Karel Zeman died in 1989, several months before the Velvet Revolution, which saw the communist regime in Czechoslovakia stand down and democracy return. It was sad that Zeman didn’t live to see...
Le Corbeau (1943)
Henri-Georges Clouzot’s early noir piece was filmed under Nazi rule in France and was condemned right, left, and center for various reasons. After the country’s liberation, when Clouzot was banned...
In the 1930s, the Production Code led by Will Hays was formed as a board to certify films that were considered safe for distribution. That meant no overt sexual content, no obscene...
This autumn is the FIFA World Cup, usually a summer event that would take place later in the year with the venue being in Qatar. While it is a desert nation built...
Lisa Marie Presley praised the performance of Austin Butler as her father, the great Elvis Presley, in Baz Luhrmann’s biopic on the King of Rock n’ Roll. Butler “channeled and embodied my...
When Pierre Étaix died on October 14, 2016, aged 87, he was a figure who only just recently had a second life in film. For years, his movies were out of distribution...
Hotel Du Nord (1938)
Marcel Carne builds around a fallen hotel a place for social outcasts, namely two couples from the working class in different times of their lives. One is a young...
Into the summer, more and more screenings have come across the television with the continuing introduction of older pieces of cinema on the Criterion Channel. There are always themes every month with...
