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Radford halts shooting on La Mula - 4 November 2009
-Filmmaker Michael Radford has been forced to suspend shooting on upcoming movie La Mula a week before it was due to wrap over financial fears.- -The Il Postino director announced to his cast and crew he had no choice but to halt the comedy, about the Spanish Civil War,

Dancing At The Blue Iguana review by Lollardo from London

Ghastly 5 September 2004
...acting, and utterly tedious. So why rent it? Curiosity got the better of me; Michael Radford has done good stuff in the past. Not this one. Avoid.... Read customer review

Flawless on DVD (2007)
Starring: Demi Moore, Michael Caine, Constantine Gregory
Director: Michael Radford
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A crime/drama set in 1960 London, where a soon to retire janitor convinces a glass-ceiling constrained American executive to help him steal a handful of diamonds from their employer, the London Diamond Corporation.

63% from 6,012 members

The Merchant Of Venice on DVD (2004)
Starring: Al Pacino, Jeremy Irons, Joseph Fiennes
Director: Michael Radford
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16th Century Venice: Young nobleman Bassanio (Fiennes) has asked his friend Antonio (Irons) to lend him money in order that he might sail to Belmont and try for the hand of the fair Portia (Collins). However, Antonio's money is all tied up in his business with his ships all away at various ports. ..read more »

59% from 16,049 members

Dancing At The Blue Iguana on DVD (2000)
Starring: W. Earl Brown, Robert Wisdom, Daryl Hannah
Director: Michael Radford
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From Michael Radford, the Oscar-winning director of Il Postino, comes this unglamorous, semi-improvised film exploring the complex intersecting lives of five exotic dancers who work at the LA strip-club “The Blue Iguana”. Showcasing six actresses who continue to win awards across their careers: ..read more »

40% from 1,194 member

B. Monkey (1998)
Starring: Asia Argento, Jared Harris, Rupert Everett
Director: Michael Radford
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Alan Furnace is a young man with the perfectly proper, quiet life of a London school teacher. But beneath all of that decency lies a burning desire for excitement and he just found it. She's a woman unlike any other: Unruly Irish eyes, Latin lips... her name is Beatrice, but on the streets they ..read more »

55% from 34 members
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Il Postino on DVD (1995)
Starring: Maria Grazia Cucinotta, Anna Bonaiuto, Renato Scarpa
Director: Michael Radford
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In this remake of the 1983 Ardiente Paciencia by Antonio Skarmeta, the time and place have been changed to Italy in the 1950s, but the relationship between the Chilean Nobel Prize-winning poet Pablo Neruda and Mario (Massimo Troisi), the postman who delivers his copious mail, is still the focus of ..read more »

72% from 11,195 members

White Mischief on DVD (1987)
Starring: Greta Scacchi, Charles Dance, Joss Ackland
Director: Michael Radford
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If there was a paradise untouched by the war in the winter of 1940, it was Kenya's Happy Valley. There the tall, blond and impeccably groomed Josslyn Hay, 22nd Earl of Errol, enjoyed a decadent life of pleasure with his fellow aristocrats. Their's was a society in which adultery was routine and ..read more »

64% from 312 members

1984 on DVD (1985)
Starring: John Hurt, Richard Burton, Cyril Cusack
Director: Michael Radford
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A fine and stunning screen adaptation of Orwell's prophetic 1948 novel about a world in which the government completely controls the masses by controlling their thoughts, altering history and even changing the meaning of words to suit its needs. This was Richard Burton's final film.

63% from 6,574 members

Another Time, Another Place (1983)
Starring: Phyllis Logan, Giovanni Mauriello, Denise Coffey
Director: Michael Radford
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Set during World War II, a young Scottish woman married to a rancher, falls in love with a passionate Italian prisoner- of-war and starts out on an doomed love affair.

50% from 11 members
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Flawless - 3.0 stars
The Merchant Of Venice - 3.0 stars
Dancing At The Blue Iguana - 2.0 stars
B. Monkey - 3.0 stars
Il Postino - 3.5 stars

Il Postino - 3.5 stars
White Mischief - 3.0 stars
1984 - 3.0 stars
Flawless - 3.0 stars
The Merchant Of Venice - 3.0 stars

Another Time, Another Place - 2.5 stars
B. Monkey - 3.0 stars
Dancing At The Blue Iguana - 2.0 stars
The Merchant Of Venice - 3.0 stars
Flawless - 3.0 stars

Joss Ackland - 2 times - show films
Al Pacino - 1 times - show films
Charlotte Ayanna - 1 times - show films
Jonathan Rhys-Meyers - 1 times - show films
Cyril Cusack - 1 times - show films