Co-writer/ director Claude Goretta’s penetrating 1977 film character study stars Isabelle Huppert as a reserved apprentice teenage Paris hairdresser called Pomme who goes with her friend Marylène (Florence Giorgetti) to Cabourg in Normandy for a […]
It is 1971, and America is afflicted by the twin monsters of the Vietnam War and Nixon, and a team of explorers and soldiers want to get away from it all – and travel to […]
Director Jose Quintero’s 1961 romantic drama is a highly intriguing film version of Tennessee Williams’s only novel, with Vivien Leigh enjoying herself as Mrs Stone, an ageing American actress staying in a magnificent apartment in Rome, […]
Miracles, magic and mayhem are on the menu for Danny Huston’s 1988 film version of Thornton Wilder’s novel Theophilus North, which he crafts into a charming, amiable and likeable entertainment. Anthony Edwards stars as Mr […]
This blissful classic 1922 twenty minutes of comedy is a highly amusing, fast-moving, inventive silent short from writer/ co-producer/ co-director/ star Buster Keaton. It is one of his best – in which he plays a […]
Dina Meyer stars as zoologist Dr Sheila Casper, who is summoned to the Texas town of Gallup, where she teams up with the surprisingly kindly sheriff Emmett Kinsey (Lou Diamond Phillips) after a plague of […]
After so many films together, Ginger Rogers wanted a rest from acting, singing and dancing with Fred Astaire, so the RKO studio matched him together with a decorative and appealing Joan Fontaine. Alas that turns […]
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