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The neglected and underrated 1972 comedy film Avanti! is one of the great director Billy Wilder’s wittiest comedies, with one of Jack Lemmon’s funniest performances as a successful but stuffy Baltimore businessman Wendell Armbruster Jr, […]
Writer-director David Lynch’s 1990 Palme d’Or best film winner at the 1990 Cannes Film Festival stars Nicolas Cage and Laura Dern as newly released convict Sailor Ripley and his girlfriend Lula Fortune. Sailor and Lula ignore […]
Pierre Chenal’s riveting 1939 French thriller Le Dernier Tournant is notable as the first film of James M Cain’s sizzling novel The Postman Always Rings Twice. Fernand Gravey and Corinne Luchaire star as lovers who […]
Director Glen Gordon Caron’s 1994 turgid romance is a bloated and pretty disastrous attempt to re-film director Leo McCarey’s 1939 classic and his remake, An Affair to Remember. Warren Beatty stars in an ideal role […]
Co-writer/director Alejandro Amenábar’s smart and polished 1997 Spanish romantic mystery drama was remade as Vanilla Sky by Cameron Crowe in 2001 with Tom Cruise and Penélope Cruz repeating the role she plays here. A rich, handsome womanising […]
Director Gore Verbinski’s intriguing but all too moderate 2001 thriller stars Brad Pitt as hapless, clumsy small-time crook Jerry Welbach, who is forced by his mob boss to retrieve a priceless pistol called The Mexican back […]
Writer-director David Cronenberg’s uniquely disturbing 1996 film of J G Ballard’s probably unfilmable parable novel about people into road crashes for sexual kicks caused a furore in Britain. The right-wing forces of censorship in politics […]