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The Spy Who Came In From The Cold (1965)
Richard Burton is perfectly dour and weary in the title role of the John Le Carre adaptation, The Spy Who Came In From The Cold (1965). Shot in black and white by cinematographer Oswald Morris and directed by Martin Ritt (who made Hud and Hombre), the film is set during the Cold War and follows… Read.
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La Caza (1966)
I took another chance on a film screening on The Cinephobe TV website. La Caza (1966) aka The Hunt was directed by Carlos Saura, a major Spanish director whose work I was generally not familiar with except for seeing one of his late-1980s flamenco movies (El Amor Brujo), which are gorgeously visual with bold colours.… Read.
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Local Hero (1983)
After rave reviews from a Year in Cinema: 1983 book I would read in the high school library and growing up with my parents owning the Mark Knopfler soundtrack on CD, I finally watched Bill Forsyth’s Local Hero (1983) on a DVD I purchased, the prototypical ‘business man charmed by small town’/’fish out of water’… Read.
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Mindhorn (2016)
Mindhorn (2016) was silly, to quote Bill Murray in The Man Who Knew Too Little, but good silly. Reminiscent of the Alan Partridge movie with a bit of Toast Of London and Garth Marenghi thrown in, it’s a 90 minute comedy vehicle for the great Julian Barratt from The Mighty Boosh, and on that level,… Read.
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Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (1978)
A musical tribute to the classic Beatles album but with The Bee Gees and Peter Frampton singing the songs – without much change or interpretation in delivery. This is what Robert Stigwood (producer of hit film musicals like Tommy, Saturday Night Fever and Grease) gambled on with Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (1978), resulting… Read.
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