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Writer-director Woody Allen’s 2017 Wonder Wheel is a dark, bleak masterwork, a late gem from the troubled film-maker, in the vein of his Blue Jasmine. I think I counted one attempt at joke in the entire […]
Writer-director Henri-Georges Clouzot’s stylish last film is his only one in colour. An unclassifiable erotic and psychological thriller, it focuses on the troubled mentality of an attractive young a television editor called Josée (Élisabeth Wiener) who […]
‘Raze the village! Burn this pestilence!’ Ralph Nelson’s intelligent 1970 Western film Soldier Blue has real quality – if you can stomach the strong violence. It stars Candice Bergen, Peter Strauss and Donald Pleasence. ‘Raze […]
Meryl Streep heads an outstanding cast in Fred Schepisi’s 1985 film of the David Hare play about Susan Traherne, an Englishwoman whose work for the French resistance in World War Two eclipses all of her […]
Director Etienne Perier’s 1971 British adventure is a goodish Boy’s Own action thriller, taken from an Alistair MacLean novel, in which an excellent cast, boats and gold bullion figure against a backdrop of eye-catching Scottish […]
Writer-director David Seltzer’s talented 1988 comedy drama teams Sally Field with Tom Hanks. Double Oscar-winner Field packs a punch as Lilah Krytsick, a New Jersey housewife with a burning ambition to be a stand-up comedienne. […]
Liam Neeson stars as a small town doctor in North Carolina, who finds a grown-up wild child (Jodie Foster) in a remote woodland cabin, who has grown up in the woods away from people. The […]