Oct 21, 2023
This year's VIENNALE retrospective is dedicated to the Chilean director, writer and poet Raúl Ernesto Ruiz Pino.
Ruiz - who was born in Chile in 1941 - was exiled after Pinochet's...
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Oct 20, 2023
Dir: Laurence Olivier | Cast: Laurence Olivier, Claire Bloom, Cedric Hardwicke, John Gielgud, Ralph Richardson | UK Drama 151’
Olivier's third cinematic version of Shakespeare - the fourth if you count...
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Oct 17, 2023
Cinema Unbound: The Creative Worlds of Powell + Pressburger is a major UK-wide celebration of one of the greatest and most enduring filmmaking partnerships: Michael Powell (1905-1990) and Emeric Pressburger (1902-1988).
Bold,...
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Oct 16, 2023
Dir: Michael Powell | Leo Marks | Cast: Anna Massey, Karlheinz Bohm, Moira Shearer, Maxine Audley | Brenda Bruce, Miles Malleson | UK Horror, 101'
Raymond Durgnat later observed that this...
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Oct 8, 2023
Dir: Daniel Mann | Cast: Brock Peters · Melba Moore · Raymond St. Jacques · Clifton Davis · Paul Rogers.
The best known version of Alan Paton's acclaimed novel is Alexander...
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Oct 3, 2023
Dir: Rudolph Mate. | Cast: Edmond O’Brian, Pamela Britton, Luther Adler, Beverly Garland | US Drama 83’
With a title like that I think I'm safe in discussing this film's plot...
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Aug 29, 2023
To blame women for this seems odd, but the tendency of the female as a crime perpetrator is already clear in this pre-war film by Pierre Chenal LE DERNIER TOURNANT...
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Aug 26, 2023
Dir: Richard Quine | Cast: William Holden, Audrey Hepburn, Grégoire Aslan | Drama 110’
When he decided to remake Julien Duvivier's La Fete a Henriette (1952), was it screenwriter George Axelrod's...
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Aug 24, 2023
Alexandra's Dean biopic: BOMBSHELL: THE HEDY LAMARR STORY looks back over the outstanding career of a Hollywood star with intellect as well as high octane chutzpah.
Far more people are likely today...
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