Reviews

The Pearl of Death (1944)
Mar 15, 2025
Dir: Roy William Neill | Cast: Basil Rathbone, Miles Mandar, Evelyn Ankers | Drama, 1944, 69’ Possibly the most fondly recalled of Universal's Sherlock Holmes adaptations. Directed with his usual casual excellence...
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Black Bag (2025)
Mar 15, 2025
Dir: Stephen Soderbergh | Wri: Cast: Cate Blanchett, Michael Fassbender, Marisa Abela, Tom Burke, Naomie Harris, Regé-Jean Page, Pierce Brosnan, Gustaf Skarsgard | 93' 2025 An elite team of British intelligence...
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Misericordia (2024)
Mar 15, 2025
Dir/Wri: Alain Guiraudie | Cast: Félix Kysyl, Jean-Baptiste Durand, Catherine Frot, Jacques Develay, David Ayala | France, Thriller 102' All over France the village bakery is becoming a thing of the...
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Ghosts | Gespenster (2005) Bergamo Film Meeting 2025
Mar 14, 2025
Dir:: Christian Petzold | Germany, Drama 2005 Ghosts is one of Petzold’s most rewarding Berlin-based dramas whose tightly plotted slow-burn storyline requires careful attention to fully appreciate its traumatic implications. Personal...
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Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956) Bergamo Film Meeting 2025
Mar 13, 2025
Dir: Don Siegel  | Wri: Daniel Mainwaring | Cast: Kevin McCarthy, Dana Wynter | 90min  Sci-Fi/Thriller  US Don Siegel's sci-fi noir, based on Jack Finney’s novel, is one of the best...
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Chasing Butterflies (1992) Bergamo Film Meeting 2025
Mar 12, 2025
Dir: Otar Iosseliani | Cast: Narda Blanchet, Pierette Pompom-Bailhache | Comedy Drama 115’ 1992 One of the films playing in this year's Otar Iosseliani retrospective at Bergamo is this delightful satire...
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Mr Burton (2025)
Mar 11, 2025
Dir: Marc Evans | Cast: Harry Lawtey, Toby Jones, Lesley Manville, Aimee-Ffion Edwards, Aneurin Barnard, Steffan Rhodri | UK. 2025. 124' Most people have never heard of Philip Henry Burton (1904-95)....
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Brainwashed (1960)
Mar 10, 2025
Dir: Gerd Oswald | Cast: Curd Jurgens, Claire Bloom, Mario Adorf, Hansjorg Felmy | Germany Thriller Gerd Oswald returned to the land of his birth to make this memorable version of...
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Afire (2023) BERGAMO Film Meeting 2025
Mar 10, 2025
Dir.: Christian Petzold; Cast: Thomas Schubert, Paula Beer, Langston Uibel, Enno Trebs, Paula Beer. Matthias Brandt; Germany 2023, 103 min. German writer/director Christian Petzold (*1960) won the Grand Jury Prize at...
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