Dir: Iain Softley | Writer: Hossein Amini Cast: Helena Bonham Carter, Linus Roche, Alex Jennings, Charlotte Rampling, Ben Miles, Michael Gambon 102min | UK | Drama In 1910 London, Kate Croy (Helena Bonham...

Dir.: Robert Aldrich; Cast: Burt Lancaster, Charles Durning, Melvyn Douglas, Joseph Cotton, Richard Widmark; USA/West Germany 1977, 146 min. TWILIGHT'S LAST GLEAMING sees director Robert Aldrich (Kiss me Deadly, The Dirty...

Dir.: Ettore Scola; Cast: Sophia Loren, Marcello Mastroianni, John Vernon; Italy/France 1977, 110 min. Ettore Scola (1931-2016) usually showed the tragic side of life in Italy in a rather romanticised way,...

Writer|Director: Tobias Nölle Cast: Georg Friedrich, Tilde von Overbeck, Kamil Krejci, Yufei Li 91min  | Drama  | Switzerland Tobias Nölle's second feature is a coldly rendered exploration of loneliness and isolation made all the...

Dir.: Vittorio de Sica Cast: Sophia Loren, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Eleonora Brown Italy/France 1960, 100 min. After the box-office failure of Umberto D. – perhaps his greatest achievement – Vittorio De Sica turned for...

Dir.: Francois Truffaut; Cast: Jacqueline Bisset, Valentina Cortese, Jean-Pierre Aumont) Alexandra Stewart, Jean-Pierre Laud, Francois Truffaut, Natalie Baye; France 1972/3, 116 min. With DAY FOR NIGHT, his fourteenth feature film, Truffaut...

Dir.: Nicholas Roeg; Cast: David Bowie, Candy Clark, Rip Torn, Buck Henry UK 1976, 139 min. Director Nicholas Roeg (Don’t Look Now) films Paul Meyersberg’s script of Walter Tevis’ novel of the...

THE EMIGRANTS (UTVANDRARNA)/THE NEW LAND (NYBYGGRNA) Dir. Jan Troell; Cast: Max von Sydow, Liv Ullmann, Eddie Axberg, Allan Edwall, Monica Zetterlund, Eva-Lena Zetterlund, Pierre Lindstedt; Sweden 1971/72, 151 min. (The Emigrants),...

Dir: Bennet Miller | Philip Seymour Hoffman, Catherine Keener, Chris Cooper, Before watching Capote, in the cinema, in 2005, I hadn’t read In Cold Blood. Afterwards I bought a copy and...