Reviews

Byron Haskin | Cast: Lisabeth Scott, Don DeFore, Dan Duryea, Arthur Kennedy | US Noir 99’ Don't expect the tear-jerker the title might lead you to anticipate. To paraphrase Godard, all...

Dir: Henry Levin | Cast: Nina Foch, Stephen Crane, Barton MacClane, Osa Massen, Blanche Yurka | US thriller 63’ The rather unlikely directoral debut of Henry Levin, Cry of the Werewolf...

Dir: Fred Cavaye | Cast: Daniel Auteuil, Gilles Lellouche, Sara Giraudeau | France, Drama 115' Daniel Auteuil is the quietly mesmerising star turn in Fred Cavaye’s sombre but satisfying occupation drama...

Dir: Fritz Lang | Cast: Gary Cooper, Robert Alda, Lilli Palmer, Vladimir Sokolof, US 106’ Thriller Made during that brief period just after the war before commies took over from nazis...

Dir: Apichatpong Weerasethakul | Thailand, Fantasy Drama 139' Memoria is the delicately mesmerising and meditative first English language film from Thai artist and film-maker Apichatpong Weerasethakul.   Well known for his awarded experimental...

Dir: Stuart Heisler | Cast: Linda Darnell, Dan Duryea, Rick Jason, Faith Domergue | US Drama 91 Just as birds descended from dinosaurs, so the film noir of the forties morphed...

Dir: Werner Reiner Fassbinder | Cast: Ron Randell, Hanna Schygulla, Katrin Schaake, Harry Baer | 85' Germany, Drama Never released commercially, Whity remains one of Fassbinder's least seen films, and when...

Roald Dahl's name on the script should have meant a wittier and more grotesque adventure than this; although the car full of goons plucked off the road by a giant...

Dir/Wri: Oscar Micheaux | US Drama 79' In his provocative 1980 article in 'Film Comment', 'Bad Films', James Hoberman concentrated almost exclusively on Oscar Micheaux's thirties sound films in painting Micheaux...