Writer-director Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s 1973 drama is one of his greatest films, a straightforward account of an unlikely love affair between a 60-year-old Munich charlady (the splendid Brigitte Mira) and a 30-year-old Moroccan immigrant worker […]
Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s chilly and attractively unusual 1969 low budget German black-and-white film is his first feature, valuable as an interesting apprentice work of this important director. It tells a dour and doomy noir-style gangster story, as seen through […]
Writer-director Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s 1971 German film is his earliest success and arguably first masterwork. Hard work but rewarding, it is a credibly written and performed assault on middle-class values, with the director’s typical mix […]
Director-choreographer Charles Walters’s captivating, Oscar-winning 1953 MGM musical stars Leslie Caron as the naive French orphan and teenager Lili. She joins a travelling carnival as a waitress and meets a sad puppeteer called Paul (Mel Ferrer) […]
Writer-producer-director Robert Rossen’s polished 1964 drama stars Warren Beatty, Jean Seberg and Peter Fonda, and is based on J R Salamanca’s novel of love, madness, creativity, jealousy, unrequited love and incestuous desire. Everybody seems to be battling – if […]
Angela Molina gives a powerful performance as the titular Lola, a factory worker who suffers at the hands of her sadistic lover Mario (Féodor Atkine), in co-writer/ director Bigas Luna’s dour, dubbed Spanish suspense thriller. […]
Director Max Ophüls creates one of his most poignant works in this 1955 film fantasia on the life of the celebrated Irish dancer, courtesan and femme fatale Lola Montès (1821–1861). As Lola, Martine Carol provides […]
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