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Maigret tend un piège | BFI
The first, and best, of three films in which Jean Gabin tackles Georges Simenon's illustrious Commissaire Maigret.
film  crime-genre  france 
22 days ago by tabardroad
Shakespeare goes sci-fi in Michael Caine's post-apocalyptic Henry5
Apparently, Michael Caine and Ray Winstone are heading up the cast of Henry5, a sci-fi take on Shakespeare's classic historical drama.
film  shakespeare  sci-fi 
november 2010 by tabardroad
The crime 25
The Guardian's guide to the greatest crime films of all time.
film  crime-genre 
october 2010 by tabardroad
That's not what I wrote!
When popular books gets turned into film, the authors often complain
film  writers 
may 2010 by tabardroad
Noomi Rapace's Lisbeth was a suicide mission - Times Online
The actress kick boxed, pierced and tattooed her way through as Salander, the goth supersleuth in Stieg Larsson’s trilogy.
film  crime-genre  sweden 
february 2010 by tabardroad
Angelina Jolie to play Patricia Cornwell's Kay Scarpetta in new film franchise
The crusty coroner protagonist of 16 bestselling crime novels by Patricia Cornwell is being developed as a possible franchise vehicle for Angelina Jolie.
film  crime-genre  books  usa 
april 2009 by tabardroad
New wave’s old master - The National Newspaper
Age has not withered Claude Chabrol. Born in 1930, he is a founding father of the French new wave, introducing the style to the movie-going public with 1958’s Le beau Serge. Last year he celebrated a half century at the forefront of European filmmaking, having racked up 71 directing credits over the course of his career – most for the big screen, some for TV.
chabrol  france  film  directors  ruth-rendell 
april 2009 by tabardroad
Three Monkeys
Turkish director Nuri Bilge Ceylan has turned his innovative talents to that old cinematic favourite, the crime thriller.
film  crime-genre 
february 2009 by tabardroad
DVD Times - The Film Noir Collection begins in March
Glass Key DVD have announced the UK Region 2 DVD release of three film noir titles on 16th March 2009. Priced at £9.99 RRP each, Woman on the Run, Trapped and Quicksand are the first 3 titles of a planned 54 in their new The Film Noir Collection range.
dvd  film  noir  crime-genre 
february 2009 by tabardroad
Ben-Hur: George Baker screentest - AOL Video
George Baker screentests for the role of Ben-Hur (1959) that ultimately went to Charlton Heston.
george-baker  video  screentest  1950s  film 
december 2008 by tabardroad
Woman in the distance: Don DeLillo on Wanda
He is a bank robber, she is a lost soul - a volatile man, a suggestible woman. Don DeLillo on the sad, complex 1970s movie Wanda, the first and only film made by writer, director and actress Barbara Loden.
film  crime-genre  articles 
november 2008 by tabardroad
Ritchie and Downey Jr launch new, 'authentic' Sherlock Holmes
It will not be the Sherlock Holmes on film many remember - the suave Basil Rathbone to the bumbling Nigel Bruce - but a new big budget action movie will be faithful to Arthur Conan Doyle's original stories, its director Guy Ritchie said yesterday.
crime-genre  film  sherlock-holmes 
october 2008 by tabardroad
TCM Crime Scene Festival 2008
Welcome to the 7th annual edition of the TCM Crime Scene Festival, which celebrates and explores contemporary and classic aspects of the world’s most popular fiction genre through film, TV and literature.
crime-genre  events  film  television  books 
july 2008 by tabardroad
A-Z animals
animals for filming, dogs for filming, animals for photography, dogs for photography, movie animals, film animals
film  television  animals  cast 
may 2008 by tabardroad
THE SHIP THAT DIED OF SHAME rated PG by the BBFC
Classified 25 March, 2008 . This work was submitted to the BBFC by Optimum Releasing .
