Despite numerous other documentaries on the subject, as a masterwork of craft and technique, Alain Renais’ landmark Night and Fog still e...

The Bresson brand of neo-realism is perhaps exemplified best with this unconventional character study of a Parisian thief desperately in ...

Cinematic tough guy Don Siegel first exemplified himself as a director with vision with this razor sharp prison thriller, at once as a fi...

It’s easy to see why David Cronenberg was interested in remaking this semi-classic picture. Under the guise of a b-movie James Clavell’s scr...

Delmar Daves’ (3:10 to Yuma) uncomplicated western soap opera has taken the fancy of the Criterion Collection resulting in a visually spe...

Robert Bresson fetishizes the minute details of a French man’s escape from a Nazi prison during WWII, assembled together with clockwork l...

The monumentally powerful Japanese ‘jidai-geki’ classic which explores passionately the lifelong journey of a son and daughter of an exil...

A brilliant hybrid of stage theatricality and bold colour anamorphic photography elevate this strange Japanese folk legend of a woman who...

Arguably the worst of the Disney features up until that point, part of the general trend of decreasing returns since the pre-War Golden A...

Perhaps the ultimate chamber drama, the celebrated story of a jury of 12 men presiding over a homicide trial, for good and bad, is as much a...

Like most of Kubrick’s films, 'The Killing' is absolutely impervious to time. While the film is one of his most ‘conventional’ films...

While the spark of the Golden Age Animation was lost somewhere in the WWII years, 'Cinderella' still resonates as a marvellous examp...

Murder was never more fun and exciting for Alfred Hitchcock than in 'Dial M for Murder', a delightful chamber-piece murder mystery o...

Boasting Marilyn Monroe’s signature image with her standing over the subway grating on the street allowing the rush of wind to run up her sk...

Howard Hawks’ screwball comedy is a man-hunting classic featuring Marilyn Monroe as a shameless gold-digger on a cruise with her showgirl pa...

Perhaps the most influential film of Bergman’s early work, the one often cited as launching his international career, and certainly one of ...

Wow, just when I thought I knew Ingmar Bergman, the master of Swedish cinema known for often impenetrable art house elegies on life and d...

A Streetcar Named Desire (1951) dir. Elia Kazan Starring: Marlon Brando, Vivien Leigh, Karl Malden, Kim Hunter By Alan Bacchus As an ex...

A Night to Remember (1958) dir. Roy Ward Baker Starring: Kenneth More, Michael Goodliffe, Frank Lawton, Richard Leech, David McCallum ***...

North West Frontier (1959) dir. J. Lee Thompson Starring: Kenneth More, Lauren Bacall, Herbert Lom **** By Alan Bacchus If you haven't ...