Writer-director Alain Jessua’s 1964 black and white drama Life Upside Down [La Vie à l’Envers] stars Charles Denner, who is surprisingly sympathetic in a difficult role as a Paris office worker, real estate agent Jacques […]
Director Bruce Beresford’s attractive, episodic 1977 Australian coming-of-age film The Getting of Wisdom about turn-of-the-last-century girls’ school life is taken from an autobiographical novel by Henry Handel (Ethel) Richardson, with an effective screenplay by Eleanor […]
Director István Szabó’s 1988 historical drama Hanussen stars Klaus Maria Brandauer, who shines again as the Austrian soldier Klaus Schneider, who gains second sight after a bullet hits his head in World War One, in […]
Director István Szabó’s 1981 Mephisto stars Klaus Maria Brandauer, who gives a tour-de-force performance in this 1981 Best Foreign Language Film Oscar-winner about a leftist 1920s German theatre actor, Hendrik Hoefgren (famous for his playing […]
Giuliano Gemma (billed as Montgomery Wood) stars in director Giorgio Ferroni’s superior 1966 Italian Spaghetti Western film For a Few Extra Dollars [Per pochi dollari ancora] as former Confederate raider Gary Diamond, now a guide who […]
Director Michele Lupo’s 1966 Spaghetti Western film Arizona Colt [Man from Nowhere] stars Giuliano Gemma, Fernando Sancho, and Corinne Marchand. The veteran Spanish character actor Sancho plays bandit Gordo, who frees a group of prisoners […]
Co-writer/ director Giorgio Ferroni’s 1965 Italian-French Spaghetti Western film, Blood for a Silver Dollar [Un dollaro bucato], also known as Le dollar troué, One Silver Dollar, and Un dólar agujereado, stars Giuliano Gemma and Evelyn […]
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