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Director Franco Brusati’s 1974 Bread and Chocolate [Pane e Cioccolata] stars Nino Manfredi as Nino Garofoli, an Italian waiter who quits his home in Sicily for a better life in Switzerland, where, alas, he is […]
With the world at his feet after the brilliant The Last Picture Show, What’s Up Doc? and Paper Moon, writer-producer-director Peter Bogdanovich wanted to pay homage to the Thirties Hollywood heyday musical, and Fred Astaire […]
Director André de Toth’s last movie is Play Dirty from 1969 and it stars Michael Caine as the British captain in charge of a gang of ex-con soldiers who must obliterate Nazi oil supplies deep […]
Director Jean Negulesco knows how to make this double Oscar-winning 1954 romantic drama sweet and sentimental, and that is fine, but fortunately Clifton Webb and Dorothy McGuire are also able to inject a bit of […]
Co-writer/ director Michael Radford’s outstanding 1983 Film on Four World War Two wartime romantic drama is lit up by Phyllis Logan’s peerless performance as Janie, a desiccated Scottish farmer’s wife whose passions are inflamed when […]
Writer-director Ermanno Olmi’s 1961 black and white drama film Il Posto [The Job] tells an acute and perceptive story of a poor young Italian man called Domenico (Sandro Panzeri), a college graduate who is in […]
Co-writer/ director Max Ophüls brings all his sharp wit and visual elegance to bear on this enchanting 1953 French romantic melodrama, based on a novel by Louise de Vilmorin, which revolves around various adulterous love affairs […]