Blake Edwards’ 1962 thriller, Experiment in Terror, opens on the night skyline of San Francisco. Lines of traffic cruise down the highway in the pitch black with Henry Mancini’s haunting and sinister score lumbering in the background. It then cuts to a suburb with a convertible pulling into a garage. […]
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Shadows and Fog (1990) Woody Allen’s Under-rated Homage to German Silent Cinema (Review)
One year following his overlooked 1990 film, Alice, Woody Allen followed that up with his tribute film towards the German expressionist film movement, Shadows and Fog. As the title suggests, Allen and cinematographer, Carlo Di Palma, soak the film in a misty and darkened b/w atmosphere, so Woody was obviously […]
Two Rode Together (1961) The John Ford Western nobody talks about (Review)
Radio Days (1987) Honey-hued homage to the Golden Era of Radio (Review)
Varieté (1925) Emil Jannings and trapeze scene that defies a century (Review)
Three Wishes For Cinderella (1973) A Christmas Favourite in Mainland Europe for all the right reasons (Review)
The Small World of Sammy Lee (1963) A Forgotten Gem of the Wave of British Social Realism (Review)
Odds Against Tomorrow (1959) Harry Belafonte and the overlooked birth of the Neo-Noir (Review)
The Clan (2015) Carries on the Baton for Argentine Crime Cinema (Review)
Following his stint in the Spanish-language anthology film, 7 Days in Havana which was undertaken by several filmmakers and actors from the golden boy, Benicio del Toro to Emir Kusturica. Pablo Trapero returns to the director’s chair with a kaboom in The Clan, Argentina’s entry for the Best Foreign Language […]
The Secret of Santa Vittoria (1969) A beautifully photographed diamond in the rough (Review)
Two years after he dropped the critically lauded Sidney Poitier picture, Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner? Stanley Kramer flew over to Italy to begin what-would-be his next big feature, an adaptation of Robert Crichton’s first novel, The Secret of Santa Vittoria. Kramer, the acclaimed director behind the courtroom drama, Judgement […]