Writer-director Ernest Thompson’s 1988 drama 1969 is a sincere and genial period piece, with appealing performances from the young Kiefer Sutherland and Robert Downey Jr as intelligent hippy Scott and his sensual best mate Ralph, […]
Bernardo Bertolucci’s 1976 film 1900 (or Novecento in Italian) is his extraordinary, often brilliant Italian historical epic about a family of Italian nobles and the struggle of the workers in the first half of the […]
The 1962 Italian film La Commare Secca [The Grim Reaper] is written and directed by Bernardo Bertolucci in his extraordinarily confident, stylish and successful directorial debut at the of age 21, with his screenplay based […]
The 1964 black and white romantic and political drama film Before the Revolution [Prima della Rivoluzione] is an early tour-de-force by the young writer-director Bernardo Bertolucci. It demonstrates his cinematic brilliance, mixing the political with […]
Director Harmon Jones’s 1952 Technicolor musical film Bloodhounds of Broadway is based on a Damon Runyon story, which provides a good chance for Mitzi Gaynor as little orphan Emily Annie Stackerlee, a country girl who […]
Co-writer/ producer/ director Howard Brookner’s 1989 Bloodhounds of Broadway stars Matt Dillon, Madonna, Jennifer Grey, Rutger Hauer, Randy Quaid, Julie Hagerty and Esai Morales. It is a star-studded romantic comedy set in 1920s New York […]
Director William Dieterle’s 1964 comedy drama was produced by Ginger Rogers, who also gives a lacklustre performance as a bordello madam, and her husband William Marshall in the Caribbean in 1964 but withdrawn after its […]