Director Julien Duvivier’s 1934 classic romance Maria Chapdelaine [The Naked Heart] is based on the classic French-Canadian novel by Louis Hémon, and stars Madeleine Renaud and Jean Gabin. It is a compelling love story set […]
The amusing 1940 American black and white comedy drama film The Lady in Question, starring Brian Aherne, Rita Hayworth and Glenn Ford, is a remake of the 1937 French film classic Gribouille. Director Charles Vidor’s […]
Director Mark Joffe’s 1988 Grievous Bodily Harm is an intriguing, tough-edged Aussie mystery crime thriller with a satisfactorily labyrinthine plot about a teacher (John Waters) who uncovers a connection between his missing wife (Joy Bell) […]
Marc Allégret’s 1937 film Gribouille [Heart of Paris] is a minor classic from the French golden age, with Raimu starring as Camille Morestan, the juror who takes pity on a woe-begone innocent acquitted of murder. […]
Writer-director Skip Woods’s 1998 action comedy crime film Thursday is a nasty, dark but exciting Tarantino-style crime thriller. Thomas Jane stars as Casey Wells, a reformed LA drug dealer, who has started a new life as […]
Writer-director Robert Bresson’s spare, stark and enigmatic 1959 French film Pickpocket is rightly considered to be one of the great film-maker’s greatest films. The young Uruguayan non-professional actor Martin LaSalle stars as the Pickpocket, with […]
Director Robert Bresson’s austere and contemplative 1969 French tragic film Une femme douce [A Gentle Woman] is adapted from Fyodor Dostoevsky’s 1876 short story A Gentle Creature. The film is Bresson’s first in colour, and set […]
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