Dec 31, 2021
Wri/Dir: Matthew Vaughn | UK, Action Comedy, 130’
Ralph Fiennes and Rhys Ifans lead a magnificent cast in this entertaining if occasionally ridiculous romp, a historical re-write riffing on an eponymous...
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Dec 31, 2021
Dir: Gordon Douglas | US Drama 99’
This unusual title - aka Elephants Never Forget - is familiar to most cinephiles as Oliver Hardy's one starring vehicle of the sound era without Stan...
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Dec 30, 2021
Dir/Wri: Asghar Farhadi | Cast: Amir Jadidi, Mohsen Tanabandeh, Fereshteh Sadre Orafaiy, Sahar Goldust | Iran Drama 127'
Another moral satire from Asghar Farhadi that mulls over truth, honesty and family life...
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Dec 30, 2021
Dir: Jack Arnold | Cast: Jeff Chandler, Jack Carson, Jeanne Crain, Gail Russell | US Noir, 93'
The Tattered Dress is the second of four programmers released by Universal in 1957 directed...
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Dec 29, 2021
Dir: Orlando von Einsiedel | UK Doc | 95'
A quietly moving exploration of grief is set in the Highlands of Scotland and the glorious summer seascapes of Cumbria where a...
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Dec 29, 2021
Dir.: Francois Truffaut; Cast: Jean-Pierre Léaud, Claire Maurier, Albert Rémy, Guy Decomble, Patrick Auffay, Georges Flamant; France 1959, 100 min.
Francois Truffaut was banned from attending the Cannes Film Festival in 1959...
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Dec 28, 2021
Dir: Shue Matsubayashi | Japan Sci-fi, 110’
Made the year before the Cuban Missile Crisis; even in the dubbed and abbreviated version I've just watched on YouTube (the original was half...
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Dec 28, 2021
Dir: Joseph Lejtes | Cast: Tadeusz Bialoszczyn, Witold Zacharewicz, Jerzy Pichelski | Poland, Drama 92’
The victory of the Polish military leader Tadeusz Kościuszko (1746-1817) over Poland's Russian occupiers at the...
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Dec 27, 2021
Dir: Anthony Page | Cast: Richard Burton, Dominic Guard, David Bradley, Billy Connelly | UK Drama 95'
You never knew during his later years whether Richard Burton was going to just...
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