The magnificent 1960 Italian classic film Rocco and His Brothers [Rocco e i suoi fratelli] is a triumph for director Luchino Visconti, with electrifying performances from Alain Delon as Rocco and Renato Salvatori as his […]
Directors Chris Wedge and Carlos Saldanha, the makers of Ice Age (2002), come up with another dazzlingly inventive and witty CGI animation in 2005. Robin Williams voices the nutty robot Fender, who, with cute Cappy […]
Director Brian Gilbert’s 1997 biopic is another attempt to tell the Oscar Wilde story, but with the candour available to 90s film-makers, unlike the 60s makers of The Trials of Oscar Wilde (with Peter Finch) and […]
Nicholas Ray’s 1948 film noir They Live by Night stars Farley Granger as a young fugitive who falls in love with a woman (Cathy O’Donnell) but they become a couple on the run. This beautiful, supremely sensitive, highly […]
Director Raoul Walsh’s robust and realistic 1940 classic stars George Raft and Humphrey Bogart as embattled long-haul truck driving brothers Joe and Paul Fabrini, shipping fruit from farms to the markets in Los Angeles. It’s […]
Jules Dassin’s exciting, characterful 1950 thriller Night and the City is one of the seminal film noirs of the post-war era. It stars Richard Widmark, Gene Tierney and Googie Withers, and is shot on location […]
Director Jules Dassin’s 1949 American film noir thriller is still fresh and knife-edge exciting. Richard Conte stars as Nico ‘Nick’ Garcos, a sailor war-veteran who joins a trucking business as a truck driver. When he […]
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