Unfinished Song

Vanessa Redgrave and Terence Stamp bring vitality to their roles in film otherwise filled with cliches about aging and the curative power of singing your heart out.

"...Directed by: Paul Andrew Williams. Starring: Terence Stamp, Vanessa Redgrave, Gemma Arterton, Christopher Eccleston, Anne Reid, Elizabeth Counsell..."

July 5, 2013 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

From the Journals of Jean Seberg

"...threads between two contemporaries of Seberg's, Jane Fonda and Vanessa Redgrave. Recounting the roles that these women played on..."

June 21, 1996 Movie Review by Alison Macor

Steal Big, Steal Little

"...Mona Rowland-Downey (played by Taylor, a dead ringer for Vanessa Redgrave), a wealthy and compassionate woman with a grand..."

Oct. 6, 1995 Movie Review by Alison Macor

Coriolanus

Ralph Fiennes directs this terrific contemporary update of Shakespeare's timeless play about war.

"...Ralph Fiennes. Starring: Ralph Fiennes, Gerard Butler, Brian Cox, Vanessa Redgrave, Jessica Chastain and James Nesbitt...."

March 2, 2012 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Letters to Juliet

There's a lovely little arthouse movie buried in this romance starring Amanda Seyfried, although the film's commercial aspirations get in its way.

"...Directed by: Gary Winick. Starring: Amanda Seyfried, Vanessa Redgrave, Christopher Egan and Gael García Bernal. Is Gary..."

May 14, 2010 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Mrs. Dalloway

"...Directed by: Marleen Gorris. Starring: Vanessa Redgrave, Rupert Graves, Michael Kitchen, Natascha Mcelhone, John Standing,..."

March 27, 1998 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Mother's Boys

"...Starring: Jamie Lee Curtis, Peter Gallagher, Joanne Whalley-Kilmer and Vanessa Redgrave. Another “evil outsider in the family” film, along..."

April 22, 1994 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Evening

Featuring the work of a great many fine actresses, this movie is less than the sum of its parts and runs aground while trying to create a mountain from a molehill.

"...Directed by: Lajos Koltai. Starring: Claire Danes, Vanessa Redgrave, Toni Collette, Natasha Richardson, Patrick Wilson, Hugh Dancy,..."

June 29, 2007 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Whistleblower

The international crime of human sex trafficking is the subject of this melodramatic and often harrowing drama.

"...Kondracki. Starring: Rachel Weisz, David Strathairn, Nikolas Lie Kaas, Vanessa Redgrave, Roxana Condurache, Monica Bellucci, Rayisa Kondracki and Anna..."

Aug. 19, 2011 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

A Month by the Lake

"...Directed by: John Irvin. Starring: Vanessa Redgrave, Edward Fox, Uma Thurman, Alida Valli, Carlo Cartier..."

Oct. 13, 1995 Movie Review by Steve Davis

The Ballad of the Sad Cafe

"...Directed by: Simon Callow. Starring: Vanessa Redgrave, David Carradine, Cork Hubbert and Rod Steiger. First..."

June 7, 1991 Movie Review by Kathleen Maher

Summer Sneaks

Apocalypse Whenever: Movies in the Season of Armageddon

"...Leoni, Morgan Freeman, Elijah Wood, Robert Duvall, Maximilian Schell, Vanessa Redgrave...."

May 22, 1998 Screens Feature

Anonymous

Normally a maker of big, explosive movies, Roland Emmerich directs this conspiracy-minded potboiler which questions the veracity of Shakespeare's authorship.

"...Directed by: Roland Emmerich. Starring: Rhys Ifans, Vanessa Redgrave, Joely Richardson, David Thewlis, Sebastian Armesto, Rafe Spall,..."

Oct. 28, 2011 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Pledge

"...Jack Nicholson, Robin Wright, Aaron Eckhart, Benicio Del Toro, Vanessa Redgrave, Helen Mirren, Patricia Clarkson, Mickey Rourke and Harry..."

Jan. 26, 2001 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

TV Eye

Could Paris Hilton or Jonathan Antin teach Dubya a thing or two about how to work it?

"...this marvelous, though uneven, drama about Miami plastic surgeons. Vanessa Redgrave guests as Julia's mother (Joely Richardson, Redgrave's real-life..."

