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Writer-director Chris Marker’s brilliantly teasing and challenging 1962 28-minute French black and white science fiction featurette La Jetée (The Jetty) is constructed almost entirely from still photographs and tells the story of a man and […]
Director Alain Renais’s offbeat, humorous 1980 film My American Uncle [Mon Oncle d’Amérique] is a character study of a technical manager at a textile factory (Gérard Depardieu), a self-educated actress (Nicole Garcia) and a writer/politician […]
Writer-directors Ján Kadár and Elmar Klos won the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar in 1966 for this 1965 heart-rending saga The Shop on Main Street [Obchod na korze] about a wood-worker Tono (Jozef Kroner) who tries […]
Director Martin Scorsese’s unusual and disturbing mystery horror thriller is atmospheric, eerie and highly successful. It is set in 1954 in Boston’s secluded Shutter Island Ashecliffe Hospital for the criminally insane, where US marshal Teddy […]
Director Adrian Lyne’s eerie, eye-catching 1990 horror movie finds Tim Robbins climbing the ladder to stardom in a stalwart performance as the divorced, traumatised Vietnam vet, New York postal worker Jacob Singer, who is troubled by […]
Writer-director Terence Davies’s outstanding first film is an impressive achievement in bleak memoir, cohering satisfyingly, though made up from three autobiographical short films made over a period of six years or so. The anthology film […]
Terence Davies’s haunting 1988 autobiographical British film Distant Voices, Still Lives is a poignant study of postwar working-class life in Liverpool. It stars Pete Postlethwaite. Freda Dowie, Lorraine Ashbourne and Jean Boht. Writer-director Terence Davies’s […]