Sophia Loren was blacklisted in Arab countries after playing a Jewish woman in Judith (1966). Director Daniel Mann’s 1966 drama Judith [Conflict] stars Sophia Loren, Peter Finch and Jack Hawkins but does not have much […]
Writer-director Walerian Borowczyk’s entrancing 1971 French medieval romance Blanche tells the tragic story of a lovely, pure young wife (Ligia Branice) of an old baron (Michel Simon), and the handsome stepson Nicolas (Lawrence Trimble), visiting king […]
Director Marc Allégret’s 1948 British film Blanche Fury is a handsome-looking, rather Gothic Victorian-style romantic melodrama about a governess Blanche Fury (Valerie Hobson) who, at the bidding of her rich uncle Simon (Walter Fitzgerald), marries […]
Director Marcel Camus’s 1959 film Black Orpheus [Orfeu Negro] is a modernised version of the classical Greek story of Orpheus and Eurydice set in modern Rio de Janeiro during the carnival, and filmed in Rio […]
Director Godfrey Reggio’s 1988 documentary Powaqqatsi is the very welcome sequel to Koyaanisqatsi (1982), with another extraordinary Philip Glass score. It is a collage of scenes of cultures around the globe, showing how the Third […]
Director Jerry Hopper’s 1953 Western film Pony Express stars Charlton Heston and Forrest Tucker as Buffalo Bill Cody and Wild Bill Hickok, who try to found the Pony Express amid the hostility of stagecoach station […]
The 1969 film Popi is a touching, lovingly made, offbeat comedy about Abraham, a Puerto Rican father (Alan Arkin), a single parent with two boys. He is worried about his life with his sexy girlfriend […]
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