Writer-director Pedro Almodóvar’s biting 1993 black comedy is a typically savage, no-holds-barred assault on modern media culture. More focused and controlled than his early work in the Eighties, this is lit up by Victoria Abril’s powerhouse turn as […]
This tasty 1983 black comedy from fashionable cult writer-director Pedro Almodóvar is his third film – after Pepi, Luci, Bom (1980) and Labyrinth of Passion (1982). It has an almost all-female cast featuring many of his favourite leading ladies and is […]
The Flower of My Secret [La Flor de mi Secreto] from 1995 is one of Pedro Almódovar’s best, smartest, and most mature movies. It boasts a serious, intelligent screenplay by him that explores his characters and situations […]
Co-writer/director Andrei Tarkovsky’s masterly 1975 kaleidoscope of personal imagery has a strong, poetic and characteristic use of the elements and images – the wind constantly moving the tall grasses, the burning barn, the flooded room, […]
Co-writer/director Andrei Tarkovsky’s scintillating and stunning 1962 first feature Ivan’s Childhood [Ivanovo Detstvo] is about the feisty and vengeful 12-year-old Russian boy Ivan Bondarev, played by Kolya Burlyayev [Nikolai Burlyayev], who works as a spy […]
Little Neel Sethi is ideal as the man-cub Mowgli who flees the jungle after a death threat from the tiger Shere Khan. Guided by Ben Kingsley and Bill Murray provide the excellent key voices of Bagheera the panther and the bear […]
Based on the true tale of the real career of Ivar Kreuger and a novelised version of his life by Einar Thorvaldson, directors Howard Bretherton and William Keighley’s little-known, antique 1932 drama is old-style film-making, […]
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