Reviews

Dir.: Bert Stern, Aram Avakian; Documentary with Theolonious Monk, Anita O'Day, Louis Armstrong, Mahalia Jackson, Chico Hamilton, Chuck Berry; USA 1959, 85 min. This documentary of the Newport Jazz Festival that...

Dir.: Ayten Amin; Cast: Bassant Ahmed, Basmala Elghaiesh, Hager Mahmoud, Hussain Ghanem, Carol Ackad, Sarah Shedid, Islam Shalaby, Mona Elnamoury; Egypt/Germany/ Tunisia, 96 min. Egyptian director/co-writer Ayten Anin (Villa 69) offers...

Dir.: Gillies MacKinnon; Cast: Timothy Spall, Phyllis Logan, Natalie Mitson, Ben Ewing; UK 2021, 86 min. The Last Bus is something between a feel-good-movie and an elegy on death in modern...

Dir: Don Edmonds | US Drama The commonly made observation that a particular old film today looks tame by modern standards always depresses me, representing as it does, a reflection on...

Dir.: John Frankenheimer; Cast: Talia Shire, Robert Foxworth, Richard Dysart; USA 1979, 102 min. US filmmaker John Frankenheimer (1930-2002), director of the original Manchurian Candidate, started out, like Sidney Lumet, directing...

Dir: Sidney Lumet | Wri: Morton S Fine | Cast: Rod Steiger, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Brock Peters, Jaime Sanchez | US Thriller 116' Director Sidney Lumet's gritty New-York set Nazi survivalist movie...

Dir.: Benh Zeitlin; Cast: Devin France, Yashua Mack, Gage Naquin, Gavin Naquin, Kevin Pugh, Shay Walker; USA 2020, 111 min. Benh Zeitlin’s Beasts of the Southern Wild was a breakout hit with its...

Dir: Clive Donner | Writer: Frederick Raphael | Cast: Peter O'Toole, John Standing, Alistair Sim, Harold Pinter, Robert Lang, Cyd Hayman, Philip Jackson, Maureen Lipman | UK Drama | 103' Peter...

Dir: Arthur Maria Rabenalt | Cast: Hildegard Knef, Erich von Stroheim, Trude Hesterberg, Denise Vernac, Harry Holm | Fantasy Drama 92' The fifth and - to date - last film version...