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Patrice Chéreau’s controversial, heavy-weight 1983 French film The Wounded Man [l’Homme Blessé] stars Jean-Hugues Anglade and Vittorio Mezzogiorno in a kind of obsessive love story between a teenage boy and an older man involved in […]
Christopher Reeve’s deal with Golan-Globus Productions for Superman IV included the chance to do director Jerry Schatzberg’s little-seen but watchable 1987 thriller Street Smart about a New York magazine reporter newsman called Jonathan Fisher who promises […]
Bank clerk Maurice Legrand (Michel Simon), married to ghastly Adèle (Magdeleine Bérubet), murders his faithless prostitute-mistress Lulu (Janie Marèse), then pins the blame on her pimp Dede (Georges Flamant) whom she loves, in director Jean […]
Writer/ producer/ director Werner Herzog’s offbeat 1977 comedy drama of cultural dislocation Stroszek has alcoholic ex-con Bruno Stroszek (Bruno S) moving from Berlin with his elderly eccentric neighbour friend Scheitz (Clemens Scheitz) and down on […]
Simone Signoret makes her first big mark in French cinema with her role in director Yves Allégret’s 1948 Dédée d’Anvers [Woman of Antwerp] as the Antwerp hooker Dédée, who is enthralled by an Italian sailor, […]
Director Ron Howard’s frantic 1982 comedy Night Shift stars Henry Winkler as Chuck Lumley, who takes a job as an attendant in a macabre morgue and gets mixed up with crazy, obnoxious partner Bill Blazejowski (Michael Keaton), […]
Director Peter Bogdanovich’s 1979 cult movie adaptation of Paul Theroux’s 1973 novel Saint Jack is one of his best films for many years, made after a three-year hiatus following three flop movies in a row. Ben […]