numerous complaints.…

Christmas Inheritance 

The wealthy owner of a gift business sends his spoilt daughter (Eliza Taylor) to a small town called Snow Falls where she must deliver a special Christmas card to her…

A Christmas Prince 

Young journalist Amber Moore (Rose McIver) finally gets a chance to cover something real – a press conference in the country of Aldovia where Prince Richard (Ben Lamb) is set…

Fanny and Alexander: Dark Christmas

Bertil Guve. Photo: SFI Ingmar Bergman would have been 100 years old next year, so in his honor Stockholm’s leading department store dedicated their annual Christmas window display to Fanny…

Wuthering Heights 

In the early 1800s, the Earnshaw family takes in a dark-skinned boy (Solomon Glave); resented by their son, Heathcliff nevertheless forms a bond with the daughter (Shannon Beer). Andrea Arnold’s…

45 Years: Solid and Fragile

Tom Courtenay and Charlotte Rampling. Photo: BFI My parents have been married for 44 years. I’m fascinated by couples who have stayed together that many decades. I find it almost…

Dunkirk: Surviving the Beach

Photo: Warner About 25 years ago, Christopher Nolan and his wife Emma Thomas were crossing the English Channel together with a friend. They were in a small sailing yacht headed…

L’Avventura: The Mystery of Anna

Gabriele Ferzetti and Monica Vitti. Photo: Cino del Duca The Cannes film festival is famous for its tumultuous screenings, but I wonder if there has ever been a change of…