French director André Téchiné’s 1986 drama Scene of the Crime [Le Lieu du Crime] [Le Crime] is a dour, sluggish and old-fashioned film about a beautiful cafe owner called Lili Ravenel (Catherine Deneuve) falling for […]
The tremendous, starry cast means the singing and acting are thoroughly rousing in director Francesco Rosi’s 1984 film of the Georges Bizet opera Carmen, but it is less thrilling and imaginative as cinema than the […]
Director Edward Ludwig’s 1952 thriller Big Jim McLain is McCarthyite rightist propaganda from John Wayne’s production company, with John Wayne and James Arness as US government agents – House Un-American Activities Committee investigators Jim McLain […]
The White Bus is a humorous, flavourful and poignant 1967 46-minute short film directed by Lindsay Anderson, now a time capsule. In it, Patricia Healey plays The Girl, who leaves depressive London on a train […]
Despite some decent action, director Don Chaffey’s 1968 film A Twist of Sand is a routine adventure with not too many twists and some rather dull acting from very decent British actors saddled with caricature […]
Director Stewart Raffill’s 1984 sci-fi film The Philadelphia Experiment is an excellent supernatural thriller, with Michael Paré and Bobby Di Cicco as US sailors on a Navy destroyer escort ship in World War Two who […]
‘Adapt or die.’ The 1973 Phase IV is a fascinating sci-fi thriller from Saul Bass – making his first and only feature film – the man who directed the best movie credit sequences in the […]