Jul 27, 2024
Dir: David Drury | Cast: Gabriel Byrne, Denholm Elliott, Greta Scacchi, Ian Bannen | UK political thriller 96’
Opening with a night scene taking place in East Anglia but rather strangely...
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Jul 25, 2024
Dir: Alexandre Tsutsunava | Georgia, Silent, Historical drama 190'
On the final night of the festival, on 21st July, we took to the deckchairs in Mestia's main square to watch this...
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Jul 23, 2024
Dir: Charles Frend | UK Comedy
The last and least of his Ealing comedies - dismissed by Alec Guinness as "the wretched, boring 'Barnacle Bill' - which I never wanted to...
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Jul 22, 2024
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock | Cast: Ray Milland Grace Kelly | Thriller 90’
Alfred Hitchcock doesn't get sufficient credit for his technical enterprise which here comes into full play in his exploitation...
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Jul 22, 2024
Dir.: Michelangelo Antonioni; Cast: Jack Nicholson, Maria Schneider, Jenny Runacre, Ian Hendry; Italy/France/Spain 1975, 126 min.
In nearly all of Antonioni’s features the leading protagonists go missing: Aldo in El Grido...
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Jul 18, 2024
Dir: Robert Rossen | Cast: Mercedes McCambridge, Joanne Dru, John Ireland, Broderick Crawford | US Noir
John Carpenter's Escape from New York has always seemed deeply flawed by the central implausibility...
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Jul 14, 2024
Dir.: Stanley Kubrick; Cast: Keir Dullea, Gary Lockwood, William Sylvester, Leonard Rossiter, Margaret Tyzack; UK/USA 1968; 141 min.
Who better to define Science Fiction than Arthur C. Clarke, co-author of 2001:...
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Jul 5, 2024
Director.: Bela Tarr | Cast: Hedi Temessy, Erika Bodnar, Miklos B. Szekely, Janos Derzsi, Pal Hetenyi | 119min | Drama | Hungary
Autumn Almanac is a unique film in Tarr’s oeuvre:...
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Jul 4, 2024
Dir: Henry King | Cast: Alexander Knox, Geraldine Fitzgerald | US Biopic 154’
James Agee paid a backhanded tribute to the ambition of Darryl Zanuck when he began his review that...
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