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Richard Dix plays a charming middle-aged artist who starts a relationship with a grasping young artist’s model (Leslie Brooks) while his older wealthy wife (Mary Currier) is suffering heart attacks. Director George Sherman’s effective 1946 […]
Angela Winkler stars in the outstanding 1975 West German political drama film The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum [Die Verlorene Ehre der Katharina Blum], based on the 1974 novel by Heinrich Böll. The outstanding, valuable, […]
Director Lewis Seiler’s 1945 20th Century Fox American comedy film Molly and Me stars Gracie Fields and Monty Woolley, reunited after their 1943 hit Holy Matrimony. The screenplay by Leonard Praskins is based on the […]
Percy Adlon’s fascinating 1981 German film Céleste tells the story of the final years of the French gay writer Marcel Proust (Jürgen Arndt) through the eyes of his housekeeper. Writer-director Percy Adlon’s fascinating 1981 German […]
Director Fletcher Markle’s 1951 MGM black and white Gothic noir thriller The Man with a Cloak is a sleekly made, very unusual and involving 19th-century Manhattan murder mystery propelled along with an excellent cast, including […]
Co-writer/ director Bong Joon Ho’s Cannes Palme d’Or and triple Oscar winner Parasite [Gisaengchung] (2019) is fascinating, provocative and thought provoking in a way that is not normal for a thriller. But then Parasite is […]
Writer-producer-director Richard Brooks’s 1969 drama The Happy Ending stars Jean Simmons as a middle-aged American woman who looks back on a long, unhappy marriage as she walks out on her husband and family in order […]