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Mean Streets is renowned as the independently made movie that announced Martin Scorsese’s arrival as a world-class film director in 1973. The first film collaboration between Scorsese and star Robert De Niro, it is a key Seventies […]
Warner Bros’ 1931 thriller The Maltese Falcon is the first film of Dashiell Hammett’s famous crime novel. Ricardo Cortez stars as the wisecracking, cynical San Francisco gumshoe Sam Spade, who sets off on the trail […]
Co-writer/director Erich von Stroheim’s swirlingly obsessive 1924 epic silent movie tale of money obsession is ambitious and masterly. It was a critical and financial failure on its initial release, but by the 1950s it began […]
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 […]
Director Agnieska Holland’s plush, riveting and indeed quite splendid 1996 remake of Henry James’s novel is a worthy remake of The Heiress (1949), set in 19th century New York. Jennifer Jason Leigh is excellent as […]
William Wyler’s elegant 1949 film of Henry James’s 1880 novel Washington Square, set in 19th century New York, is supremely satisfying. The Heiress got great reviews and won four Oscars, with Olivia de Havilland taking […]
Co-writer/director Volker Schlöndorff’s astounding and quite extraordinary 1979 surrealistic black comedy deservedly pulled off the double whammy of being the 1980 Best Foreign Language Film Oscar winner and the 1979 Palme D’Or winner at the Cannes […]