"Der kleine irische Ort Butlershill wird von einem Skandal erschüttert. Die junge, unverheiratete Tara Maguire bekommt ein Baby und weigert sich standhaft den Namen des Vaters preiszugeben. Als Dorfhure verschrien arbeitet sie weiter in ihrem kleinen Laden und zieht das Kind gemeinsam mit ihrer Schwester auf. Pfarrer Malone prangert Tara in der Kirche öffentlich an und versucht sie in eine Ehe mit dem Dorfpolizisten Brendan Hegarty zu dr ..."
"This lighthearted romp through Royal India presents a world of Maharajas, palaces, imperiled art objects, and the foreign collectors who will stop at nothing to possess them. Peggy Ashcroft and Larry Pine star as two rapacious art collectors who come to the decaying Art Deco palace of a young Maharaja (Victor Banerjee) to examine a legendary collection of Indian miniature paintings. While vying with each other to get the pictures away f ..."
"Das angesehene Filmemachertrio Ismail Merchant (Produktion), James Ivory (Regie) und Ruth Prawer Jhabvala (Drehbuch) hat bereits vor 1985, als Zimmer mit Aussicht in die Kinos kam, Filme hervorgebracht, denen seitens der Kritik höchste Anerkennung zuteil wurde. Dieser populäre Streifen aber war es, der sie zu Superstars des Filmkunsttheaters machte. Zimmer mit Aussicht, eine hervorragende Adaption des Romans von E. M. Forster, ist eine ..."
"A persistent clash of cultures lies at the heart of "Heat and Dust", the Merchant/Ivory team's most acclaimed drama prior to 1985's "A Room with a View". The celebrated trio of director James Ivory, producer Ismail Merchant, and screenwriter Ruth Prawer Jhabvala were perfectly suited to this time-skipping story of thwarted romance, based on Jhabvala's novel, in which the colonial British find themselves perpetually at odds with the vibr ..."
"Der Dokumentarfilm The Song Remains the Same, entstanden 1976, bietet jedem Led Zeppelin-Fan eine Fundgrube an heißen Live-Auftritten, die angesichts der Tatsache, dass es leider nur sehr wenig Filmmaterial aus dem wohl besten Jahrzehnt der Band gibt, besonders willkommen sind. Obgleich die Gruppe es nach einer langen Tournee müde war, erneut auf Achse zu gehen, zeugt der abschließende, dreitägige Auftritt im Madison Square Gardon doch ..."
"The prestigious filmmaking trio of producer Ismail Merchant, director James Ivory, and screenwriter Ruth Prawer Jhabvala had made other critically acclaimed films before A Room with a View was released in 1985, but it was this popular film that made them art-house superstars. Splendidly adapted from the novel by E.M. Forster, it's a comedy of the heart, a passionate romance and a study of repression within the British class system of ma ..."
"Bursting with all the fiery elements that make great love stories memorable, The Playboys is "a beautiful, moving and gripping film" (The Hollywood Reporter). Boasting "excellent performances"(Variety) by Albert Finney, Aidan Quinn and Robin Wright this "lovely and enveloping film weaves magic" (The New York Times)! Tara (Wright), the most irresistible woman in a small Irish village, is also the most scorned when she refuses to reveal t ..."
"A Simple Twist of Fate, Steve Martin's second adaptation of a classic (after his Roxanne-ization of Cyrano de Bergerac), is a melancholy, dramatic comedy about a recluse coming out of his shell. Suggested by George Eliot's Silas Marner, this isn't a cutesy picture akin to Father of the Bride. It's much more heartfelt, gentle, and satisfying, as long as you accept its traditional and predictable conclusions. Scorned by life, Michael McCa ..."
"The prestigious filmmaking trio of producer Ismail Merchant, director James Ivory, and screenwriter Ruth Prawer Jhabvala had made other critically acclaimed films before "A Room with a View" was released in 1985, but it was this popular film that made them art-house superstars. Splendidly adapted from the novel by E.M. Forster, it's a comedy of the heart, a passionate romance and a study of repression within the British class system of ..."
"Stepping Out is a 1991 musical-comedy film directed by Lewis Gilbert, starring Liza Minnelli, written by Richard Harris and based on a play also written by Harris. Minnelli plays the role of a has-been Broadway performer who gives tap lesson to a group of misfits who, through their dance classes, bond and realize what they can achieve."
"For Led Zeppelin fanatics, this 1976 feature The Song Remains the Same is a treasure of searing live performances, particularly welcome in light of the sad scarcity of such visual material from the band's great decade. Despite the group's road weariness after a long tour, their final, three-night stand at Madison Square Garden in 1973 was full of the old power. Performances of "No Quarter," "Whole Lotta Love," "Black Dog," "Dazed a ..."