William Faulkner’s Deep South tour-de-force novel comes to the screen in the diligent but shaky 1959 film The Sound and the Fury from director Martin Ritt. At its centre is a committed but struggling performance […]
‘Men Against The Sea! Stark Drama No Fiction Can Equal!’ Producer-director Henry Hathaway’s 1937 Souls at Sea is a popular Gary Cooper high seas action adventure about the American navy battling slave traders in the […]
Writer-director René Clair’s first sound film, the 1930 Sous les Toits de Paris [Under the Roofs of Paris], is a nostalgic tale set in Paris about two men, the street singer Albert (Albert Préjean) and […]
Icíar Bollaín stars as the 15-year-old Spanish youngster Estrella, who heads south in search of answers to her father’s tragic death, in director Victor Erice’s beautifully handled 1983 tale of childhood innocence, The South [El […]
Director Victor Erice’s sweet and sensitive 1973 Spanish film The Spirit of the Beehive [El espíritu de la colmena] was an international success, with its compelling original screenplay kindling art house movie-goers’ fascination for its fantasy […]
Director Chen Kaige’s dazzling, rivetingly compelling, exquisitely made 1998 Chinese period drama The Emperor and the Assassin [Jing Ke ci Qin Wang] is set in the 3rd century BC and chronicles the efforts of an […]
Director Martin Scorsese is on fire for his 2019 mob crime thriller The Irishman – and so is his screen-writer Steven Zaillian, carving out a really brilliant, scintillating screenplay from Charles Brandt’s book. Even so, […]
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