‘You can get anything you want at Alice’s Restaurant.’ Co-writer/ director Arthur Penn’s engaging, quirky, sometimes brilliant 1969 anti-establishment film perfectly captures the late-Sixties stop-the-Vietnam War spirit of the Arlo Guthrie song (‘The Alice’s Restaurant […]
Writer-director William Sterling’s lovingly crafted 1972 movie is another attempt at an all-star human cast version of Lewis Carroll’s classic novel, and this time it is a semi-musical version, with a score by John Barry […]
Jean-Jacques Beineix’s erotically charged, visually stylish 1986 French cinema landmark Betty Blue [37°2 le matin] offers Béatrice Dalle her best ever screen opportunity as volatile waitress Betty attracted to Zorg (Jean-Hugues Anglade). Writer/ director Jean-Jacques […]
Director John Krish’s 1968 comedy is a dodgy, unstylish film of Evelyn Waugh’s masterwork satirical (partly autobiographical) novel, now unfortunately updated to the Swinging Sixties, hence is alternate title of Decline and Fall… of a […]
Director Russ Mayberry’s 1979 British-shot children’s film is a mild, harmless, quite amusing Walt Disney sci-fi comedy adventure reworking of Mark Twain’s novel A Connecticut Yankee at King Arthur’s Court. Dennis Dugan stars as NASA […]
Writer-director John Cassavetes’s 1976 epic neo noir crime movie is another of his exciting part-improvised thrillers, propelled with a classic plot about gangster Mort Weil (Seymour Cassel)’s mobsters forcing a nightclub owner Cosmo Vittelli (Ben […]
The gritty 1961 realist British noir crime thriller film A Prize of Arms stars Stanley Baker as a dismissed army captain who plots revenge on the army by planning a daring heist of their payroll […]
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