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Allied prisoners of war make a daring escape by hijacking their freight train and fleeing through German-occupied Italy to Switzerland, in the 1965 World War Two adventure film Von Ryan’s Express, starring Frank Sinatra. Director […]
Debut director Luchino Visconti’s 1943 Italian crime thriller film Ossessione marks the second time James M Cain’s irresistible plot rang at cinema box offices. Visconti failed to get rights to the novel and the film […]
One of the gay Marxist aristocrat Luchino Visconti’s greatest films, this highly emotional, elegantly staged and gorgeous-looking 1954 world cinema romantic masterpiece tells the story of the tragedy of an Italian woman who betrays her […]
Director Michael Winterbottom’s intelligent and involving film takes the real-life Italian murder case of British student Meredith Kercher in 2007 and turns it into a sideways take on events, profitably focusing on a documentary film-maker/screenwriter (Daniel Brühl) and his […]
John Schlesinger’s 1965 film Darling stars Julie Christie at her most luminous. She won the Best Actress Oscar as an ambitious, amoral English model who sleeps her way to the top of the Swinging London […]
Director Federico Fellini’s exuberant 1976 masterwork is an amazing-looking, awesome movie, in which an unexpectedly but perfectly cast Donald Sutherland astonishes as the forehead-shaved, bewigged, foppish 18th-century Venetian rake, Giacomo Casanova. What’s on screen is […]
Roger Corman’s 1990 reworking of the Frankenstein legend with a sci-fi spin is an intriguing horror movie, based on Brian W Aldiss’s novel, with good performances from John Hurt, Raul Julia and Bridget Fonda. Director/co-writer […]