The Name of the Rose (film) The Name of the Rose (film) The Name of the Rose is a 1986 Italian-French-German mystery historical drama film directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud, based on the book of the same name by Umberto Eco. Sean Connery stars as the Franciscan friar William of Baskerville and Christian Slater is his apprentice Adso of Melk; they are called upon to solve a deadly mystery in a medieval abbey. As an old man, Adso of Melk recounts how, in 1327, as a young Franciscan novice (a Benedictine one in the novel), he and his mentor, Franciscan friar William of Baskerville, traveled to a
The Avengers (1998 film) on the truncated released cut of the film, "New York Times"'s Janet Maslin noted, "At a pared-down, barely rational 90 minutes, "The Avengers" is short but not short enough." In 2003, "Total Film" magazine voted Fiennes and Thurman in "The Avengers" as "The Worst Movie Double Act Of All Time". The Avengers (1998 film) The Avengers is a 1998 American action spy film adaptation of the British television series of the same name directed by Jeremiah Chechik. It stars Ralph Fiennes and Uma Thurman as secret agents John Steed and Emma Peel, and Sean Connery as Sir August de Wynter,