Oct 22, 2023
Dir: Raul Ruiz | Drama, Chile
After winning the Golden Leopard for his debut Three Sad Tigers (1968) A Wandering Soap Opera was - to all intents and purposes - his...
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Oct 22, 2023
Raúl Ruiz | Drama, Chile 100'
Ruiz’s lively debut is perhaps the purest form of cinema verite and social realism, giving a fascinating snapshot of ordinary people in Chile in the...
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Oct 21, 2023
This year's VIENNALE retrospective is dedicated to the Chilean director, writer and poet Raúl Ernesto Ruiz Pino.
Ruiz - who was born in Chile in 1941 - was exiled after Pinochet's...
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Oct 20, 2023
Dir: Laurence Olivier | Cast: Laurence Olivier, Claire Bloom, Cedric Hardwicke, John Gielgud, Ralph Richardson | UK Drama 151’
Olivier's third cinematic version of Shakespeare - the fourth if you count...
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Oct 17, 2023
Cinema Unbound: The Creative Worlds of Powell + Pressburger is a major UK-wide celebration of one of the greatest and most enduring filmmaking partnerships: Michael Powell (1905-1990) and Emeric Pressburger (1902-1988).
Bold,...
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Oct 16, 2023
Dir: Michael Powell | Leo Marks | Cast: Anna Massey, Karlheinz Bohm, Moira Shearer, Maxine Audley | Brenda Bruce, Miles Malleson | UK Horror, 101'
Raymond Durgnat later observed that this...
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Oct 8, 2023
Dir: Daniel Mann | Cast: Brock Peters · Melba Moore · Raymond St. Jacques · Clifton Davis · Paul Rogers.
The best known version of Alan Paton's acclaimed novel is Alexander...
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Oct 3, 2023
Dir: Rudolph Mate. | Cast: Edmond O’Brian, Pamela Britton, Luther Adler, Beverly Garland | US Drama 83’
With a title like that I think I'm safe in discussing this film's plot...
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Aug 29, 2023
To blame women for this seems odd, but the tendency of the female as a crime perpetrator is already clear in this pre-war film by Pierre Chenal LE DERNIER TOURNANT...
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