Director Jacques Becker’s penultimate film, the 1958 artist biopic Montparnasse 19 [Les Amants de Montparnasse], gives a fascinating insight into the life of Italian tubercular, alcoholic, poor painter and sculptor Amedeo Modigliani (1884-1920), famed for […]
The 1952 Casque d’Or is a dazzling example of the postwar French film, perfectly capturing the nostalgic poetic-pessimistic mood of the time. It won one BAFTA Film Award for Best Foreign Actress (Simone Signoret). Director […]
Director Jacques Becker’s gritty 1960 French crime thriller / drama Le Trou [The Hole] tells a grim but gripping and intelligent escape story, based on a novel by José Giovanni but taken from real life, […]
Director J Lee Thompson’s 1965 John Goldfarb, Please Come Home! Is an off-target, iffy, campy and very silly Sixties satirical comedy from writer William Peter Blatty, the man who wrote The Exorcist. Richard Crenna plays […]
John Carpenter’s 2001 movie Ghosts of Mars is enjoyably silly, if trashy sci-fi horror action entertainment, directed with tongue firmly planted in cheek by Carpenter, who keeps it fast and exciting, and quite tough toned. […]
Director Peter Yates’s 1969 romantic drama John and Mary tells a slender but beguiling little anecdote with the help of charming turns from two then sweet, upcoming young players, Dustin Hoffman and Mia Farrow as […]
Director Hollingsworth Morse’s 1970 family comedy adventure Pufnstuf is an adaptation for the big screen of the children’s TV series H R Pufnstuf (17 episodes, 1969-1970), which will fill many a baby boomer with nostalgia […]
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