Feb 14, 2024
Dir: Jean Leon | Cast: Sophie Daumier, Guy Bedos, Grégoire Aslan | Drama 100’
The title suggests a saucy Parisian sex comedy but the knowledge that Roman Polanski collaborated on the...
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Feb 6, 2024
Dir: Dorothy Arzner, Otto Brower, Edmund Goulding || Cast: Jean Arthur, Clara Bow, Gary Cooper, Fredric March, Maurice Chevalier | US Musical 102’
Paramount on Parade displays little of the imagination of...
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Feb 3, 2024
Dir: Dorothy Arzner | US Drama 63’
Interesting to compare this rather demure affair with the one pictured nearly a hundred years later in HOW TO HAVE SEX (2023).
Far from being...
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Jan 20, 2024
Dir: Anatole Litvak | Cast: Peter O’Toole, Albert Finney, Tom Courtney | US Action Drama
When Sam Spiegel engaged Peter O'Toole for the title role in Lawrence of Arabia it...
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Jan 18, 2024
Wri/Dir: Thomas von Steinaecker | With: Werner Herzog, Chloe Zhao, Joshua Oppenheimer, Patti Smith, Robert Pattinson, Carl Weathers, Wim Wenders, Christian Bale, Nicole Kidman | Volker Schlondorff | Klaus Kinski,...
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Jan 15, 2024
Dir: Werner Herzog | Cast: Bruno S, Volker Prechtel, Gloria Dor, Willy Semmelrogge, Brigitte Mira, Walter Ladengast | 109min, Germany
Werner Herzog drifts into visionary territory with a film based on...
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Jan 10, 2024
Dir: Lewis Gilbert | Cast: Aiden Quinn, Kate Beckinsale, John Gielgud, Anna Massey | UK Fantasy horror 95’
Based on a novel by James Holborn, like 'Don't Look Now' this film...
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Jan 9, 2024
Dir: Takeshi Kitano | Cast: Takeshi Kitano, Kayoko Kishimoto, Ren Osugi, Susumu Terajima, Tetsu Watanabe | Japan 98'
There's a serene stillness that takes all the horror away from the unexpected...
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Jan 6, 2024
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock | Cast: Michael Redgrave, Margaret Lockwood, Basil Redford, Naunton Wayne, Catherine Lacey, Googie Withers | UK Thriller 90’
The Lady Vanishes probably represented the apex of Hitchcock's Gainsborough...
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