The 1991 American film Paradise is a tasteful, warm-hearted remake of the French success Le Grand Chemin (1987), this time starring then real-life married couple Melanie Griffith and Don Johnson. Writer/ director Mary Agnes Donoghue’s […]
Jean-Loup Hubert’s superb 1987 French film Le Grand Chemin [The Grand Highway] stars Richard Bohringer and Anémone, who won the César Awards for Best Actor and Best Actress. Writer/ director Jean-Loup Hubert’s superb 1987 French […]
The mild but gently amusing 1961 comedy Western film The Second Time Around stars Debbie Reynolds, Steve Forrest, Andy Griffith, Juliet Prowse, and Thelma Ritter. Debbie and Thelma are the hit turns as the new […]
The sleaze to tease. Director Adrian Lyne’s 1986 shocker Nine and a Half Weeks stars Mickey Rourke and Kim Basinger. Nine and a Half Weeks is a fascinating dissection of an alluringly intense sadomasochistic relationship, […]
Deep Water [Eaux Profondes] is a deliciously deranged 1981 French psychological thriller with Isabelle Huppert and Jean-Louis Trintignant on tremendous, quite scary form as a loveless married couple playing a sick marital game on the […]
Director Michel Deville’s disturbing, unsettling 1978 French surveillance crime drama film Le Dossier 51 is an intense and compelling experience, cleverly handled, and full of intrigue and suspense. François Marthouret plays meticulous and honourable French […]
RKO Pictures’ endearing 1945 wartime romantic comedy film Those Endearing Young Charms stars Robert Young, Laraine Day, Bill Williams, and Ann Harding. Director Lewis Allen’s 1945 RKO American comedy romance film Those Endearing Young Charms stars […]