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Director Orson Welles plays Mr Charles Clay, a rich Portuguese merchant in 19th-century Macao, who tells his clerk Levinsky (Roger Coggio) a true story he heard years before about a rich man who paid a poor […]
Writer-director-star Orson Welles finally realises a long-cherished pet project in 1965 in grand style with a little help from his friends John Gielgud, Jeanne Moreau, Keith Baxter and Margaret Rutherford– a film of his stage […]
Writer-director Orson Welles’s 1962 movie version of Franz Kafka’s novel about a man caught in a Kafkaesque bureaucratic red-tape legal nightmare is compelling, engrossing and spectacularly imaginative. Welles said with his usual modesty: ‘The Trial […]
Jeanne Moreau stars as nymphomaniac mysterious widow Anna, who wanders the waves in search of her dreamboat sailor she had known many years before. She comes across troubled British couple Alan and his girlfriend Sheila (Ian […]
Director Louis Malle’s 1958 debut feature Ascenseur pour l’échafaud [Lift to the Scaffold] [Elevator to the Gallows] is a brilliant, haunting and complex film noir thriller. It made an international star of the 30-year-old Jeanne […]
It takes three to tango, apparently. For his brilliant third feature, filmed in 1961 and first shown in Paris in 1962, director Francois Truffaut turns to the lyrical look at love that he was to […]
‘I had a fairly painful memory of my adolescence which contrasted with the regrets that others generally have for their youth. I wanted to express this feeling that adolescence is a bad moment to get […]