“Fact was that the high price actors there were back up on the studio, like Cary Grant and so on, they got all the lights.. so [Out of the Past] was lit with cigarettes.” - Robert Mitchum

Starring Bette Davis/Gowns by Orry-Kelly. Essential collaboration.

Forget Molly Brown, this is Debbie Reynolds' best performance.

I imagine it must have been intimidating to act opposite Bette Davis but there’s no reason to over play it so much of the time, Miriam Hopkins.

Jill Clayburgh, Barbara Hershey and Martha Plimpton. A trifecta of criminally underrated actresses.

More people need to talk about Lee Remick in Days of Wine and Roses.

Garbo is so exquisite when she's in love.

Lillian Gish proving that a great actress is never 'past her prime'.

Watching Paul Newman with Alex North’s score reminds me of Jeanne Moreau and Miles Davis’ work in Elevator to the Gallows. Maybe not as sophisticated but still very sexy.

Barbara Stanwyck can do more with melodrama than any other actor I’ve ever seen. She possesses a special ability to take something potentially sappy on the page and turn it into something genuinely honest on the screen.

James Cagney in a true star performance, the kind that is absolutely nonexistent in film today.

John Barrymore and Carole Lombard match wits perfectly.

Unfortunately the film suffers from the lack of chemistry between Garbo and March.

Marie-Christine Barrault has a special way of lighting up the screen.

Miss Lonelyhearts!

In a career filled with great performances I don't know if Joanne Woodward has ever been better than in Rachel, Rachel. Working under the direction of her husband Paul Newman, this very well might be their masterpiece.

I love her most when she's meanest, because I know that's when she's lovin' most.

One of Joan Crawford's very best performances. Her final scene is perfection.

I'm sick of seeing Anne Hathaway naked all the time.

I remember this was the very first time I had seen Charlotte Rampling on screen. I haven’t been the same since.

Best performance by a tracheotomy to win an Academy Award?

Audrey Hepburn who? No one can top Wendy Hiller's Eliza Doolittle. One of the finest performances in cinema.

Will someone please give Susan Sarandon a decent part?

Oy vey. Watching a Julia Roberts movie is never the right answer.

Diane Keaton had quite the year in 1977. With this film and her Academy Award winning performance in Annie Hall, Keaton shows her impressive and gifted range. I only wish she could still get these kind of calibre parts nowadays. Why do all the roles for older actresses go to Meryl Streep?

Pathetic.

That bad Eartha!

Much better than I remembered it to be. I would have given Elaine May an Academy Award!

This was one of the scariest experiences of my childhood.

Kevin Conroy will always be my favourite Batman.