Despite shortcomings and excessive running time, this all-star Cinerama adventure, produced and directed by Stanley Kramer was very popular at the time.

Based on the best-selling book by Larry Collins and Dominique Lapierre, Is Paris Burning? was adapted to the screen by Gore Vidal and the young Francis Ford Coppola and directed by vet French director, Rene Clement. The title of the film, which is three-hour long, refers to the question posed by Hitler, who ordered the […]

Director Hector Babenco, fresh off of his succs with The Kiss of the Spider Woman, made this disappointing film, based onWilliam Kennedy Depression era Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. Set in Albany, this bleak tale centers on Francis Phelan (Nicholson), an alcoholic homeless who was once a baseball player, makes one last effort to connect with the […]

Based on Alexander Dumas’popular novel, Ten Years After, and directed by Allan Dwan, The Iron Mask stars Douglas Fairbanks at the height of his career as DÁrtagnan, who comes to the help when the scheming Rochefort tries to pass off an imposter as heir to the throne of France. This part-silent part-sound film, which was Fairbanks’ last […]

Directed by Michael Cacoyannis, Iphigenia, the third and last of the Greek tragedies by Euripides, stars Irene Papas as Clytemnestra, who opposes to the sacrifice of her daughter Iphigenia, as determined by the priest Calchas, while the Greek fleet is on its way to recover Helen of Troy. Oscar Nominations: 1 Best Foreign Language Film […]