Another spy spoof – really? In 2018? And another film using The Spy Who Loved Me as its spoof title, following The Spy Who Shagged Me of course. Real spy films are getting played out […]
Co-writer/ producer/ director Max Ophüls’s diverting 1936 French film La Tendre Ennemie (Tender Enemy) tells the charming tale about three dead men, ghosts who encounter each other again in the afterlife and end up dissecting their […]
F Scott Fitzgerald’s great 1934 semi-autobiographical novel Tender Is the Night about rich, troubled Americans in Europe in the jazz age Twenties is difficult to film, as the BBC found in its 1985 six-part serial […]
Ginger Rogers stars as an American defence plant worker who pools her wages and shares a house with three other wives while her husband (Robert Ryan) is away fighting in the Second World War, in […]
Rainer Werner Fassbinder produced, edited and appears (as Wittowski) in director Ulli Lommel’s gruesome and eerie but riveting and revealing 1973 German horror film Tenderness of the Wolves (Die Zärtlichkeit der Wölfe), a version of […]
Striptease queen Gypsy Rose Lee tried her hand at writing with the 1941 burlesque mystery novel The G-String Murders, filmed as the 1943 musical comedy-mystery movie Lady of Burlesque, starring Barbara Stanwyck as stripper Dixie […]
Writer-director Volker Schlöndorff’s powerful and relevant 1966 Young Törless [Der Junge Törless] is notable as this important German film-maker’s first feature. It is his forceful, assured, well-acted version of the classic Robert Musil parable novel […]
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