Dir.: Francois Truffaut; Cast: Jacqueline Bisset, Valentina Cortese, Jean-Pierre Aumont) Alexandra Stewart, Jean-Pierre Laud, Francois Truffaut, Natalie Baye; France 1972/3, 116 min. Natalie Baye, who has died aged 77, rose to...

Kinaesthesia celebrates the centenary of the “dream film” in cinema and its years of flowering during the silent film period. Featuring an original score and including stunning newly digitally remastered...

Dir.: Jan Komasa; Cast: Bartosz Bielenia, Aleksandra Konieczna, Eliza Rycenbel, Tomasz Zietek, Barbara Kurzaj, Zdzislas Wurdejn, Lukasz Simlat, Poland 2019, 115 min Director Jan Komasa (Warsaw ’44) adapts Mateusz Palewicz’s extraordinary story...

Dir.: Akira Kurosawa; Cast: Toshiro Mifune, Machiko Kyö, Masayuki Mori, Takashi Shimra, Minoru Chiaki, Kichijioru Ueda; Japan 1950; 88 min. From Agatha Christie to Patricia Highsmith modern literature is fraught with...

Dir: King Vidor | Cast| Clark Gable, Hedy Lamar | US 1940 104’ Reviewed by Richard Chatten An ersatz 'Ninotchka' - later dismissed by its director as an "insignificant light comedy" -...

Dir: Lewis Gilbert | Cast: Kenneth More, Danielle Darrieux, Susannah York, Jane Asher | UK Drama 100’ Reviewed by Richard Chatten Jane Asher declared that the best kiss she ever had was...

Dir: Reiner Werner Fassbinder | Germany TV Drama 116’ Reviewed by Richard Chatten Some of Fassbinder's best work (notably 'Ich will doch nur, daß ihr mich liebt', 1976) was made for TV,...

Dir: Jacques Tourneur | Rory Calhoun, Gene Tierney | Western Drama 97’ Reviewed by Richard Chatten Jacques Tourneur arrived in Argentina to make this late addition to Hollywood's good neighbour policy a...

Dir: F.W. Murnau | Cast: Charles Farrell, Mary Duncan | Drama Reviewed by Richard Chatten For his Hollywood debut, 'Sunrise' (1927), F.W.Murnau famously had built an enormous set depicting a city...