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LUC BESSON AND HIS “VERY PARTICULAR SET OF SKILLS”
Sasha Luss as sexy Russian hitwoman Anna (2019): written, directed & produced by Besson. “He reminds me a bit of George Lucas,” Robert De Niro said in 2013 on the opening of The Family, a Mafia...
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SIGNING OFF: END CREDITS IN THE MOVIES
There are two sorts of people in this world: those who head for the exit at the first sign of an end credit, and those who, like me, stay in their seats to see the type of film stock, the copyright...
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THIS IS (RALPH) FIENNES
Ralph Fiennes as Gareth Mallory aka M in Spectre (2015) The poshness of British actors has been much discussed of late, and they don’t come much posher than Ralph Nathaniel Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes....
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CATHERINE DENEUVE: THE 2017 INTERVIEW
Catherine Deneuve in La vérité (2019) In 2017 I went to Paris to interview Catherine Deneuve. The interview took place in a large studio complex in the 11ème arrondissement, and turned out to be a...
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SIX FILMS FROM THE 1980s THAT I THINK ARE UNDERVALUED AND/OR UNDERSEEN
This post started out as 17 Films from the 1980s that I think are Undervalued and/or Underseen, but I got bored halfway through and cut it down to a more manageable six. Some of the other titles I had...
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MORE STRIP THAN TEASE: EROTICISM IN THE FILMS OF PAUL VERHOEVEN
Isabelle Huppert and Laurent Lafitte in Elle (2016) Paul Verhoeven’s Elle has been described as a rape-comedy. This may be catchy but it’s inaccurate; there is comedy in the film, mostly thanks to...
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LORRA LORRA LORRE
Peter Lorre in M At the time of writing, it’s nearly 60 years since the death of one of cinema’s most deliciously sinister presences. Peter Lorre was born in 1904, of Jewish Austro-Hungarian descent,...
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Is Michael Caine Britain’s most important film star?
The Interstellar actor was remarkably underrated until the Nineties, but his versatility and voice make him peerless, says Anne Billson By Anne Billson 12 November 2014 • 6:00am Not the least of the...
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