Tag: Bugsy Malone
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My streaming gem: why you should watch The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane
Continuing our series of writers picking out lesser-known gems available to stream is an ode to a murderous Jodie Foster thrillerCinema’s murderous children are legion, but Jodie Foster’s Rynn Jacobs in 1976’s The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane often falls among the forgotten. It was understandable given the especially prolific year she was…
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Alan Parker Remembered By Andrew Lloyd Webber, Matthew Modine: ‘One of the Few Directors to Truly Understand Musicals on Screen’
Actors and directors took to social media to pay tribute to British director Alan Parker, who died Friday. The filmmaker behind “Evita, “The Commitments” and “Bugsy Malone” was 76.Parker’s first feature film was 1976’s “Bugsy Malone.” He directed over 25 films, and his last film was “The Life of David Gale” starring Kevin Spacey and…
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Alan Parker, Director of ‘Midnight Express,’ ‘Mississippi Burning’ and ‘Bugsy Malone,’ Dead at 76
Alan Parker, the Oscar-nominated English filmmaker whose diverse line-up of credits include Bugsy Malone, Midnight Express, Pink Floyd: The Wall, Angel Heart, Mississippi Burning, The Commitments, Evita, and Angela’s Ashes, has passed away following a long illness. He was 76 years old. Born on February 14, 1944 in Islington, North London, Parker began his career…
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My favourite film aged 12: Bugsy Malone
The musical where cocktail-sipping kids pretend to be adults has a seam of pure feelgood that makes real life feel far awayI was sitting in my living room with my big brother and dad when a loud Bang on the ceiling made us jump. “What was that?” I asked. Back in the noughties, televisions were…