Reviews

Dir: Sergei Eisenstein | Cast: Grigoriy Aleksandrov, Aleksandr Antonov, Mikail Gomorov | USSR 1923, 5’ Conceived like Orson Welles' Too Much Johnson fifteen years later as augmenting a stage production. Before...

Dirs: Hao Wu, Weixi Chen, Anonymous | Wri: Hao Wu | Doc, 2020 China, 91' Not as hard-hitting as you would imagine, and in some ways faintly amusing given the repercussions...

Dir. Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger Cast: Moira Shearer, Ludmilla Tcherina, Ann Ayars, Robert Rounseville, Leonide Massine UK 1951, 138 min. Jacques Offenbach’s The Tales of Hoffmann was his final, unfinished work, his only...

Dir.: Hafstein Gunnar Sigurdsson; Cast.: Steinthor Steinporsson, Edda Bjorgvinsdottir, Sigurdur Sigurjonsson, Lara Johanna Jonsdottir, Pornsteinn Bachmann, Selma Bjornsdottir; Iceland//Denmark/Poland/Germany 2017, 89 min. In this urban satire, Hafstein Gunnar Sigurdsson (Rams) pulls off...

Dir:  Compton Bennett | Wri: Muriel and Sydney Box | Cast: James Mason, Ann Todd, Herbert Los, Hugh McDermott | UK Drama, 91; Compton Bennett started life as a bandleader and...

Dir: Andrei Konchalovsky | Drama, Russia 120' Veteran Russian director Andrei Konchalovsky uncovers a little known episode of the Nikita Krushchev era - the Novercherkassk Massacre  of June 1962 - in...

Dir/Wri: Gavin Rothery | Cast: Theo James, Stacy Martin, Rhona Mitra, Toby Jones, Peter Ferdinando, Richard Glover, Lia Williams Just before my father died I thought about how brilliant it would be...

Dir.: Bogdan George Apetri; Cast: Bogdan Farcas, Dragos Domitru, Vasile Muraru, Ana Popescu, Kira Hagi, Andrei Aradits; Romania/Latvia/Czech Republic 2020, 123 min. Very much in the style of the classic French...

Dir: Otto Preminger, Jean Negulesco | Cast: Robert Mitchum, Marilyn Monroe, Rory Calhoun | US Western 91’ Rather more rugged to make than Marilyn Monroe was accustomed to, she recalled River...