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Writer-director Pier Paolo Pasolini’s thrilling 1967 Italian movie Oedipus Rex [Edipo Re] is Oedipus complex. The star of Pasolini’s first film, Accattone (1961), Franco Citti takes the title role of Oedipus in this beautiful filming […]
‘The future, Madame, is something we should have started on a long time ago.’ – Docteur Génessier. Director Georges Franju’s surreal cult classic horror thriller, adapted from the novel written by Jean Redon, is supremely stylish and […]
One of the gay Marxist aristocrat Luchino Visconti’s greatest films, this highly emotional, elegantly staged and gorgeous-looking 1954 world cinema romantic masterpiece tells the story of the tragedy of an Italian woman who betrays her […]
The 1950 romantic film noir Walk Softly, Stranger stars Joseph Cotten as a small-time crook on the run, who arrives in Ashton, Ohio, claiming to have lived there as a boy but with robbery in […]
Based on the 1933 novel by Robert Smythe Hichens, Alfred Hitchcock’s 1947 American film The Paradine Case is a twisty, talky and stagey but oddly compelling courtroom thriller, with an excellent cast of stars in […]
‘In Italy for 30 years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, and they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherhood and 500 years of democracy […]
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