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Director Marek Kanievska’s 1987 Less than Zero is a very wobbly film version of the Bret Easton Ellis cult novel, which is much changed and a great deal less interesting. Andrew McCarthy stars as Princeton college […]
Director Chen Kaige’s dazzling, rivetingly compelling, exquisitely made 1998 Chinese period drama The Emperor and the Assassin [Jing Ke ci Qin Wang] is set in the 3rd century BC and chronicles the efforts of an […]
Director Lloyd Bacon’s 1940 Warner Bros gangster movie stars Edward G Robinson, Humphrey Bogart, Donald Crisp, Ann Sothern, Ralph Bellamy, Allen Jenkins, and Cecil Kellaway. Robinson plays racket boss mobster Little John Sarto who returns […]
Writer-producer-director Jean-Pierre Melville pays tribute to the French Resistance he worked for in World War Two with this extremely engrossing, powerful and challenging 1969 epic account of underground resistance fighters in Nazi-occupied France, set in 1942. Lino […]
Stage director John Dexter’s legendary acclaimed Chichester Festival and National Theatre of Great Britain production of Othello is plainly transferred to film by director Stuart Burge, but it is nevertheless a compelling experience. It records […]
Martin Scorsese‘s spectacular 2006 crime thriller epic boldly remakes the 2002 Hong Kong cult favourite Infernal Affairs and hit the jackpot at the box office and the Oscars. winning four, including Best Motion Picture of the Year […]
Director James Ivory’s and producer Ismail Merchant’s 1993 triumph is an awesomely meticulous adaptation of Kazuo Ishiguro’s Booker-prize-winning novel. Anthony Hopkins and Emma Thompson give the most incredibly impressive, subtle, miniaturist performances as Lord Darlington’s desperately […]