Writer-director Claude Chabrol’s tantalizing, mesmerizing 1970 French thriller Le Boucher [The Butcher] is absolutely superb, a miniaturist masterpiece of tension, atmosphere and character. Chabrol’s then wife Stéphane Audran stars as a repressed French provincial small-town […]
En garde, mesdames et messeurs, for co-writer/director Philippe de Broca’s exhilarating 1997 swashbuckling adventure, based on Paul Féval’s classic tale of passion and revenge in 18th-century France. Daniel Auteuil gives a most spirited turn as Henri […]
Super-talented players Peter Falk and Alan Arkin put the spark in producer-director Arthur Hiller’s huge fun 1979 offbeat buddy comedy, deliciously written by Andrew Bergman, full of quirky, zany and unexpected humour. Arkin plays dentist […]
Four burnt-out blokes meet up a villa in the countryside to eat themselves to death in the blow-out of the English title. But first they hire four prostitutes and engage in group sex. One of the […]
Ryan O’Neal was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor and the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama for the 1970 romantic drama film Love Story. The success of Easy […]
Claude Chabrol turns Ruth Rendell’s thriller novel A Judgement in Stone into one of his best movies, the 1995 crime drama film La Cérémonie. Isabelle Huppert won the 1996 César Award for Best Actress, one […]
La Reine Margot [Queen Margot] is a riveting French historical melodrama that has its centrepiece as the 24 August 1572 St Barthomew’s Day Massacre, which is chillingly and magnificently staged like the mass revenge slayings in The Godfather. […]
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