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Writer-director Peter Greenaway’s critically praised first feature-length film The Falls (1980), funded by the British Film Institute (BFI), represents case histories of, or interviews with, 92 characters (played by the director’s friends) taken from an imaginary […]
Director Werner Herzog reunites with his Aguirre, Wrath of God star Klaus Kinski for Cobra Verde in 1988 as an infamous Brazilian bandit, Francisco Manoel da Silva, sent to exploit slaves in West Africa during […]
Tales of Fifties misunderstood youth were ten a penny, but director John Frankenheimer’s 1957 The Young Stranger is a first-class one in the best Rebel Without a Cause tradition, thanks to the playing of James […]
‘You’re never too old to believe in a dream. Or too young to make one come true!’ Director James Foley’s and writer Joseph Stefano’s forgotten heart-warmer fits in between Foley’s Glengarry Glen Ross (1992) and Fear (1996). In the […]
Director Federico Fellini’s 1987 fantasy comedy drama film is a delightful and imaginative tribute to the Rome film studio Cinecittá on its 50th anniversary and mostly a generous toast to himself. It unanimously won the 40th […]
Writer-director Agnès Varda’s 1991 French documentary is a charming, bitter-sweet tribute to French film-maker Jacques Demy (nickname Jacquot) by his wife Varda, who shared his life from 1958 till his death on 27 October 1990, aged 59. Varda’s […]
Writer-director Terence Davies’s lovely 1992 British labour of love film The Long Day Closes is his first since his 1988 Distant Voices, Still Lives, and is the third film in his entrancing autobiographical trilogy. Leigh […]