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As Andrei Tarkovsky reached the end of his career, a combination of voluntary exile from his Motherland and a growing degree of introspection had a profound influence on his filmmaking. He shot Sacrifice, which was to be his final film, in Sweden. Using many of Ingmar Bergman’s collaborators, it’s a film which shares much with …

Dare to be Wild is a romantic adventure story, inspired by real life Mary Reynolds, a young landscape designer determined to preserve wild nature. Betrayed in the cutthroat world of Dublin celebrity society, Mary has little hope and no prospects, but has one earth-changing idea. But how does a penniless unknown dare compete in the …

Whilst his name will not be familiar to many, Val Lewton had a profound influence on the way movies are made. Starting with Jack Tourneur’s The Cat People, he produced a number of (mostly low budget) films for RKO Pictures. Indeed, The Cat People ended up saving the studio from financial ruin after a run …

Loneliness is probably the biggest social problem of the 21st Century. The internet was set to revolutionise our lives, giving us the ability to connect with people from all over the world. Whilst this is obviously the case, no one factored in what affect it would have on our real-life relationships. Many have withdrawn into …

From the visionary mind of the man who brought us House of 1000 Corpses, The Devil’s Rejects and Halloween comes the horrific story of five carnival workers who are kidnapped the night before Halloween and held hostage in a large compound. At the mercy of their captors, they are forced to play a twisted game …

Billy Wilder was one of the greatest directors working during the Hollywood golden age. The list of credits to his name, over a career which spanned fifty years, is mind-boggling. He was such a versatile film-maker and a brilliant screenwriter. Wilder’s credits include Some Like It Hot, Sunset Boulevard, The Apartment, Sabrina and Double Indemnity. …

When it comes to the business of hard-boiled crime dramas and film noir in the 1930s to 1950s, Hollywood had some iconic leading men. When you think of the genre, the spectres of Humphrey Bogart and James Cagney loom large. Whilst Alan Ladd is best remembered for his performances in westerns such as Shane and …

Two boys fall through a grotesque, nightmare London, endeavouring to survive and escape, and perhaps find hope, in this dark comedy. Set The Thames on Fire is out in cinemas on Friday.

If there was ever a quintisential anti-war film, it would be Paths of Glory. Stanley Kubrick doesn’t leave much to the imagination, deciding to faithfully adapt Humphrey Cobb’s novel of the same name. Based on a true story of four French soldiers during World War I who were executed as an example to the rest …

Dashiell Hammett was a prolific writer of hard-boiled crime fiction in the 1920s and ’30s. His most famous creation was undoubtedly Sam Spade, famously portrayed by Humphrey Bogart in The Maltese Falcon. However, many of his works were adapted for film and television. Stuart Heisler brought Hammett’s favourite of his own works, The Glass Key, …