Sunday Bloody Sunday
The kiss was the killer. Peter Finch’s character, who shares a much younger (male) lover with Glenda Jackson’s character, kisses …
Category Archives: Foreign
Death in Venice
You don’t watch this film for the story, you watch it to lose yourself in the sad beauty of decaying …
The Thirty-Nine Steps
Humor alternating with suspense, Alfred Hitchcock’s trademark, are on display in his 1935 thriller, “The Thirty-Nine Steps.” The opening vaudeville …
Far From the Madding Crowd
You’d think that a movie based on one of Thomas Hardy’s cheerier novels, starring Julie Christie and Alan Bates in …
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
We’re going through a period of nostalgia for the bad old days of the Cold War. Back then you knew …
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Clint doesn’t wear the poncho until the end of the movie. Two hours in, he’s changed outfits several times, trading …
Breathless
This film hasn’t aged at all. The Paris exteriors, the cafés along the Boulevard Saint-Germain: you feel as if you’re …
Pelle The Conqueror
Frozen epics have a certain charm when there’s two feet of snow outside and the temperature is below zero. Sitting …
Great Expectations
The characters are Charles Dickens’s, as is the story (mostly), but David Lean made Great Expectations memorable. Ask anyone who was …
To Sir with Love
I was eleven in 1967 when this film came out and I can’t say I remember much of the story. …
