As World War Two rages, writer-director Preston Sturges calls Hollywood to task for its frivolity in his brilliant 1941 serio-comic road movie. Sturges’s movie is a classic satire, still funny, relevant and worthwhile. Joel McCrea […]
The neat and nimble 1950 black comedy film Last Holiday stars the expert and excellent Alec Guinness, as a man told he has only a short time to live, in a subtly sentimental original story […]
Writer/director Aki Kaurismåki’s offbeat 1990 black-comedy thriller stars Jean-Pierre Léaud as Henri Boulanger, a terminally depressed Frenchman in London. It is a splendidly quirky and truly funny movie, a little gem. Henri is so depressed after being […]
Co-writer/director François Truffaut puts his alter ego film-self Antoine Doinel in the spotlight again in 1979 for the fifth and final time, as Jean-Pierre Léaud re-creates his most famous role in this amiable sequel movie. […]
Bed and Board [Domicile Conjugale] is often highly amusing, perceptive and very touching, though overall perhaps slightly less so than its 1968 predecessor Stolen Kisses (Baisers Volés). Jean-Pierre Léaud again stars as the twentysomething French hero, […]
François Truffaut’s 1968 salute to Alfred Hitchcock, the French thriller film The Bride Wore Black, is a richly enjoyable, quirky entertainment. Jeanne Moreau is on great form as a widow who sets out to kill […]
Co-writer/director François Truffaut’s 1968 Baisers Volés (Stolen Kisses) is the very welcome third episode in Truffaut’s Antoine Doinel series. The 25-year-old Jean-Pierre Léaud back again as Truffaut’s alter ego in the further adventures of the […]
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