Dir: Ken Russell | UK Doc-drama 82' The longest of his outings for the BBC Monitor series, this is an ambitious and gently flamboyant biopic that certainly reflects the hazy impressionism...

PRZYPADEK (BLIND CHANCE) 1987 | was Krzysztof Kieslowski’s most direct attack on the authorities, produced in 1981, it was shown only “underground” for six years. A sort of Sliding Doors...

Dir Rouben Mamoulian | Cast: Miriam Hopkins, Frances Dee, Cedric Hardwicke, Billie Burke | US Drama 84’ The first feature film shot entirely in the newly perfected Technicolor process, Becky Sharp...

Dir.: Massaki Kobayashi; Cast: Michiyo Aratama, Misako Watanabe, Renaro Mikuni, Tatsuya Nakadai, Keiko Kishi, Katsuo Nakamura, Tetsuo Tanba, Takashi Shimura, Hanuko Sugimura, Osamu Takizawa, Ganjiro Nakamura, Noburo Nakaya; Japan 1964,...

Dir: Robert Rossellini | Wri: Roberto Rossellini, Vitaliano Brancati | Cast: Ingrid Bergman, George Sanders, Maria Mauban | Drama, Italy/France, 86 In this groundbreaking film it is almost impossible to take your eyes...

The Comedies and Proverbs series brings together six of Éric Rohmer's best; the first entry in the series, The Aviator's Wife, sees François become obsessed with the idea that his...

Dir.: Billy Wilder | Cast: William Holden, Marthe Keller, Hildegard Knef, Frances Sternhagen, Mel Ferrer | France/W Germany | 116min. Since his last film Buddy, was just a remake of a...

Polish director Krzysztof Kieslowski (1941-1996) brings a raw emotional simplicity to his films that disarm even the hardest heart. Nothing is overstated or irrelevant in his sober depictions of human...

EISENSTEIN ON THE STEPS: Alan Price shares some thoughts on Sergei Eisenstein's 1925 epic that sees the crew of a Russian battleship mutiny against the brutal, tyrannical regime of the...