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Director André Delvaux’s 1966 Belgian film The Man Who Had his Hair Cut Short [De man die zijn haar kort liet knippen] stars Senne Rouffaer as a middle-aged law clerk whose obsession with a famous […]
Chloë Grace Moretz stars as nice, earnest young Frances McCullen, who finds a handbag on the New York subway and returns it to its owner, lonely widow Greta Hideg (Isabelle Huppert), who, it is soon […]
Leonard Kastle’s chilling 1970 B-movie crime thriller The Honeymoon Killers is a long-time cult classic, with exceptional performances from Shirley Stoler and Tony Lo Bianco. My funny Valentine: Martha loves Honeymoon Killer Ray. Writer-director Leonard […]
John Hurt revealed that his personal favourites of his own films were Love and Death on Long Island (1997), in which he plays an ageing author obsessed with a young actor, and The Field (1990), […]
Director Josef von Sternberg’s exotically beautiful 1935 romantic drama stars Marlene Dietrich in her last movie partnership with her real-life Svengali-figure. It is based on Pierre Louys’s story of obsessive love, La Femme et Le […]
Director François Truffaut’s 1975 film about the desperate and doomed passion of the great French author Victor Hugo’s second daughter Adèle for handsome English officer Lieutenant Pinson is wonderfully lush and romantic – and deliciously […]
Back in 1981 when posh Italian director Franco Zeffirelli first filmed Scott Spencer’s steamy novel about 17-year-old American high school student David’s obsessive love for 15-year-old Jade Butterfield, it was advertised as ‘the greatest love story […]