Feb 8, 2024
Dir: Clive Donner | Writer: Frederic Raphael | Cast: Alan Bates, Denholm Elliott, Harry Andrew’s, Millicent Martin | UK Drama 99’
A full six decades ago it was already becoming evident...
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Feb 7, 2024
Dir Roman Polanski | Writer: Roman Polanski, Olivier Assayas | Cast: Emmanuelle Seigner, Eva Green
Unusually, there’s a happy ending to this traditionally styled film from Roman Polanski.
Emmanuelle Seigner and Eva...
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Feb 6, 2024
Dir: Dorothy Arzner, Otto Brower, Edmund Goulding || Cast: Jean Arthur, Clara Bow, Gary Cooper, Fredric March, Maurice Chevalier | US Musical 102’
Paramount on Parade displays little of the imagination of...
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Feb 5, 2024
Dir/scr: Toshihiko Tanaka. Japan, drama 189'
Rei is a kanji character that can represent a variety of meanings. The genderless name is therefore a really good title for this complex but...
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Feb 3, 2024
Dir: Dorothy Arzner | US Drama 63’
Interesting to compare this rather demure affair with the one pictured nearly a hundred years later in HOW TO HAVE SEX (2023).
Far from being...
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Feb 2, 2024
Dir/Wri: Molly Manning Walker | Cast: Mia McKenna-Bruce, Lara Peake, Enva Lewis, Samuel Bottomley, Shaun Thomas, Finlay Vane Last, Guy Lewis | UK Drama 91'
What sounds like a cinematic instruction...
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Feb 1, 2024
Dir: Andrew Haigh | Cast: Andrew Scott, Paul Mescal, Claire Foy, Jamie Bell | UK Drama 105'
Andrew Haigh’s new film All of Us Strangers may well be this British director’s...
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Jan 31, 2024
Dir: Adilkhan Yerzhanov | | Kazakhstan/Russia,102'
A hyper violent civil war rages across an apocalyptic landscape where gender conventions prevail in classic Western style: the men are the killers. One traumatised...
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Jan 31, 2024
Dir: Brigitte Sy | Cast: Damien Bonnard, Laetitia Casta, Beatrice Dalle | France, Drama 97'
Another example of how good actors don’t make a decent film is this limp effort to...
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