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Director Robert Wise’s 1951 20th Century Fox black and white film noir thriller The House on Telegraph Hill stars Valentina Cortese [aka Valentina Cortesa] as Victoria Kowelska, a Polish concentration camp victim who takes over […]
This early Michelangelo Antonioni 1955 Italian film Le Amiche [The Girl Friends] is a highly successful, clever adaptation of a Cesare Pavese story (Tra Donne Sole) about the relationships between a young cosmopolitan fashion designer […]
Federico Fellini’s wife Giulietta Masina is stupendous as a fantasising Rome housewife, in his 1965 first full-length colour film Juliet of the Spirits. Sandra Milo is outstanding in star support as her eccentric, high-class prostitute […]
Writer-producer-director Joseph L Mankiewicz’s 1954 Oscar-winning drama stars Humphrey Bogart as film-maker Harry Dawes, who moulds shoeless gypsy flamenco dancer Maria Vargas (Ava Gardner) into a movie legend, after seeing her in a Madrid club. […]
Director Jules Dassin’s 1949 American film noir thriller is still fresh and knife-edge exciting. Richard Conte stars as Nico ‘Nick’ Garcos, a sailor war-veteran who joins a trucking business as a truck driver. When he […]
His thirteenth film proves lucky number 13 for François Truffaut as his much-loved 1973 success Day for Night [La Nuit Américaine] represents a huge return to form for him. Co-writer/ director/ star Truffaut’s 1974 Best […]
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