The French Connection
William Friedkin’s The French Connection (1971) is one of those films that completely revolutionized its genre and whose influence is felt even today. Entertainments that range from HBO’s The Wire… Read more »
Ruby
John Mackenzie’s film Ruby (1992) followed hot on the heels of Oliver Stone’s JFK (1991) but was even more liberal with the facts than Stone’s acclaimed picture. Ruby takes the… Read more »
Out Of The Past
After building a reputation with a series of artful B-Movies, Jacques Tourneur was given a lavish budget by RKO to make the iconic Film Noir picture Out Of The Past… Read more »
24 Hours: The World Of John & Yoko
Shot over the course of five consecutive days, 24 Hours: The World Of John & Yoko (1969) is a thirty minute documentary film made for the BBC. The film only… Read more »
Gniazdo
Gniazdo (1974) opens on the eve of the decisive Battle of Cedynia in June, 972. Mieszko I (Wojciech Pszoniak) is stricken by a terrible fever. Delusional, Mieszko I hallucinates his… Read more »
Of Freaks & Men
Russian filmmaker Aleksei Balabanov is best known for his crime film Brother (1997), however many of Balabanov’s early features draw on the traditions of surrealism as well as the Theatre… Read more »
Some Girls Do
Ralph Thomas followed his Bulldog Drummond caper Deadlier Than The Male (1967) with the sequel Some Girls Do (1969). This time insurance man Drummond (Richard Johnson) is out investigating a… Read more »
Tenebre
After creating the dreamy masterpiece Inferno (1980), filmmaker Dario Argento returned to the giallo genre that he had popularized in the late sixties. But the film that Argento made, Tenebre… Read more »
Das singende, klingende Bäumchen
In the years following its original release, Das singende, klingende Bäumchen (1957) became something of a staple on British television during the holidays. As Christmas drew ever closer, Das singende,… Read more »
The War Lord
The War Lord (1965) is a historical epic caught between the romantic pageantry of Cecil B. DeMille when Henry Wilcoxon was a matinee idol and the kinetic brutality of the… Read more »