June 18, 2004 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

Déjà Vu

"...Directed by: Henry Jaglom. Starring: Victoria Foyt, Stephen Dillane, Vanessa Redgrave, Michael Brandon, Glynis Barber, Noel Harrison, Anna Massey,..."

June 19, 1998 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Film Reviews

Recommended

"...PERSUASIOND: Roger Michell; with Amanda Root, Ciaran Hinds, Corin Redgrave, Phoebe Nicholls, Sophie Thompson, Fiona Shaw. (PG, 104 min.)..."

Nov. 3, 1995 News Feature

Film Reviews

Recommended

"...PERSUASIOND: Roger Michell; with Amanda Root, Ciaran Hinds, Corin Redgrave, Phoebe Nicholls, Sophie Thompson, Fiona Shaw. (PG, 104 min.)..."

Oct. 27, 1995 News Feature

Finding Your Feet

Upper class British rom-com plays for laughs.

"...joie de vivre. Perhaps it’s a follow-up to the Vanessa Redgrave/Terence Stamp starrer Unfinished Song, in which a grumpy..."

April 20, 2018 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Letters @ 3AM

Snippets of conversations about movies from the Filmcraft collection

"...Vanessa Redgrave: "One important thing to understand and trust is..."

April 11, 2008 Column by Michael Ventura

Articulations

A Northern California theatre director is combing through the massive Tennessee Williams archive in UT's Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center for another as-of-yet unstaged drama by the great playwright that he can bring into the spotlight á la Spring Storm.

"...Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, the same place where Vanessa Redgrave found Not About Nightingales, another pre-Menagerie drama that..."

July 12, 2002 Arts Column by Robert Faires

All Wrapped Up

From biopics to end-of-day thrillers, a look at the films you'll be standing in line for this Christmas.

"...Hall, Cherry Jones, Angus MacFadyen, Bill Murray, Ruben Blades, Vanessa Redgrave, Susan Sarandon, John Turturro...."

Nov. 26, 1999 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Looking for Richard

"...Kline, James Earl Jones, Derek Jacobi, John Gielgud, and Vanessa Redgrave, are likely to be recognized; the academic scholars,..."

Nov. 1, 1996 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Cradle Will Rock

"...Blades, Angus Macfadyen, Bill Murray, John Turturro, Susan Sarandon, Vanessa Redgrave, Cherry Jones, Hank Azaria, John Cusack and Emily..."

Jan. 21, 2000 Movie Review by Russell Smith

Tennessee: Lost - and Found - In Texas

"...it seriously. But then it caught the attention of Vanessa Redgrave, and within a very short time, it became..."

May 29, 1998 Arts Feature

Little Odessa

"...James Gray. Starring: Tim Roth, Edward Furlong, Moira Kelly, Vanessa Redgrave and Maximilian Schell. So austerely realized that it..."

July 14, 1995 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Burn, Witch, Burn

The Pope still loathes Ken Russell's 'The Devils,' and with good reason

"...the eye of the Papacy features fiery scenes of Vanessa Redgrave playing auto-erotic fiddlesticks with a crucifix and –..."

Sept. 22, 2013 Screens Post by Marc Savlov

'Necessary Targets': A Reason for Revisiting Bosnia

The Paradox Players believe Eve Ensler's play about the decade-old Bosnian war is as timely as ever

"...film actresses such as Meryl Streep, Anjelica Huston, and Vanessa Redgrave were so interested in performing an Eve Ensler..."

June 20, 2008 Arts Feature by Barry Pineo

The White Countess

The final collaboration between director Ivory and producer Ismail Merchant is a gorgeous slice of Merchant Ivoryisms (thanks in large part to the lushly vertiginous cinematography of DP Christopher Doyle) that nevertheless fails to equal the team’s greatest works.

"...Directed by: James Ivory. Starring: Ralph Fiennes, Natasha Richardson, Vanessa Redgrave, Lynn Redgrave, Madeleine Potter, Hiroyuki Sanada and Allan..."

Feb. 3, 2006 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Poetry in Emotion

Katherine Catmull never intended to pursue a career in acting. In fact, she seriously avoided it for as long as she could, choosing instead to earn her degree in English literature. Why is revealed in this profile of one of Austin's most sophisticated and literate performers.

"...laughs, then continues: "You never have that worry with Vanessa Redgrave. All the time she's thrilling you, you never..."

Oct. 6, 2000 Arts Feature by Robi Polgar

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