The Queen of Spades
All the advance indications predisposed me to like this old-school British melodrama.
Review by Peter Momtchiloff
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The Sorrow and the Pity
This famous French documentary, which looks at the town of Clermont-Ferrand in the Auvergne region during the German occupation in the Second World War, was made in 1969 but was withdrawn from distribution and not generally seen till 1981.
Review by Peter Momtchiloff
GOD MAN DOG
Taiwanese director Singing Chen’s second film God Man Dog is made up of four or five interwoven narratives. It made me wonder what the purpose of this cinematic form can be.
Review by Peter Momtchiloff
PARADE
Parade is very different from Tati’s other films. It is ostensibly a real-time documentary record of a circus performance in a Swedish cinema.
Review by Peter Momtchiloff
O’HORTEN
It is a film about Odd Horten. A taciturn train driver who has just retired. It is obviously a film about old age and death.
Review by Peter Momtchiloff
ARABIAN NIGHTS
Pier Paolo Pasolini, choosing this for the last in his series of three erotic picaresques, enlisted a ragtag of young Italians with little acting experience, and trailed around spectacular locations, apparently picking raw local talent on the spot to fill out the cast.
Review by Peter Momtchiloff
L’Argent
One of the ways Marcel L’Herbier’s L’Argent blazed a trail for cinema was in its unashamed updating of literary source material.
Review by Peter Momtchiloff
THE JOSEPH LOSEY COLLECTION
‘Trouble with Women’ might be a good title for this somewhat random collection of Joseph Losey’s films, featuring seven of the 26 he made between 1952 and 1976.
Review by Peter Momtchiloff
VAMPYR
How many of us can truly say that we have enough eerie in our lives? Vampyr is a deep well from which we can draw.
Review by Peter Momtchiloff
La Notte
La Notte‘s drama is one of existentialist angst, with Antonioni on the psychological trail of two individuals who find themselves alienated from their lives and each other in a world which needs them to give it meaning.
Review by Peter Momtchiloff