‘I feel I’m going through life like an American tourist, doing as many towns as possible.’ – Jean. Writer-director Cyril Collard stars as the bisexual HIV-positive film-maker Jean in his own promising movie Savage Nights [Les […]
Manuel Blanc stars as Pierre Lacaze, a sensitive French provincial young lad who leaves his stifling family to start a new life in Paris, hoping to become an actor. But instead he finds homelessness, poverty […]
French film-maker and author Paul Vecchiali died in Paris on 18 January 2023, aged 92. He notably directed La Machine (1977), a passionate attack on capital punishment, starring Jean-Christophe Bouvet. Jean-Christophe Bouvet has his first […]
Director Maurice Pialat’s 1987 study of Catholicism is an unsettling, often brilliant film, which won the 1987 Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival unanimously. But his triumph turned sour when the film was booed. Then, when […]
Director Ray Enright’s disappointingly flat-footed 1939 Warner Bros film version of the great 1936 Broadway hit musical by George Abbott, Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart unfortunately lacks the spark and most of the music of […]
Dorothy Dwan is Dorothy in director Larry Semon’s quite sweet 1925 silent movie, the first film version of L Frank Baum’s beloved 1900 novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, most famous now of course as […]
Director Sidney Lumet’s 1978 movie version of the hit Broadway show, an all-African American musical of The Wizard of Oz, is generally much maligned and unloved. It was advertised as ‘The Motown remake of The […]
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