Director Jacques Becker’s gritty 1960 French crime thriller / drama Le Trou [The Hole] tells a grim but gripping and intelligent escape story, based on a novel by José Giovanni but taken from real life, […]
Director J Lee Thompson’s 1965 John Goldfarb, Please Come Home! Is an off-target, iffy, campy and very silly Sixties satirical comedy from writer William Peter Blatty, the man who wrote The Exorcist. Richard Crenna plays […]
Producer-director Gregory La Cava’s 1939 screwball romantic comedy Fifth Avenue Girl [5th Ave Girl] is a sweet Hollywood fairy tale starring Ginger Rogers as a penniless, on-the-dole, plain-Jane called Mary Grey, who is taken in […]
Director Peter Greenaway’s 1985 film A Zed & Two Noughts is more like a diagram than a narrative, overflowing with symbols and puns, and underpinned by the memorable Michael Nyman soundtrack. A surgeon covets the […]
Director Claude Chabrol’s 1967 thriller The Champagne Murders [Le Scandale] is an unexpected misfire from Chabrol during his best period, with Maurice Ronet starring as Paul Wagner, an oddball playboy who may be a murderer. […]
Director Nicolas Gessner’s 1976 The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane is a dark, taut, extremely well-done Grand Guignol suspense thriller, teetering on the edge of bad taste. Jodie Foster stars as the 13-year-old […]
Director Sidney Gilliat’s well-made, finely acted 1948 drama London Belongs To Me [Dulcimer Street] is based on the novel by Norman Collins, and stars Alastair Sim, Stephen Murray, Richard Attenborough and Fay Compton. In this […]