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1.Summer & Smoke starring: Laurence Harvey, Geraldine Page, Rita Moreno, Una Merkel, John McIntire directed by: Peter Glenville January 13, 1998
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Summer and Smoke has Geraldine Page as a woman in love with a young man next door. She lives in a parsonage with her dictatorial, repressed father, and a mentally ill mother. The film unflods and we see the tragedy approaching, and Ms Page becoming more and more aware of it, culminating in her final scene. The lyricism of her acting, her gestures, her inner pleading, and her silences are wrenching and strangely evocative of how things are for many people..no hope left, but the edge that rejection and despair give to us in odd ways, making it possible to go on, in an aloien world, dersiring death as the next step that must be taken. See this film with her, and witness greatness of the highest order. The rest of cast is excellent, especially Una Merkel as her mother, ... Read More

2.Becket starring: Richard Burton, Peter O'Toole, John Gielgud, Donald Wolfit directed by: Peter Glenville September 28, 1990
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This 1964 film garnered twelve Academy Award nominations, and age has not diminished its power to engage the viewer. Fueled by two powerful performances that drive the entire film, that of Peter O'Toole as Henry II and that of Richard Burton as Thomas Becket, this history based drama explains the conflict that caused the assassinatiom and subsequent canonization of Becket. Henry II, England's twelfth century Norman King, elevated Thomas Becket, a commoner and Saxon peasant, to the lofty position of Chancellor of England. Famous friends, they drank, caroused and wenched together. All was well between them until Henry takes it into his head to appoint Becket as Archbishop of Canterbury, the most powerful cleric in England, though Becket begs his friend not to do this. Ignoring the ... Read More

3.Becket (Letterboxed Edition) starring: Richard Burton, Peter O'Toole, John Gielgud, Gino Cervi, Paolo Stoppa directed by: Peter Glenville October 17, 1994
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Another "Burton" at his best, "Becket" gives us a superb Peter O'toole as Henry II. No better acting than these two give us has Hollywood ever produced and it's all there in this increibly important film. Thought provoking and ethiically important. The comlexity of being human faces us throughout the two and a half hours. Would that Hollywood were still producing motion pictures of this quality!

4.Me & The Colonel starring: Danny Kaye, Curd Jürgens, Nicole Maurey, Françoise Rosay, Akim Tamiroff directed by: Peter Glenville February 20, 1996
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This is a gem of a movie, unfortunately largely overlooked. I think Danny Kaye gives his best performance here, in a long career of wonderful performances. And the plot offers something for almost everyone, without in the least being a pandering smear of action. Men to whom I recommended this film liked it for its recreation of conditions in World War II France. The tanks, the Germans sweeping in to occupy, the grim choice faced by the local residents of the occupied towns - to cope, to conciliate, or to combat. All the women to whom I've recommended this film liked the romance. With its hint of the possibility of polyandry to come, this movie was ahead of its time, without stooping to the crasser implications of the modern meaning of "a threesome." I have ... Read More

5.Comedians (1967) starring: Richard Burton, Elizabeth Taylor, Alec Guinness, Peter Ustinov, Paul Ford directed by: Peter Glenville September 01, 1998
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If Z was the champion movie dealing with the Authoritarian regimes, there were another two: Battle of Algiers and this one. Powerful political drama focused on the repressive regime of Doc Duvalier. The script is intense and realistic; the cast is glorious; Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Peter Ustinov and Alec Guiness. A team very difficult to get in those times.

6.Hotel Paradiso starring: Alec Guinness, Gina Lollobrigida, Robert Morley, Peggy Mount directed by: Peter Glenville
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Monsieur Feydeau has writer's block, and he needs a new play. But he takes an opportunity to observe the upper class of 1900 Paris - Monsieur Boniface with a domineering wife, and the next-door neglectful husband Henri with a beautiful but ignored wife Marcelle. Henri traces architectural anomalies (most ghost sounds are drains), and plans a night at the Hotel Paradiso; but this hotel is the assignation spot of Marcelle and Boniface. One wife, two husbands, a nephew, and the perky Boniface maid, all at this 'by the hour' hotel, and consummation of the affair is, to say the least, severely compromised (not the least by a police raid). All of this under Feydeau's eye, and his play is the 'success fou' of the next season. [This material is from a film database--not a personal review.]

7.Prisoner starring: Alec Guinness, Jack Hawkins, Wilfrid Lawson, Kenneth Griffith, Jeanette Sterke directed by: Peter Glenville June 02, 1998
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Few actors have such a glowing record of fine films to his credit as Alec Guinness. Here, he is again excellent, but even he was unable to overcome such a weak script. The story involves the Communist tactic of arresting and breaking down a man mentally. The script is pretentious, inconclusive, wordy, and unpersuasive. The production itself is low budget but competent. Hawkins overacts at times, but that's nothing new. One comes away from the film with perplexity and disappointment. Yes, the Cardinal confessed everything. And his inquisitor is apparently ready to commit suicide--for having succeeded. Who cares? There is nothing inspirational or even informative here. It's like an acting school, with two veterans of stage and film displaying their prowess. A film best forgotten.

8.Me and the Colonel starring: Danny Kaye, Curd Jürgens, Nicole Maurey, Françoise Rosay, Akim Tamiroff directed by: Peter Glenville
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This is a gem of a movie, unfortunately largely overlooked. I think Danny Kaye gives his best performance here, in a long career of wonderful performances. And the plot offers something for almost everyone, without in the least being a pandering smear of action. Men to whom I recommended this film liked it for its recreation of conditions in World War II France. The tanks, the Germans sweeping in to occupy, the grim choice faced by the local residents of the occupied towns - to cope, to conciliate, or to combat. All the women to whom I've recommended this film liked the romance. With its hint of the possibility of polyandry to come, this movie was ahead of its time, without stooping to the crasser implications of the modern meaning of "a threesome." I have also recommended this ... Read More

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