The Aviator’s Wife [La Femme de l’Aviateur] (1981) is an excellent conversation piece from Eric Rohmer (the opening one of his Comédies et Proverbes series) about a young Frenchman François (Philippe Marlaud) and the eponymous […]
Writer-director Eric Rohmer’s highly stylish and diverting Comedy and Proverb character study, ideas picture and talk scenario centres on a French 1920s art student (Béatrice Romand), Sabine, who looks for an ideal love, or, in […]
Director Yves Allégret’s 1950 French film Manèges [The Wanton] [The Cheat] is an engaging noir-style melodrama thanks to the film’s clever structure, controlled handling by Allégret, and the charismatic star performances of Simone Signoret and […]
Hammer Films cash in on the success of Disney’s 1952 The Story of Robin Hood and His Merrie Men (1952) – and why not ? – with Val Guest’s pleasant if very routine 1954 Eastmancolor […]
Melvin Van Peebles writes, scores, edits, directs, produces and stars in the 1971 action crime drama Sweet Sweetback’s Baad Asssss Song. Melvin Van Peebles is the whole show as Sweetback, a cool guy on the […]
Director Lewis R Foster’s 1929 two-reeler short comedy Men O’War stars Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy as sailors on shore leave, who meet two giggling girls (Anne Cornwall, Gloria Greer) in the park. Written and […]
Director Robert Z Leonard’s pretty 1937 MGM musical Maytime tells the cute and eventful story of true love versus opera’s bright lights, with some splendid singing from Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy, and a score […]
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