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...

One of the major rediscoveries on Blu-Ray/DVD has been John Guillermin’s 1965 film RAPTURE. This remarkable work had almost vanished from film history. On its initial release American critics were...

DIE FINANZEN DES GROSSHERZOGS (THE FINANCES OF THE GRAND DUKE) Dir.: F.W. Murnau; Cast: Mady Christians, Harry Liedtke, Robert Scholz, Alfred Abel; Germany 1924, 80 min. This attempt at a satirical comedy...

Dir. Robert Aldrich | Cast: James Stewart, Richard Attenborough, Hardy Kruger, Peter Finch, Christian Marquand | USA 1965, 142 min. Robert Aldrich (1918-1983) was an underrated mainstream director in Hollywood, mostly...