Russian director Nikita Mikhalkov takes a break from emulating his beloved Chekhov to film the classic Ivan Goncharov novel Oblomov. The title character (played by Oleg Tabakov) is a 19th century Russian civil servant and landlord who chooses to…
Italian maestro Federico Fellinis first international success is a nakedly autobiographical film that bears many of the formal and thematic concerns that recur throughout his work. Set in the directors hometown of Rimini, I Vitelloni follows the lives of…
Set over three decades in the entertainment business, Merrily We Roll Along charts the relationship between three friends Franklin, Mary and Charley. Travelling backwards in time, this powerful and moving story features some of Sondheims most beautiful songs including…
Johnston MacCulleys 1913 adventure yarn The Curse of Capistrano was given its first filmization in Douglas Fairbanks 1920 The Mark of Zorro. Fairbanks plays the outwardly foppish Don Diego de la Vega, the son of wealthy Spanish Californian rancher….
