Stage Direction: Marcel Carné’s Les Enfants Du Paradis (1945) – Blu-ray review
French critics famously voted the film the best ever made in that country. In truth, it’s better than that. Les Enfants Du Paradis..
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Hither & Zither: Carol Reed’s The Third Man (1949) – the Friday Classic review
As English as Schnitzel, but with Graham Greene, Carol Reed and Trevor Howard, it’s a fascinating allegory of Brits abroad in a rapidly..
Demon Drinking: Billy Wilder’s The Lost Weekend (1945) – Blu-ray review
Some like it hot; others prefer it straight from the bottle. The usually wry Wilder’s acid diary of alcoholism is too-rye-ay. The..
Film Noir Manifesto: Billy Wilder’s Double Indemnity (1944) – Blu-ray review
Double the risk, double the reward. Wilder gambled on darkness, but made it so clean and crisp that “noir” has never been so..
The Life And Death Of Colonel Blimp (1943) – the Friday Classic review
To make a British film this wise, romantic and technically innovative is remarkable enough…but to make it in wartime is astounding. The..
