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Marthe: ‘What’s the matter?’ Jacques: ‘I love you. That’s the matter.’ Writer-director Robert Bresson’s beautiful, miniaturist 1971 French Eastmancolor drama film Quatre nuits d’un rêveur [Four Nights of a Dreamer] is loosely based on the […]
Gertrud: ‘The man I’m with must be completely mine. I must come before everything. I don’t want to be an occasional plaything.’ Writer-director Carl Theodor Dreyer’s 1964 Danish black and white classic film Gertrud is […]
Director Joel Schumacher’s 1993 Falling Down is an extremely worrying thriller using a sensitive issue for entertainment. But Michael Douglas reckons he gives his best-ever performance as the burnt-out All-American everyman, a middle-aged Los Angeles […]
A fictional Chicago architect called Stourley Kracklite (Brian Dennehy), working on a project in Rome, Italy, an exhibition in tribute to visionary real-life French neoclassical architect Etienne-Louis Boullée (1728-99), discovers that everything is crumbling around him. Stourley […]
Jean-Luc Godard’s jokey, peculiar 1985 French thriller Détective about four groups of people meeting in a Paris grand hotel, where a murder was committed two years before, is, as expected, provocative, progressive and experimental. Godard […]
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