With total of 158.8 million views since its June 20 debut, the musical fantasy is now in fourth place on the all-time English-language films chart.
Go, Tell the Spartans (1968): Ted Post’s Vietnam War Actioner, Starring Burt Lancaster,
August 7, 2025 by
Set during the early part of the Vietnam War, in 1964, Go, Tell the Spartans centers om he work of U.S. Army military advisors, based on Daniel Ford’s 1967 novel Incident at Muc Wa, when Ford was war correspondent for The Nation. Grade: B Go Tell the Spartans Theatrical poster Lancaster plays infantry Major Asa […]
Cannes Film Fest 1959: Marcel Camus’ “Black Orpheus” Over Truffaut’s “The 400 Blows” (Fest Politics?)
August 6, 2025 by
“What offends me about this adventurer’s film is that it contains no adventure, or this poet’s film, that it contains no poetry”–Godard about “Black Orpheus.”
Devil’s Disciple, The (1959): Guy Hamilton’s Disappointing Version of Shaw’s Biting Political Satire, Starring Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas, Laurence Olivier
August 5, 2025 by
The bite of George Bernard Shaw’s noted lampoon of American Revolutionary events, as well as Englishmen involved in losing a valuable colony, is missing from Guy Hamilton’s screen version
Last Summer (2023): Catherine Breillat’s Almost Audacious Tale of Taboo Romance, Starring Léa Drucker
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World-premiering at the 2023 Cannes Film Fest, Last Summer was well received by most critics, earning four nominations at the 49th César (French Oscars) Awards.
