Ian Holm

  • Mike Newell – Dance with a Stranger (1985) (HD)

    1981-1990CrimeDramaMike NewellUnited Kingdom
    Dance with a Stranger (1985)
    Dance with a Stranger (1985)

    review – AMG:
    A precisely cut social commentary, Dance with a Stranger captures the twin woes of austerity and repression that characterized 1950s Britain. Director Mike Newell keeps polemics to a minimum, treating his subject as a carefully observed study of class tension and sexual obsession. He dissects the Ellis-Blakely affair in the measured, diligent manner that one might employ to reconstruct a catastrophic train wreck; since the outcome is a foregone conclusion, Newell finds drama in the forces leading to that conclusion. The film works best as a grim character study, in which character is seen (by society) as an outgrowth of class. Read More »

  • David Hare – Wetherby (1985)

    David Hare1981-1990DramaMysteryUnited Kingdom
    Wetherby (1985)
    Wetherby (1985)

    The mysterious death of an enigmatic young man newly arrived in the suburb of Wetherby releases the long-repressed, dark passions of some of its residents.Read More »

  • Gavin Millar – Dreamchild (1985)

    1981-1990DramaFantasyGavin MillarUnited Kingdom

    Quote:
    Dreamchild: A Film Essay by Elwin Cotman

    Dreamchild, directed by Gavin Millar: “What was that name that Lewis Carroll used to call you?”

    “That’s right. Dreamchild.”

    That is a beautiful movie poster. Made doubly so by the fact that, in the movie, the moment it illustrates most likely didn’t happen. Dreamchild, the first film made by the Jim Henson Creature Shop without the auteur’s input, is a film about memory. What happened, what we wish had happened, what we wish we could take back. It is also, like the poster, beautiful.Read More »

  • Woody Allen – Another Woman (1988)

    1981-1990DramaUSAWoody Allen

    Synopsis:
    Facing a mid-life crisis, a woman rents an apartment next to a psychiatrist’s office to write a new book, only to become drawn to the plight of a pregnant woman seeking that doctor’s help.Read More »

  • Michael A. Simpson – The Browning Version (1985)

    1981-1990BBCDramaMichael A. SimpsonTVUnited Kingdom

    Andrew Crocker-Harris is an aging classics master at a British public school with only a few days left in his career but who is suddenly forced to confront his own life’s failures. Starring Judi Dench, Michael Kitchen, John Woodvine, Ian Holm. Directed by Michael A. Simpson. Originally broadcast December 31, 1985.Read More »

  • Jack Gold – The Bofors Gun [+Extras] (1968)

    1961-1970DramaJack GoldUnited KingdomWar

    A drama set in post-war Germany. A small detachment of British National Servicemen faces
    internal strife and a meltdown of Army discipline.Read More »

  • Dick Clement – A Severed Head (1970)

    1961-1970Dick ClementDramaUnited Kingdom

    Antonia, the pampered wife of Martin Lynch-Gibbon, an upper class wine merchant, tells her husband that she is in love with their best friend, the psychiatrist Palmer Anderson. Palmer and Antonia want to deal with the situation in a civilized way, by remaining friends with Martin. Meanwhile Martin tries to keep his mistress, Georgie Hands, a secret, but Palmer’s sister, Honor Klein, who taught Georgie at Oxford, tells Palmer and Antonia about her. Furthermore, Honor introduces Georgie to Martin’s womanizing brother, Alexander. This is just the beginning of the various liaisons.Read More »

  • Atom Egoyan – The Sweet Hereafter [+Extras] (1997)

    1991-2000ArthouseAtom EgoyanDramaUSA

    Quote:
    The Sweet Hereafter deals with the effects of a tragic school bus crash on a ravishingly beautiful small town set amid the scenic mountains of British Columbia. Outsider Ian Holm arrives, much like the Pied Piper, a lawyer trying to lure the citizens of the town into a class-action suit that would allow the mourning parents to try to sate their immense loss with the small solace of cash. Where Egoyan has dealt with emotional traumas of different sorts of outsiders and marginal characters in the past, with this adaptation, he has made a stirring portrait of the effects of loss within a community. –Ray PrideRead More »

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