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Director Giuliano Montaldo’s splendidly acted, provocative, sterling 1971 biopic of 1920s Italian-born US immigrant anarchists Nicola Sacco (Riccardo Cucciolla) and Bartolomeo Vanzetti (Gian Maria Volonté), who are tired on trumped-up charges of robbery and murder […]
Director Silvio Narizzano films Joe Orton’s wickedly funny, now classic 1965 stage black comedy Loot in 1970 – the same year as the movie of Entertaining Mr Sloane. To succeed, Orton’s outrageous, wonderfully bad-taste comedy […]
The 1968 sci-fi film Barbarella stars Jane Fonda as the title space traveller sent to find Durand Durand (Milo O’Shea), who has created a weapon that could destroy humanity. ‘I want to make something beautiful […]
Director Douglas Hickox’s engagingly outrageous 1973 British horror farce movie Theatre of Blood provides an ideal showcase for Vincent Price, whose talent for succulent over-acting is lavishly displayed when he plays crazed thespian Edward Lionheart, […]
Sid James and Hattie Jacques are on their best form in the 1963 British comedy film Carry On Cabby, one of the most definitive entries in the series. Director Gerald Thomas’s 1963 British comedy […]
Writer-director Woody Allen’s witty, bitter-sweet 1985 romantic fantasy comedy is a enchanting treat. It won the Bafta award for Best Film and the César Award for Best Foreign Film, as well as the FIPRESCI Prize at […]
This story of innocence undone comes from the director of Michael Collins, Mona Lisa (1984), The Crying Game (1992) and Interview with the Vampire (1994). Writer-director Neil Jordan’s 1998 film The Butcher Boy is one of this fine film-maker’s […]