Aug 1, 2024
Dir: Francis Searle | Cast:· Michael Medwin. Ronnie Martin · Garry Marsh. Kapel · Yvonne Owen. Sally Martin · Hugh Latimer | UK Comedy drama 1950
A young Michael Medwin overacts...
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Jul 31, 2024
Dir: Lenny Abrahamson Writers: Jon Ronson and Peter Staughan | Cast: Domnhall Gleeson, Michael Fassbender, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Scoot McNairy | 94mins UK Drama
Based in his native Dublin, Lenny Abrahamson's latest...
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Jul 29, 2024
Douglas Sirk (1897-1987) started life as Detlef Sierck in Berlin (UFA), spending his early years in his parents' native Denmark and Hamburg before emigrating via France to Los Angeles just...
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Jul 27, 2024
Dir: David Drury | Cast: Gabriel Byrne, Denholm Elliott, Greta Scacchi, Ian Bannen | UK political thriller 96’
Opening with a night scene taking place in East Anglia but rather strangely...
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Jul 25, 2024
Dir: Alexandre Tsutsunava | Georgia, Silent, Historical drama 190'
On the final night of the festival, on 21st July, we took to the deckchairs in Mestia's main square to watch this...
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Jul 23, 2024
Dir: Charles Frend | UK Comedy
The last and least of his Ealing comedies - dismissed by Alec Guinness as "the wretched, boring 'Barnacle Bill' - which I never wanted to...
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Jul 22, 2024
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock | Cast: Ray Milland Grace Kelly | Thriller 90’
Alfred Hitchcock doesn't get sufficient credit for his technical enterprise which here comes into full play in his exploitation...
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Jul 22, 2024
Dir.: Michelangelo Antonioni; Cast: Jack Nicholson, Maria Schneider, Jenny Runacre, Ian Hendry; Italy/France/Spain 1975, 126 min.
In nearly all of Antonioni’s features the leading protagonists go missing: Aldo in El Grido...
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