Writer/ producer/ director Marcel Pagnol’s beautiful original 1952 film version of one of his haunting excursions through village life in Provence makes for epic French cinema. The director’s wife Jacqueline Pagnol stars in an autobiographical […]
Director Henri-Georges Clouzot’s impressive and engrossing 1949 film version of Abbé Prévost’s classic novel Manon Lescault is updated to post-World War Two France, and a situation close to his heart, persecution for collaborating with the […]
This excellent, highly sympathetic, thriller-cum-character study comedy comes from co-writer/ director Henri-Georges Clouzot, the maker of Les Diaboliques, making a strong impression with his first solo film as director. Pierre Fresnay stars as Le Commissaire […]
Gabriel Byrne gives an earnest, capable star turn as Donald, a trusted, old-school driver, whose job is it to deal with his dead boss Demi (Harvey Keitel)’s affairs – in particular his Muslim mistress Amber […]
Dressed in black widow’s gown and veil, Helen Mirren relishes her weird role as the crazily eccentric firearms-manufacturer heiress Sarah Winchester, who believes that she and her mansion are haunted by the souls of people killed […]
‘BACK FROM THE DEAD!’ ‘HOW CAN A MAN AVENGE HIS OWN MURDER?’ Director Michael Curtiz’s lusty handled, eerily scary 1936 Warner Bros horror movie stars Boris Karloff as pianist ex-con John Ellman, a convicted killer […]
The scrappy 1994 third Beverly Hills Cop movie is by turns off-puttingly violent and stupidly slapstick, though it is helped along with capable, slick direction from John Landis and the thinly appealing, lightly professional performances. […]
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