Reviews

Dir: Gordon Douglas | US Drama 99’ This unusual title - aka Elephants Never Forget - is familiar to most cinephiles as Oliver Hardy's one starring vehicle of the sound era without Stan...

Dir/Wri: Asghar Farhadi | Cast: Amir Jadidi, Mohsen Tanabandeh, Fereshteh Sadre Orafaiy, Sahar Goldust | Iran Drama 127' Another moral satire from Asghar Farhadi that mulls over truth, honesty and family life...

Dir: Jack Arnold | Cast: Jeff Chandler, Jack Carson, Jeanne Crain, Gail Russell | US Noir, 93' The Tattered Dress is the second of four programmers released by Universal in 1957 directed...

Dir: Orlando von Einsiedel | UK Doc | 95' A quietly moving exploration of grief is set in the Highlands of Scotland and the glorious summer seascapes of Cumbria where a...

Dir.: Francois Truffaut; Cast: Jean-Pierre Léaud, Claire Maurier, Albert Rémy, Guy Decomble, Patrick Auffay, Georges Flamant; France 1959, 100 min. Francois Truffaut was banned from attending the Cannes Film Festival in 1959...

Dir: Shue Matsubayashi | Japan Sci-fi, 110’ Made the year before the Cuban Missile Crisis; even in the dubbed and abbreviated version I've just watched on YouTube (the original was half...

Dir: Joseph Lejtes | Cast: Tadeusz Bialoszczyn, Witold Zacharewicz, Jerzy Pichelski | Poland, Drama 92’ The victory of the Polish military leader Tadeusz Kościuszko (1746-1817) over Poland's Russian occupiers at the...

Dir: Anthony Page | Cast: Richard Burton, Dominic Guard, David Bradley, Billy Connelly | UK Drama 95' You never knew during his later years whether Richard Burton was going to just...

Sensationalism in the media is not a new trend: as early as 1930, film production companies have been luring audiences into cinemas with spectacular war films, swashbuckling historical dramas and...