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The Golden Compass
Film Review December 7, 2007
by Kimberley Jones
Description: The special effects are mostly spectacular in this story of a 12-year-old orphan whose fate is connected to a holy, multiverse war yet to come. 
by Kimberley Jones
"...Directed by: Chris Weitz. Starring: Nicole Kidman, Daniel Craig, Dakota Blue Richards, Ben Walker, Eva Green, Jim Carter, Tom Courtenay, Sam Elliott, Christopher Lee and Simon McBurney..."
AFS Essential's Blokes 'n' Birds: British Realist Cinema
Screens Story August 31, 2007
by Josh Rosenblatt
Description: Sept. 4-Oct. 9
"...Though released only four years after Anger, Loneliness shows just how far kitchen-sink realism had come from that movie's violent despair. Whereas Burton's Jimmy is a son of Marlon Brando playing a son of Stanley Kowalski – full of an intemperate, masculine rage rationalized by philosophical brazenness – Tom Courtenay's Colin Smith is the damaged, observational heir to James Dean's Jim Stark – rail-thin and rebellious but with a passion directed more inward than out..."
Reissues
Music Review May 27, 2005
by Darcie Stevens
"..."Time goes by. I know it's gonna happen; I know it's goin' away," ("Tom Courtenay")..."
Nicholas Nickleby
Film Review January 10, 2003
by Marjorie Baumgarten
Description: Charles Dickens' 1939 novel is here adapted into a charming though abbreviated screen tale. Ably rendered by writer-director Douglas McGrath (who did the same for Jane Austen in Emma), the... 
by Marjorie Baumgarten
"...Directed by: Douglas Mcgrath. Starring: Hugh Mitchell, Romola Garai, Timothy Spall, Juliet Stevenson, Jim Broadbent, Edward Fox, Anne Hathaway, Alan Cumming, Barry Humphries, Nathan Lane, Jamie Bell, Tom Courtenay, Christopher Plummer and Charlie Hunnam..."
Video Reviews
Screens Review October 4, 2002
by Eli Kooris
Description: King Rat is a terribly honest and brutally realistic film about WWII P.O.W.s -- a perfect counter to its story of terribly dishonest people living in brutal times.
"...D: Bryan Forbes; with George Segal, Tom Courtenay, James Fox, John Mills, Denholm Elliott...."
Last Orders
Film Review March 29, 2002
by Steve Davis
Description: The wintry reminisces of four lifelong friends, recalled in the wake of the death of one of their own, are just about all that comprises the nonlinear plot of the...
by Steve Davis
"...Directed by: Fred Schepisi. Starring: David Hemmings, Ray Winstone, Tom Courtenay, Helen Mirren, Bob Hoskins and Michael Caine..."
Doctor Zhivago
Film Review June 19, 1995
by Marjorie Baumgarten
Description: Admittedly, this overlong and over-romantic Oscar-winning epic has never melted my personal tundra, but it's definitely quite the spectacle as directed by the modern-day king of epics, David Lean. The...
by Marjorie Baumgarten
"...Directed by: David Lean. Starring: Omar Sharif, Julie Christie, Geraldine Chaplin, Tom Courtenay and Alec Guinness..."
Film
June 16, 1995
"...DOCTOR ZHIVAGOD: David Lean; with Omar Sharif, Julie Christie, Geraldine Chaplin, Tom Courtenay, Alec Guinness. Admittedly, this overlong and over-romantic Oscar-winning epic has never melted my personal tundra, but it's definitely quite the spectacle and directed by the modern-day king of epics, David Lean..."
Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday
Film Review August 20, 1993
by Marjorie Baumgarten
Description: Steve Davis is a dirty rotten ratfink -- a defiler of tradition, a soiler of the natural order. Since the dawn of the Chronicle, Mr. Steve Davis has dutifully gone...
by Marjorie Baumgarten
"...Directed by: Karel Kachyna. Starring: Tom Courtenay, Brigitte Fossey, Freddie Jones, Linda Jablonska and Daniel Margolius..."
Neo-Tokyo
Film Review August 13, 1993
by Marc Savlov
Description: Originally created in 1989, this offbeat collection of animated Japanese shorts is a strange hybrid: two separate and distinct films, one of which actually contains three disparate stories, the other...
by Marc Savlov
"...Directed by: Karel Kachyna. Starring: Tom Courtenay, Brigitte Fossey, Freddie Jones, Linda Jablonska and Daniel Margolius..."
The Last Butterfly
Film Review August 13, 1993
by Marc Savlov
Description: From the award-winning Czech director of The Ear comes this relentlessly depressing -- albeit powerful -- film which manages to weave together mime, Nazis, and the story of the Czechoslovakian...
by Marc Savlov
"...Directed by: Karel Kachyna. Starring: Tom Courtenay, Brigitte Fossey, Freddie Jones, Linda Jablonska and Daniel Margolius..."
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