Norman Jewison’s hilarious, frenzied 1966 satirical American Cold War comedy film The Russians Are Coming! The Russians Are Coming! follows the panic and chaos after a Soviet submarine is grounded off a small New England […]
Antonio Banderas stars as Roman Catholic priest Father Matt Gutierrez, who is sent to investigate when Christ’s crucified remains are apparently discovered in a Jerusalem cave, in writer-director Jonas McCord’s moderately exciting and compelling 2001 […]
Writer/ cinematographer/ director Robert J Flaherty’s notable 1934 documentary feature film of life on the Isle of Aran in North Ayrshire features the real fishermen and crofter people, and shows their various struggles to live. (By […]
In the glorious heyday of Italian cinema, the three Italian big guns – Vittorio De Sica, Luchino Visconti and Federico Fellini – are assembled in 1962 to direct these interesting and enjoyable, typically quirky Sixties-style […]
Maria Schell, Marcello Mastroianni and Jean Marais star in Luchino Visconti’s 1957 Italian romantic drama film White Nights, based on Fyodor Dostoevsky’s short story. Co-writer/ director Luchino Visconti adapts the 1848 love triangle short story by Fyodor Dostoevsky […]
Luchino Visconti’s 1967 film adaptation of the 1942 Albert Camus classic novel L’Étranger [The Outsider] is flawed but compelling. Marcello Mastroianni plays a Frenchman living in Algiers, who for no apparent reason shoots dead a young […]
Director Luchino Visconti’s documentary-style 1948 neo-realist masterpiece is centred on the day-to-day working and living existence of a fisherman, ‘Ntoni Valastro (Antonio Arcidiacono), his family and the people from Aci Trezza, a small Sicilian village near Catania. It is […]
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