“Nine” (2009)
To remake a beloved classic is always to play with fire. Anything that survives long enough to be thought ‘classic’ is unlikely to need much improving. This is doubly so if the nature of the original is bound up with the genius of its creator. You wouldn’t think to remake “Citizen Kane”, would you, without […]
“The Ghost and Mrs Muir” (1947)
This 1947 gem should be mandatory viewing for Peter Jackson or any other contemporary director struggling to make fantasy work on screen. A romantic drama with a proto-feminist theme, its tale of the attraction between a strong willed widow and a misogynistic sailor is made all the more compelling by the fact that the latter […]
