Reviews

French director Henri-Georges Clouzot (1907-1977) is best remembered for his dark thrillers and some of the greatest films of the 1950s.  The Wages of Fear won him the Palme d'Or at...

Dir: Gábor Bódy | Fantasy drama, Hungarian, 261' Hungarian director Bódy Gábor, (1946-1985, Budapest), was a provocateur and pioneer of the Hungarian 'New Sensibility' film movement whose controversial arthouse features garnered...

Dir: István Szabó | Drama, Hungarian 90' The lives of two woman are laid bare in this gentle exploration of the final days of Communism from Hungarian director István Szabó. Having...

Dir: Nico Mastorakis | Cast: Robert Morley, Meg Foster, Wings Hauser, David McCallum | Horror, 92' The Wind (aka Edge of Terror) is an odd film that begins as a promising Greek...

Both Niagara (1953) and Bus Stop (1956) provided parts for Marilyn Monroe to accommodate a studio imposed stereotype and yet subvert its imposition. A dumb blonde transitions into a femme...

Dir: John Ford | US, Western John Ford is renowned for his US cavalry pictures but not for his American Civil War films. On this issue he only made one feature...

Dir: Miklos Jancso | Wri: Gyula Hernadi | Hungarian, Drama 90' Szegénylegények or Outlaws was Miklós Jancsó's third film. Although he had received critical acclaim at home in Hungary, this starkly realised political ballet...

Dir.: Ferenc Kosa; Cast: Andras Kozar, Tibor Molnar, Janos Görbe, Bürös Gyöngi, Janos Kottai, Laszlo Nyers, Janos Rajz; Hungary 1967, 103 min. Notable for its arthouse depiction of the fate of...

Dir.: Sára Sándor; Cast: Lászlo Dózsa, Josezsef Madaras, György Csenhalmi, Jacint Juhász, Geza Tordy; Hungary 1978, 124 min. Prolific Hungarian director Sára Sándor (1933-2019) is best known for this patriotic historical...