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Philip French

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October 2015

  • The Ladykillers

    Philip French's classic DVD
    The Ladykillers review – the greatest comedy caper

  • Eyes Without a Face

    Philip French's classic DVD
    Eyes Without a Face review – a work of poetic realism or surrealism

  • MISSISSIPPI BURNING

    Philip French's classic DVD
    Mississippi Burning review – incandescent civil rights thriller

  • EAT DRINK MAN WOMAN

    Philip French's classic DVD
    The Ang Lee Trilogy review – food and culture clashes link these early gems

September 2015

  • 1946, MY DARLING CLEMENTINE

    Philip French's classic DVD
    My Darling Clementine review – making myths of American west into poetry

    John Ford’s first postwar western is wildly inaccurate as historical document, but on the money if you want a magical, human vision of frontier land
  • Marianne Hill and Robert Forster in Medium Cool

    Philip French's classic DVD
    Medium Cool review – a landmark fusion of fiction and documentary

    Fact and fiction blur in Haskell Wexler’s Godard-inspired examination of the media
  • vivre sa vie

    Philip French's classic DVD
    Vivre sa vie review – quintessential soul-searching from Godard

    Every carefully considered shot of Godard’s fourth film questions the nature of cinema itself and how we perceive the world

August 2015

  • stromboli ingrid bergman

    Philip French's classic DVD
    The Roberto Rossellini Ingrid Bergman Collection review – a tempestuous affair both on and off screen

    It all started with a fan letter from Bergman to Rossellini. What followed were two surprising trilogies
  • 'Erotic charge': Jean Peters and Richard Widmark in Pickup on South Street.

    Philip French's classic DVD
    Pickup on South Street review – a masterly film noir

    Sam Fuller’s McCarthy-era thriller pleased neither the communists nor J Edgar Hoover but has stood the test of time

    • Philip French's classic DVD
      3 Women review – exquisite early Robert Altman film

    • Philip French's classic DVD
      Stalag 17 review – Billy Wilder's fascinating POW movie

    • Philip French's classic DVD
      The Third Man review – a near-perfect work

July 2015

  • 1980, THE LONG GOOD FRIDAY

    Philip French's classic DVD
    The Long Good Friday/Mona Lisa review – captivating visions of London’s underworld

    Bob Hoskins assures his place in cinema history with these complementary visions of London’s underworld
  • Eva Mattes as the mother, Helene, gives a deeply moving performance.

    Philip French's classic DVD
    Germany, Pale Mother review – highly stylised account of a family in freefall

    The life of a couple pushed to the limit by war and its aftermath is explored in this semi-autobiographical drama
  • Shivers, Classic DVD

    Philip French's classic DVD
    Polish Cinema Classics – review

    Communism is attacked from different angles in these three films made in a pivotal decade

June 2015

  • 1965, CHIMES AT MIDNIGHT

    Philip French's classic DVD
    Chimes at Midnight review – Welles’s Falstaff is a messy masterpiece

  • The Tales of Hoffmann, classic DVD

    Philip French's classic DVD
    The Tales of Hoffmann review – Powell and Pressburger’s purest work

  • The Offence Sidney Lumet

    Philip French's classic DVD
    The Offence review – Connery and Lumet’s starkly naturalistic police drama

  • 1964, THE TRAIN

    Philip French's classic DVD
    The Train review – it’s Lancaster v Scofield in this French Resistance thriller

May 2015

  • classic dvd goodfellas

    Philip French's classic DVD
    GoodFellas review – Scorsese’s gangster masterpiece

    A 25th anniversary edition of Martin Scorsese’s great mafia movie does full justice to its multifaceted brilliance
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