Producer-director Leigh Jason’s 1941 American film Model Wife stars Joan Blondell and Dick Powell in a likeable, hard-working comedy about a young couple, Joan and Fred Chambers (Blondell and Powell), who have to keep their […]
Director Philippe de Broca’s 1962 French swashbuckler film Cartouche [Swords of Blood] stars Jean-Paul Belmondo and Claudia Cardinale. France’s legendary 18th-century thief-hero Cartouche is a lovely role for grinning young and dashing Belmondo, whose infectious, […]
Director Philippe de Broca’s 1964 French James Bond-type spoof film That Man from Rio [L’Homme de Rio] stars Jean-Paul Belmondo, Françoise Dorléac, Jean Servais and Adolfo Celi. That Man from Rio is a lively, fast-moving […]
Director Alan Rudolph’s 1988 film The Moderns is an offbeat, civilised, romantic movie about Americans in 1920s Paris, with a miscast Keith Carradine out of his depth as art faker Nick Hart, an ex-patriate American […]
Director Alan Rudolph’s 1983 film Return Engagement is a documentary on the 1983 touring debate between the two Seventies/ Eighties contemporary eccentrics, or geniuses depending upon your viewpoint – Timothy Leary, the advocate of psychedelic […]
The 1980 American musical comedy film Roadie is an offbeat look at the rock industry from director Alan Rudolph starring heavyweight rocker Meat Loaf as beer-drinking Travis W Redfish, a truck driver who becomes a roadie for a […]
Director Alan Rudolph’s likeable 1984 satirical comedy-drama Songwriter stars Willie Nelson and Kris Kristofferson, along with Melinda Dillon, Rip Torn and Lesley Ann Warren. Country music fans will love this tale of two singers on […]