Three Days of the Condor
Sydney Pollack’s tale of CIA deceit is a great New York film and an entertaining conspiracy thriller.
Review by Paul Huckerby
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Man with a Movie Camera
Dziga Vertov’s silent Soviet classic remains a visionary masterpiece.
Review by Paul Huckerby
Falstaff (Chimes at Midnight)
Orson Welles’s 1965 Shakespearian adaptation was a deeply personal film to the director.
Review by Paul Huckerby
The Deer Hunter
Michael Cimino’s ambitious three-hour epic on the Vietnam War and its returning soldiers remains a powerful and stylish film.
Review by Paul Huckerby
Billy Liar
Billy Liar is a film for underachievers, that shows what is means to grow up intelligent, imaginative, semi-educated and bone-idle.
Review by Paul Huckerby
Point Blank
The dark side that lurks inside the Western or noir hero is out in the open in Lee Marvin’s role as a sociopathic hit man in Point Blank.
Review by Paul Huckerby
F for Fake
Orson Welles’s last film is ostensibly about the Hungarian art forger Elmyr de Hory, and de Hory’s biographer Clifford Irving, who himself faked an ‘authorised autobiography’ of Howard Hughes.
Review by Paul Huckerby
The Apartment
Wilder’s films in general are so well written it is easy to credit him as a screenwriter and overlook his talent as a director.
Review by Paul Huckerby
You Only Live Once
You Only Live Once was Fritz Lang’s second American film.
Review by Paul Huckerby
Le quai des brumes
The label ‘poetic realism’ was never more perfectly used than in describing two films made by Marcel Carné at the end of the 30s: Le Jour se Lève and Le Quai des Brumes.
Review by Paul Huckerby