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Alain Delon is excellent as Monsieur Robert Klein in director Joseph Losey’s complex and fascinating 1976 mystery drama film Mr Klein, which follows a case of confused identity in Vichy France in 1942. Alain Delon […]
Writer-director Joan Micklin Silver’s appealing and atmospheric 1975 little gem is based on the 1896 novella Yekl: A Tale of the New York Ghetto by Abraham Cahan. Carol Kane stars as the Russian Jewish immigrant Gitl who […]
Director Alfred L Werker’s extravagantly produced 1934 saga tells of the rise of the Jewish banking family in 19th-century France and the Rothschild financial empire, inherited by his five sons, which helps to finance the war […]
Esteemed French film director Jacques Demy came to Germany and Britain to make this undervalued 1972 film version of the tale of the 14th-century strolling minstrel who leads a plague of rats out of Hamelin, […]
‘The world was watching in 1972 as 11 Israeli athletes were murdered at the Munich Olympics. This is the story of what happened next.’ Director Steven Spielberg’s dark, tense and sombre 2005 historical political thriller tells the […]
Remember the infamous old review of William Wyler’s 1959 Ben-Hur: ‘Loved Him, Hated Hur’? Well, the 2016 Ben-Hur provokes the response: ‘Quite liked Him (Jack Huston), didn’t even notice Hur (Nazanin Boniadi)’. At 125 minutes, this […]
Director Fred Niblo’s glorious 1925 silent movie masterpiece of General Lew Wallace’s bestselling 1880 novel is an all-time film classic. Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ stars Ramon Novarro as Judah Ben-Hur, the head of a […]