Colossus: The Forbin Project is a great sci-fi film, made in 1970 I think. Solaris , made in 1972, is another great one (don't judge it by the atrocious remake). A Clockwork Orange is arguably science fiction. Time After Time is a terrific little movie that is undeservedly neglected. Demon Seed was...

I wish there was never any perceived "need" for censorship, that people would never have had such a desire to offend as they seem to have ever since. As much as I dislike the idea of censorship, I must say that the level of violence in modern movies disturbs and sickens me. I can't see an...

The film career of Sir John Mills spanned over 70 years and well over a hundred extraordinarily varied movies. It’s possible that his finest moment came in 1949, with <i>The History of Mr Polly</i>. Written and directed by Anthony Pelissier, it’s based on what some consider H. G. Wells’ finest novel...

<i>Too Late for Tears</i>, is an interesting little film noir B-picture from 1949. Despite its low budget it looks impressive, with some very atmospheric cinematography. Most of the action takes place at night. It’s a world of shadows and darkness, in more ways than one. Lizabeth Scott plays Jane, a...

nightwalker wrote:I never cared much for NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD (in any of its incarnations).

I made the mistake of seeing Romero's 1978 Dawn of the Dead. I felt sick and dirty afterwards. And terribly terribly depressed that anyone would make such a movie.

JohnM wrote: Or jealousy over the fact that Hitchcock had so much popular and financial success!

Or jealousy over the fact that Hitchcock simply had more talent than they had.

I always enjoy Ida Lupino's performances. She's never less than entertaining.

For me, and it's a very personal choice, the ultimate Dracula was Klaus Kinski in Herzog's Nosferatu. He was, as a vampire should be, genuinely alien.

Who else loves Jacques Tati’s films? In my opinion there may have been funnier movies than <i>M. Hulot’s Holiday</i>, but if there have been I haven’t seen them. When it comes to visual humour Tati’s only serious rival was Buster Keaton. And although Tati’s humour is almost entirely non-verbal, he w...

I love film noir, so it's probably not surprising that my favourite cinematographers are John Alton and Nick Musuraca. Alton's work in He Walked by Night is just stunning.

<i>21 Days</i> is a British movie I’d never even heard of until it popped up on Movie Greats a while back. With a screenplay co-written by Graham Greene, and a distinguished cast headed by Laurence Olivier, Vivien Leigh and Leslie Banks, I thought it had to be worth a look, and in fact it’s an excel...

In Jean Negulesco’s 1944 film <i>The Mask of Dimitrios</i> a writer of detective stories, played by Peter Lorre, is in Istanbul when the body of Dimitrios Makropoulous, a notorious criminal, is fished out of the Bosporus. The writer finds himself drawn into unravelling the threads of Dimitrios’s cri...

<i>Out of the Fog</i> has some claims to being one of the earliest examples of film noir. Made in 1941, it has not a single scene shot in sunshine. Everything is dingy interiors, or night clubs, or night scenes on the waterfront with more fog than you’ve ever seen and enough shadows to keep any noir...

MissGoddess wrote:My dream is a box set with This Gun For Hire, The Glass Key and The Blue Dahlia.

I bought the DVDs of The Blue Dahlia and The Glass Key a few weeks ago. I've watched The Blue Dahlia - a great little movie! They're both Region 2 DVDs.

Dewey1960 wrote:TCM runs this film periodically--

Not in Australia they don't. They're too busy showing Andy Hardy movies over and over and over and over again.