Ah yes, ‘The Twin Citadels of Sin!’ ‘The cities that mocked the very name of God… The vengeance that tore the Earth asunder!’ Director Robert Aldrich’s costly 1962 Italian, French, US co-production Sodom and Gomorrah [Sodoma […]
The 1971 Western drama film J W Coop is a triumph for co-writer-producer-director Cliff Robertson, who also stars as the rodeo cowboy J W Coop who rides back to confront his kinfolks after a decade behind bars, […]
Director Steve Ihnat’s 1972 film The Honkers is an action comedy drama with a western setting, and stars James Coburn, who is compellingly amiable in a profile of a middle-ageing, philandering rodeo rider, Lew Lathrop. […]
John Schlesinger’s imaginative, classic 1961 documentary short Terminus, now poignantly dated, about a day in the life of London’s Waterloo station, was made for British Transport Films. It won the 1962 BAFTA Film Award for […]
Director Fred Zinnemann’s earnest 1951 MGM black and white drama Teresa stars John Ericson as GI Philip Cass, who serves in Italy during World War Two, marries an Italian girl and brings his new Italian wife […]
Writer-director Bertrand Blier’s 1986 crime comedy drama Tenue de Soirée [Evening Dress] [Ménage] stars Gérard Depardieu as a rough-trade bisexual robber who talks a couple (Michel Blanc, Miou-Miou) into a threesome and a crime. This […]
The compelling 1962 British realist drama film Term of Trial is about a student (Sarah Miles) who develops a crush on her schoolteacher (Laurence Olivier), leading him into serious trouble. ‘I always knew she was […]