May 27, 2024
Dir: Sheldon Reynolds | US Drama
The credits proudly declare this film 'Sheldon Reynolds' Foreign Intrigue', this being the film version of his TV series which he brought to the big...
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May 23, 2024
Dir: Frank Capra | Cast: Jean Harlow, Loretta Young, Robert Williams, Don Dillaway | US drama 89’
Don't be fooled by the title, Jean Harlow may have the title role, and...
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May 20, 2024
UK 1948. Dir Basil Dearden. With Joan Greenwood, Stewart Granger, Peter Bull,Flora Robson. 96min. U
The attention paid to Ealing's comedies has long been at the expense of their dramas, an...
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May 13, 2024
Dir: Carl Theodor Dreyer | Denmark, Drama 116’
A film that continues to cause controversy - Philip French once opined that if you could turn 'Gertrud' into a sleeping pill it...
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May 13, 2024
Dir: Elia Kazan | Cas: Montgomery Clift, Lee Remick, Jo Van Fleet | US Drama 110'
Probably Elia Kazan's greatest film, though seldom acknowledged as such. The film's failure both critical...
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May 11, 2024
Rossellini's War - an exploration of a 20th century war trilogy by Alan Price
There are very few war trilogies that dramatise and document a nation’s history throughout the significant stages...
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May 1, 2024
Dir: Andy Warhol | US Doc
The frequently reproduced shot illustrating Warhol's Empire misrepresents what the film is actually like to experience since the archetypal view of the Empire State Building...
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Apr 29, 2024
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock | John Forsythe, Shirley MacLaine, Edmund Gwenn, Mildred Natwick | UK Drama 99'
One of the qualities that makes the cinema so satisfying is its ability to preserve...
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Apr 27, 2024
Dir: Peter Greenaway | Cast: Anthony Higgins, Janet Suzman, Anne-Louise Lambert. Hugh Fraser | UK Drama 108’
The Draughtsman’s Contract, a film that is now over forty years old, was made...
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