War-torn Italian slums in Genoa provide a stable background for director René Clément’s moving depiction of a tragic encounter between Pierre Arrignon (Jean Gabin), a French fugitive killer pursued by the law, and a frustrated […]
Yasujirô Ozu’s elegant and elegiac final film An Autumn Afternoon (1962) serves as a fine epitaph for one of the world’s great directors. In the autumn of his life, Yasujirô Ozu directed the elegant and […]
Good Morning [Ohayô] (1959) is a gently mocking Japanese comedy of social manners from director Yasujirô Ozu that centres on the refusal of Keitarô Hayashi (Chishû Ryû) to buy a television set for his two […]
Early Summer [Bakushû] (1951) is a typical drama film from esteemed Japanese master director Yasujirô Ozu about the emotional turmoil of a family torn between old and new traditions. Written by Ozu and Kôgo Noda, […]
The 1953 Japanese drama Tokyo Story [Tôkyô monogatari] is the glowing masterpiece that finally established the reputation of its director Yasujirô Ozu outside Japan. Quietly devastating, it is a moving and detailed study of the […]
The 1938 British film Vessel of Wrath [The Beachcomber] is made for the Mayflower Pictures Corporation, a film company formed by star Charles Laughton and producer-director Eric Pommer. Happily, Laughton’s first venture into film production […]
William Inge’s renowned Pulitzer prize-winning play The Dark at the Top of the Stairs transfers to the screen in Delbert Mann’s good looking but vaguely unsatisfactory, rather stagey 1960 film production, lovingly adapted by screen-writing […]
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