Dir.: Jacques Demy; Cast: Catherine Deneuve, Anne Vernon, Ellen Farmer, Nino Castelnuovo, Marc Michel, Mireille Perrey; France/West Germany 1964, 91 min. Jacques Demy (1931-1990) was a unique and multi-talented filmmaker who...

Director: Luchino Visconti | Cast: Alain Delon, Annie Girardot, Renato Salvatori, Katina Paxinou, Claudia Cardinale, Spiras Focas, Max Cartier | Italy 1960, 180’ After La Terra Trema (1948), Visconti returned to...

Wri/Dir: Guy Maddin | Comedy drama 100’ 1992 The tales produced by Canadian director Guy Maddin often resemble silent films and his first in colour looked as if it had been...

Dir.: G.W. Pabst; Cast: Louise Brooks, Fritz Kortner, Franz Lederer, Carl Götz, Alice Roberts, Daisy d’Ora, Alice Roberts; Germany 1928, 135 min. Based on two plays by the German playwright Frank...

Dir: Paul McGuigan | UK Thriller 103' A sweary bit of brutal British gangster violence offers a stylish depiction of the Kray Brothers’ era, elevated to a cult classic by a...

Dir: Robert Wise | Cast: Julie Harris, Claire Bloom, Richard Johnson | Thriller 1963 Like 'The Day the Earth Stood Still' Robert Wise's 'The Haunting' received the backhanded compliment of an...

Dir: F W Murnau | Germany. 1921 Described by Siegfried Kracauer as "a crime picture visibly influenced by the Swedes" and itself a probable forerunner of La Regle du Jeu, the...

Dir: Sidney Lumet | Cast: Henry Fonda, Walter Matthau | US Political thriller In the Simpsons episode 'Sideshow Bob's Last Gleaming', in addition to the predictabe references to Dr Strangelove, the...

Dir: Charles Saunders | Cast: Ronald Howard, Olga Edwardes | Jack Bentley | UK Drama 58’ This is the sort of film that should be obligatory viewing for students of the...