Director Frank Perry turns his hand to the useful 1971 spaghetti Western ‘Doc’, about sharp-shooting poker gambler Doc Holliday (Stacy Keach), his friend Marshal Wyatt Earp (Harris Yulin), and Kate Elder (Faye Dunaway). The late, […]
Patrice Leconte’s dazzlingly stylish French crime thriller film 1989 Monsieur Hire stars Michel Blanc as the lonely bachelor who falls for disrobed object of desire Alice (Sandrine Bonnaire), a young woman he has been peeping […]
Star Paul Newman and director John Huston are in easy-going mood in the likeable 1972 movie The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean, an amusing if unfocused Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid-type Western […]
Co-writer/ director Etienne Chatiliez’s 1988 first film Life Is a Long Quiet River [La Vie Est Un Long Fleuve Tranquille] is a jovial French farce in which two French families from different social classes, one […]
Director Etienne Chatiliez’s 1990 French gem Tatie Danielle [Auntie Danielle] stars Tsilla Chelton, who is magnificently awful as the rich old, recently widowed grandma, whose only pleasure in life is tormenting her relatives and anyone […]
Director Krzysztof Kieslowski saves the best for last in the highly impressive final part of his trilogy, the exquisitely subtle 1994 masterpiece Three Colors: Red [Trois Couleurs: Rouge]. It was nominated for three Oscars, including […]
Three Colors: White [Trois Couleurs: Blanc] (1994), the second part of Krzysztof Kieslowski’s trilogy (after the 1993 Three Colours: Blue) is billed as ‘A Comedy’, but there is no impression anywhere in the movie of […]
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