Jun 21, 2024
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock | Priscilla Lane, Robert Cummings | US Thriller
Although largely forgotten today, ‘Saboteur’ was praised by Julian Maclaren-Ross in his seminal 1946 piece on Alfred Hitchcock, and represents...
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Jun 20, 2024
Dir.: Federico Fellini | Wri: Bernardino Zapponi | Cast: Donald Sutherland, Tina Aumont, Cicely Browne, Carmen Scapitta, Diane Kourys | Italy/USA 1976, 155 min.
Donald McNichol Sutherland (17 July 1935 - 20...
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Jun 19, 2024
Dir: Billy Wilder | Cast: William Holden, Gloria Swanson, Erich von Stroheim, Nancy Olson | US Drama 110'
Hollywood in its heyday is now so far removed it's practitioners have long...
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Jun 18, 2024
Director: Atiq Rahimi Writer: Jean-Claude Carriere and Ariq Rahimi | Cast: Golshifteh Farahani, Hamid Djavadan, Hassina Burgan, Massi Mrowat | 102min Drama
This poetic follow-up to Earth and Ashes is...
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Jun 15, 2024
The Seventies spawned a series of thrillers exposing the political tensions that were reverberating across Europe. It was a decade when the social turmoil that marked the late 1960s gave...
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Jun 5, 2024
Dir: Giuseppe De Santis | Cast Lucia Bosé, Carla del Poggio, Elena Varzi, Lea Padovani, Delia Scala, Raf Vallone, Massimo Girotti, Paolo Stoppa | Italy Drama 107’
Unusually among neo-realist dramas...
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Jun 4, 2024
Dir: Sydney Gilliatt | Cast: Peter Sellers, Mai Zetterling, David Attenborough, John Le Mesurier | UK drama
Kingsley Amis only agreed to allow Launder & Gilliatt to film his novel on...
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May 31, 2024
Dir: William A Wellman | Cast: Carole Lombard, Frederic Marc | US Comedy 77’
With the benefit of hindsight there's a bitter irony in Carole Lombard playing a girl defined by...
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May 27, 2024
Dir: Sheldon Reynolds | US Drama
The credits proudly declare this film 'Sheldon Reynolds' Foreign Intrigue', this being the film version of his TV series which he brought to the big...
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