Mike Myers and Dana Carvey star as the legendary Wayne Campbell and Garth Algar in director Penelope Spheeris’s harmless, juvenile 1992 smart-Alec youth comedy based on a Saturday Night Live TV sketch. Sadly, they are […]
‘The future, Madame, is something we should have started on a long time ago.’ – Docteur Génessier. Director Georges Franju’s surreal cult classic horror thriller, adapted from the novel written by Jean Redon, is supremely stylish and […]
Producer-director Cecil B DeMille’s incredibly lavish and kitsch 1934 epic version of the Cleopatra story is infectiously extravagant in every way, as befits the ultimate showman he was. He was determined to make a popular […]
Norman Foster’s nailbiting 1942 film noir adventure thriller Journey into Fear bears more than a hint of the stamp of Orson Welles, who started the production, directed his own scenes, assembled a lot of his […]
Jacques Tati is working inventively and successfully at around the peak of his comic ingenuity and cleverness, in the 1958 French comedy film delight Mon Oncle [My Uncle]. In the first of his films to […]
One of the gay Marxist aristocrat Luchino Visconti’s greatest films, this highly emotional, elegantly staged and gorgeous-looking 1954 world cinema romantic masterpiece tells the story of the tragedy of an Italian woman who betrays her […]
Orson Welles approached Charles Chaplin with the idea of Chaplin starring in a film based on the celebrated French murderer, Bluebeard Henri Landru. Chaplin dropped out of Welles’s project but soon thought the story would […]
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