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John Updike’s tremendous 1960 novel translates poorly to the screen in Jack Smight’s often intriguing, but ultimately unexciting 1970 movie Rabbit, Run. James Caan stars as ‘Rabbit’ Angstrom. American author John Updike’s tremendous 1960 novel […]
Director Frank Perry’s 1970 Diary of a Mad Housewife stars Richard Benjamin as the greedy, egotistical, abusive lawyer Jonathan Balser, who repels his put-upon housewife Tina (Carrie Snodgress), who has a fling with big-headed writer […]
Director Jacques Becker’s 1943 black and white film Goupi Mains Rouges [It Happened at the Inn] is an extremely effective, deservedly admired French black comedy about the murder of an old woman in a French […]
The stylish if impenetrable 1970 British mystery thriller film Fragment of Fear stars husband and wife David Hemmings and Gayle Hunnicutt. Director Richard C Sarafian’s 1970 British film Fragment of Fear is a stylish and […]
Director Irvin Kershner’s 1970 movie Loving stars George Segal, who turns in a first-class performance as Brooks Wilson, a married but philandering New York artist, in this sharp, witty and beautifully crafted comedy drama, motoring […]
Journey to Shiloh was made by Universal Pictures, looking for Sixties youth appeal, but they threw it away as a support feature in May 1968. Yet, with its iconic actors, it retains its appeal, and […]
Marco Pauletti stars as mountain man Barnabo in co-writer/ director Mario Brenta’s extraordinary, atmospheric, poetic Italian neo-realist mountain movie that does require some patience and understanding, but it will reward it. It is remarkable as […]