Director Victor Erice’s 1992 Spanish drama The Quince Tree Sun [El Sol Del Membrillo] is a hypnotic rumination on art and life, taken at an audaciously sedate pace and at considerable length by Erice, who […]
Director Franco Zeffirelli’s sumptuous, thrilling 1982 Italian film version of Giuseppe Verdi’s opera La Traviata, based on Alexandre Dumas Fils’s The Lady of the Camelias [La dame aux camélias], is a glossy paean to the […]
Director Francesco Maselli’s below-par 1968 Swinging Sixties Italian comedy thriller A Fine Pair [Ruba al prossimo tuo] stars Rock Hudson and Claudia Cardinale, reunited from Blindfold (1966), who make a fine pair as a married […]
Co-writer/ director Philip Dunne’s enjoyable 1965 Swinging Sixties comedy crime mystery thriller Blindfold stars Rock Hudson as a New York psychiatrist, Dr Bartholomew Snow, who is hired by American general Prat (Jack Warden) and his […]
Thanks mainly to Trevor Howard’s commanding performance, producer-director Carol Reed has some success in his 1951 adventure Outcast of the Islands filming Joseph Conrad’s novel about a corrupt clerk who fails in his Singapore job […]
Director David Miller’s good-hearted, sentimental drama 1950 Our Very Own is lovingly crafted but largely wastes the talents of Ann Blyth, Farley Granger and a 12-year-old Natalie Wood. Blyth goes through the motions as Gail […]
Emanuel Goldenberg was born in Bucharest, Romania, arrived in the United States at the age of 10, and moved with his family into New York’s Lower East Side, took up acting and changed his name […]