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Anthony Asquith’s 1960 British romantic comedy film The Millionairess has the huge virtue of bringing together Sophia Loren and Peter Sellers on screen. Director Anthony Asquith’s 1960 British romantic comedy film The Millionairess may be less […]
Co-writer/co-director/star Stanley Tucci’s flavourful 1995 labour-of-love food movie comedy is a civilised pleasure to watch. Tucci and Tony Shalhoub star as Secondo and Primo, the Italian Pilaggi brothers, who open a restaurant in 50s […]
The magnificent 1960 Italian classic film Rocco and His Brothers [Rocco e i suoi fratelli] is a triumph for director Luchino Visconti, with electrifying performances from Alain Delon as Rocco and Renato Salvatori as his […]
Co-writer/director Jules Dassin’s deservedly renowned and celebrated 1955 gem heist thriller is a compulsively watchable bona fide French film noir classic, realistically staged on Paris locations in winter. It stars Jean Servais, Carl Möhner, Robert Manuel […]
Nick Nolte is brilliant in producer Ismail Merchant and director James Ivory’s splendid, intense, beautifully realised 2000 film version of the classic novel by Henry James. What tangled webs we weave! A poverty-stricken Italian, Prince […]
In co-writer/director Michael Radford’s undeservedly little-seen 1998 oddity, Asia Argento brings just the right crazy allure to the part of Italian jewel thief Beatrice, or B Monkey, who sweeps dependable London teacher Alan Furnace (Jared […]
Robert De Niro is 71 and Sylvester Stallone a mere stripling at 67. In any other business, they’d have been retired, but in the showbusiness they’re about the busiest folks around. Somehow, they’ve managed to keep […]