Backed by Guillermo del Toro and yet made by a surprisingly inexperienced group of film makers (especially considering the end result), The Orphanage is a chilling, tense supernatural thriller that could certainly teach more established directors a thing or two about how to send shivers down the spine. It tells the story of a woman, Laura, returning to the orphanage where she was ...
Manufacturer: Optimum Home EntertainmentStarring: Belen Rueda, Geraldine Chaplin, Fernando CayoDirected By: Juan Antonio Bayona
David Lean's wintry adaptation of Boris Pasternak's melodramatic Russian Revolution romance, Doctor Zhivago, is a masterpiece of epic filmmaking, but one that risks leaving the viewer cold. Though none of the film was shot in the then USSR, Lean's assured technique nevertheless illuminates the breathtaking backgrounds magnificently: from the snowy wastes of the Urals to the strife-torn ...
Manufacturer: Warner Home VideoStarring: Omar Sharif, Julie Christie, Geraldine Chaplin, Rod Steiger, Alec GuinnessDirected By: David Lean
Belen Rueda, Geraldine Chaplin, Fernando Cayo
Manufacturer: Optimum Home EntertainmentStarring: Geraldine Chaplin, Anthony Perkins, Michael York, Vanessa Redgrave, Albert FinneyDirected By: Sidney Lumet
Martin Scorsese does not sound like the logical choice to direct an adaptation of Edith Wharton's novel about manners and morals in New York society in the 1870s. But these are mean streets, too, and the psychological violence inflicted between characters is at least as damaging as the physical violence perpetrated by Scorsese's usual gangsters. At the centre of the tale is Newland Archer (Daniel ...
Manufacturer: Sony Pictures Home EntertainmentStarring: Daniel Day-Lewis, Michelle Pfeiffer, Winona Ryder, Alexis Smith, Geraldine ChaplinDirected By: Martin Scorsese
Spanish director Pedro Almodovar's Talk To Her is his least stylised, most accessible and arguably greatest movie. Covering the same, highly provocative terrain as Dennis Potter's Brimstone and Treacle and The Smiths' "Girlfriend in a Coma", Almodovar forges a work that's funny, compassionate, engaging and deeply touching. Unusually for Almodovar, the emphasis is on the two male ...
Manufacturer: Pathe DistributionStarring: Rosario Flores, Javier Cámara, Darío Grandinetti, Leonor Watling, Mariola FuentesDirected By: Pedro Almodóvar
Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox Home EntertainmentStarring: Kristanna Loker, Michelle Rodriguez, Ben Kingsley, Michael Madsen, Matthew DavisDirected By: Uwe Boll
Manufacturer: Acorn MediaStarring: Sinead Cusack, Geraldine Chaplin, Jason Durr, Maureen Lipman, John BirdDirected By: Martyn Friend
The beloved tale of Heidi, the Swiss miss whose indomitable spirit touches all those around her, despite having been dealt a harsh hand in life, gets a spunky boost in this 2005 film adaptation. A stellar cast includes Max von Sydow as Grandfather, a roiling-with-inner-rage Geraldine Chaplin as Rottenmeier, and a benevolent Diana Rigg as Grandmamma. At the centre of their world--like it or ...
Manufacturer: Universal Pictures UKStarring: Emma Bolger, Max Von Sydow, Diana Rigg, Robert Bathurst, Pauline McLynnDirected By: Paul Marcus
Chaplin, Sir Richard Attenborough's biographical film of the life and times of the famous comic, is a little thin as a narrative, but it is so charmingly creative and ultimately moving that it's hard to worry about the deficits. Robert Downey Jr does an excellent job re-creating Chaplin's graceful slapstick and getting inside the silent-film superstar's head over the years of triumph, ...
Manufacturer: Momentum PicturesStarring: Robert Downey Jr., Geraldine Chaplin, Paul Rhys, John Thaw, Moira KellyDirected By: Richard Attenborough
