Director Carlos Saura’s 1988 Spanish historical film El Dorado is a costly, stately and handsome Spanish epic about the Conquistadores’s misfortunes as they go up the Amazon in 1560 to discover El Dorado. Pedro de […]
Director William G Stewart’s 1973 British comedy Father Dear Father is a pleasant record – if a pointless expansion – of the popular, simple Seventies British TV comedy show into a feature-length format that unfortunately […]
Michael Caine returns for the fifth and final time as one-time British secret agent Harry Palmer, in the 1996 made-for-TV thriller Midnight in St Petersburg, the sequel to Bullet to Beijing, released the year before, […]
Michael Caine returns as Len Deighton’s fictional spy Harry Palmer in the enjoyable 1995 made-for-TV action thriller Bullet to Beijing, following his Sixties hits The Ipcress File, Funeral in Berlin and Billion Dollar Brain. Refreshing […]
Director Carlos Saura’s 1990 Spanish film ¡Ay, Carmela! stars Carmen Maura, who gives a vibrant performance as fiery, patriotic Republican Carmela, who, with her troubadour husband Paulino (Andrés Pajares) and a mute, entertain the Republican […]
A thrilling experience, the 1981 Spanish film Blood Wedding [Bodas de Sangre] is one of the great dance movies. Director Carlos Saura watches with his cameras as Antonio Gades rehearses his flamenco version of the […]
The tremendous, starry cast means the singing and acting are thoroughly rousing in director Francesco Rosi’s 1984 film of the Georges Bizet opera Carmen, but it is less thrilling and imaginative as cinema than the […]
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