Nov 10, 2023
Dir.: Tony Palmer; Cast: Simon Callow, Michael Ball, Rebecca Front, Lucy Speed, Nina Young, Robert Stephens, Corin Redgrave, Guy Henry; UK 1995, 158 min.
Director Tony Palmer excels in biopic dramas...
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Nov 8, 2023
Dir: Richard Fleischer | Cast: Robert Mitchum, Ursula Thiess, Gilbert Roland, Zachary Scott | US Action Drama 92’
In his memoirs director Richard Fleischer gave a harrowing account of the horrors...
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Nov 5, 2023
Dir: Stanley Kubrick | Cast: Kirk Douglas, Adolphe Menjou, Ralph Meeker, George Macready | USA 1958, 87 min.
Paths of Glory was Kubrick's first foray into the battlefield, based on the...
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Nov 2, 2023
Dir.: G.W. Pabst; Cast: Louise Brooks, Fritz Kortner, Franz Lederer, Carl Götz, Alice Roberts, Daisy d’Ora, Alice Roberts; Germany 1928, 135'.
Based on two plays by the German playwright Frank Wedekind...
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Oct 31, 2023
Director: Henri-Georges Clouzot | Cast: Simone Signoret, Paul Meurisse, Charles Vanel, Véra Clouzot | Thriller | French | 117min
Hitchcock considered Henri-Georges Clouzot his arch enemy in the world of suspense, and Psycho...
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Oct 31, 2023
Dir: Rowland V Lee | Cast: Boris Karloff, Basil Rathbone, Béla Lugosi, Lionel Atwill, Josephine Hutchinson | US Horror 99'
In Gods and Monsters Ian McKellen (playing the director James Whale)...
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Oct 27, 2023
Marlon Brando, James Mason, John Gielgud. Louis Calhern, Edmond O’Brian, Greer Garson, Deborah Kerr | US drama 121’
Joe Mankiewicz had contributed enough black ink to the ledgers of Hollywood to...
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Oct 8, 2023
Dir: Terence Davies | UK Drama | 83'
Davies’s epic, musical celebration of the working class evokes a late 40s to late 50s cultural space. This was soon to be replaced...
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Sep 26, 2023
In 1963 Joseph Losey’s huge success with The Servant gave him carte blanche with his next project.
Since the following year marked the fiftieth anniversary of the start of the First...
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