Le Havre
Directed with a lighter touch than usual, and coming complete with a real feel-good element, this charming fable could win Aki Kaurismäki some new fans.
Review by Paul Huckerby
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Rampart
Although James Ellroy’s novels have been turned into films before, most notably LA Confidential (1997) and The Black Dahlia (2006), Rampart is his first screenplay, co-written with director Oren Moverman.
Review by Paul Huckerby
Treme: The Complete First Season
Having spent the best part of two decades creating cop shows, David Simon seems to have found himself with something close to a carte blanche as to what to make next.
Review by Paul Huckerby
Man Hunt
Having left Germany and his wife - the Nazi-sympathising Thea von Harbou - behind, Fritz Lang was soon well established in Hollywood.
Review by Paul Huckerby
Pandora and the Flying Dutchman
Alongside a romance across the centuries we have an attempt at the world land-speed record, a romantically distracted bull-fighter, a gypsy flamenco band and a Tudor-period flashback.
Review by Paul Huckerby
Gainsbourg
Eric Elmosnino is not only an uncanny lookalike (although I suspect prosthetic ears), but has perfected Serge’s mannerisms and movement - that perpetual slightly drunk swagger. He walks the line between charming and lewd with great skill.
Review by Paul Huckerby
Tetro
Although Coppola’s writing credits are impressive - deservedly winning an Oscar for the brilliant Patton (Franklin J Schaffner, 1970) and co-writing The Godfather - it is the script that proves to be Tetro‘s flaw.
Review by Paul Huckerby
The Getaway
Sam Peckinpah might well have featured in the top 10 list of directors most likely to successfully bring Jim Thompson’s dark misanthropic world view to celluloid - if he hadn’t made The Getaway.
Review by Paul Huckerby
Double Take
Here it is Alfred Hitchcock who meets the 1980s version of himself during the filming of The Birds in 1962, which leads him to plan the perfect murder. ‘If you meet your double, you should kill him, or he will kill you,’ one tells the other.
Review by Paul Huckerby
Privilege
With the former Manfred Mann singer Paul Jones and supermodel Jean Shrimpton in the cast, it seems that Universal thought they would be getting a marketable ‘Swinging London’ film. Instead, Watkins set his film in a dystopian future as in The War Game.
Review by Paul Huckerby