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Director Rudolph Maté’s invigorating 1950 film noir crime thriller is a well-deserved long-term cult classic, and was remade in 1988 starring Dennis Quaid and Meg Ryan as D.O.A. It starts off with dead on arrival […]
Jean-Pierre Léaud stars as a French film director who takes Hong Kong action star Maggie Cheung (playing herself) to be his sexy, rubber-suited super-villainess Irma Vep (an anagram of vampire) in his remake of Louis […]
Director F W Murnau’s tear-jerking 1924 tragic drama The Last Laugh [Der letzte Mann] provides a marvellous showcase for the great silent movie actor Emil Jannings. He gives a superb display of silent film acting […]
Norman Foster’s nailbiting 1942 film noir adventure thriller Journey into Fear bears more than a hint of the stamp of Orson Welles, who started the production, directed his own scenes, assembled a lot of his […]
French comedy genius Jacques Tati lets his hilariously clumsy Monsieur Hulot loose in a French beachside hotel for his beloved alter ego’s first film appearance. Joining the post-war holiday-making classes, Monsieur Hulot goes for an August […]
Director Claude Chabrol tries to make belated amends for the way the French New Wave he was part of attacked the work of Henri-Georges Clouzot, the director of Wages of Fear and Les Diaboliques, by […]
In an entertaining odd-couple double act, Dev Patel and Maggie Smith have the best of what’s going in The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, as their characters Sonny Kapoor and Muriel Donnelly pursue their expansionist dreams […]