Cluny Brown (1946) is the last film that Ernst Lubitsch completed before his death on 30 November 1947 at the age of 55. His final film, the American Technicolor musical film That Lady in Ermine […]
Director Arthur Lubin’s 1937 black and white film Adventure’s End stars John Wayne as Pacific pearl diver Duke Slade, in this very modest, quite weakly written and slackly handled romantic adventure, in which he runs […]
Director Mel Stuart’s 1969 DeLuxe Color romantic comedy If It’s Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium is an affectionate, hard-to-dislike send-up of American tourists on a whirlwind trip round Europe. English amorous tour guide Charlie Cartwright […]
Writer-director Paul Schrader’s 2021 American crime drama film The Card Counter stars Oscar Isaac, Tiffany Haddish, Tye Sheridan, and Willem Dafoe. Martin Scorsese is notable as one of the many executive producers. It has two enormously high cards in its hand: Oscar Isaac’s […]
The 1945 British drama film Perfect Strangers is a well-made, poignant little gem, with Robert Donat and Deborah Kerr as a married couple whose relationship is shaken by their service in World War Two. The […]
Director Claude Miller’s French 1992 drama L’Accompagnatrice [The Accompanist] is an intriguing, ambitious and often involving though somehow elusive World War Two wartime drama about the poor young piano accompanist of the title, Sophie Vasseur […]
Charlotte Gainsbourg stars as a troubled tomboyish teenager who craves attention and drifts into petty crime. Director Claude Miller’s French 1988 film La Petite Voleuse [The Little Thief] stars Charlotte Gainsbourg, Raoul Billerey, Chantal Banlier, […]
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