Director Uli [Ulrich] Edel’s 1981 German drama Christiane F [Christiane F – Wir Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo] is based on Christiane’s bestselling story as told to reporters at the Hamburg-based Stern weekly news magazine, and […]
It has been left to the Germans to make a film version of Hubert Selby Jr’s harrowing, controversial novel Last Exit to Brooklyn, banned following a private prosecution in July 1966, after its publication in […]
Director Nicolas Winding Refn’s 2003 surreal neo noir thriller Fear X stars John Turturro, Deborah Kara Unger and James Remar. Refn co-writes the screenplay with Hubert Selby Jr, who wrote the books of Last Exit […]
Co-writer/ director Claire Denis’s 1996 Nenette and Boni [Nénette et Boni] is a difficult, edgy, sometimes un-realised picture, with some good scenes and dialogue as well as a couple of persuasive, even attractive, star performances […]
There is a fine mix of the personal and the political in writer-director Bernardo Bertolucci’s distinguished, carefully studied inquiry into the use of terror by and against the state, and sharply relevant comment on the […]
Michael B Jordan and Jamie Foxx, form a strong partnership as Harvard-educated pro bono civil rights defence attorney Bryan Stevenson and Walter McMillian, a wrongly condemned Alabama death row prisoner he works tirelessly for years […]
The dramatic true tale Richard Jewell (2019) is a lovely film, showing Clint Eastwood at his best as producer-director. Ironically, though Richard Jewell saves thousands of lives from an exploding bomb at the 1996 Olympics, […]
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