george-baker  film  dvd 
march 2008 by tabardroad
Why isn't this a British film? | Features | Guardian Unlimited Film
Children of Men, Live Flesh and now Le Serpent - we need to stop letting foreign film-makers snaffle all our best stories, says John Patterson
ruth-rendell  film  comment 
september 2007 by tabardroad
BFI | Film & TV Database | A LITTLE TOUCH OF HARRY: THE MAKING OF HENRY V (1989)
Promotional film for HENRY V (1989), showing the film in production, extracts from the finished film, interviews with actors and crew...
christopher-ravenscroft  interviews  shakespeare  film  documentary 
march 2007 by tabardroad
BBC NEWS | Entertainment | BFI archives to be free to public
Britain's national film and television archive is to be opened up in order for it to be accessed by the public.
television  film 
february 2007 by tabardroad
Amazon.co.uk: The Moonraker [1957]: DVD: George Baker,Sylvia Syms,Peter Arne
The film that everybody is always asking about is finally to be released on Region 2 DVD in May 2007.
george-baker  film  dvd 
february 2007 by tabardroad
Notes on a Scandal
With some audacity, the spirits of both Hitchcock and Nabokov are invoked in this delectable adaptation of Zoë Heller's Booker-shortlisted novel. It's a psychological thriller about an ageing history teacher in a north London state school with a sinister
film  recommendations 
february 2007 by tabardroad
The Observer | What happened to ... Ken Kitson
In July 2003 The Observer told how Ken Kitson, a regular in BBC television's Last of the Summer Wine, put adverts in the Yorkshire Post and smaller local papers inviting readers to 'be part of the biggest romantic comedy western set in Yorkshire'
ken-kitson  film 
september 2006 by tabardroad
The Sweeney Flies Back
Classic cops getting a 21st century spin.
crime-genre  detective-genre  film 
september 2006 by tabardroad
Chabrol’s The Bridesmaid: When Family Is a Fraud
Claude Chabrol’s The Bridesmaid (La Demoiselle d’Honneur), from a screenplay by Pierre Leccia and Mr. Chabrol, based on the novel by Ruth Rendell, develops a passionate love story amid a creeping malignancy that ultimately engulfs the two lovers.
film  ruth-rendell  reviews  chabrol 
august 2006 by tabardroad
Rendell & Chabrol
Making novels into movies is a tricky business, but it is clear that the British crime writer Ruth Rendell and the French director Claude Chabrol are on the same wavelength.
ruth-rendell  chabrol  film  comment  reviews 
august 2006 by tabardroad
Shades of Grey: The Ship that Died of Shame
Ostensibly a crime yarn, it tells the story of motor-gunboat 1087, a vessel with a proud war record, and its ignominious fall from grace at the hands of her former first lieutenant, the criminal-minded Hoskins, and his ex-captain and dupe, Randall.
george-baker  film  books  reviews 
august 2006 by tabardroad
The couple that slays together ...
Rendell and Chabrol brilliantly keep leading us on, into a slowly darkening story of tango dancers and crystalline daggers and quiet shrouded mansions.
film  ruth-rendell  chabrol  reviews 
august 2006 by tabardroad
The Bridesmaid - New York Times Review
In Claude Chabrol’s Film ‘The Bridesmaid,’ a Mama’s Boy Meets a Femme Fatale
ruth-rendell  film  chabrol  reviews 
august 2006 by tabardroad
channel4.com/film - Live Flesh
The lives of a small group of people are forever changed following a shooting.
ruth-rendell  film 
july 2006 by tabardroad
Guardian Unlimited Arts | | Keep it up, lads!
George Baker - Inspector Wexford, your mother's favourite - can be clocked in Intimate Games (1975), showing off his collection of vibrators.
george-baker  film  comment 
june 2006 by tabardroad
The Dam Busters
George Baker on Radio 4. December 2005 (real audio clip).
film  interviews  audio  george-baker 
february 2006 by tabardroad
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