William Wyler's poor-little-rich-girl fairy tale — checked by a powerful and rueful sense of reality — about a savvy American journalist who shows a sheltered princess a good time on the town. The feminine role, possibly Audrey Hepburn's signature role, maximizes the actress's opposite sides, her outward, otherworldly refinement and …
George Stevens transforms the ragged Jack Schaefer novel into a coffee-table deluxe edition, illustrated in rich dark postcard color, specially designed for the moviegoer who prefers to encounter only one Western per decade. The pure mythic grandeur (uprooting a tree stump or brawling in the saloon becomes a psalm to …
William Wyler's poor-little-rich-girl fairy tale — checked by a powerful and rueful sense of reality — about a savvy American journalist who shows a sheltered princess a good time on the town. The feminine role, possibly Audrey Hepburn's signature role, maximizes the actress's opposite sides, her outward, otherworldly refinement and …
H-G Clouzot's "existential" adventure yarn, originally released in the U.S. at 105 minutes in the mid-Fifties, had forty-three minutes restored to it for re-release a quarter-century later. As it turns out, there are almost exactly forty-three minutes till the Latin American hellhole awakens to news of a fire in the …
H-G Clouzot's "existential" adventure yarn, originally released in the U.S. at 105 minutes in the mid-Fifties, had forty-three minutes restored to it for re-release a quarter-century later. As it turns out, there are almost exactly forty-three minutes till the Latin American hellhole awakens to news of a fire in the …
The H.G. Wells story transformed into special-effects pyrotechnics and, aside from that technical expertise, an all-over sense of innocence. Starring Gene Barry; directed by Byron Haskin.
Luis Buñuel's arid re-do of the Emily Brontë tale — dry in its wit as well as its Mexican landscape. This version is no more distorting of the original novel than was William Wyler's soupy one (1939), and Buñuel gives at least a little idea of why the novel was …