Chimes at Midnight

In the early 1400s, King Henry IV (John Gielgud) is annoyed with his son (Keith Baxter) who spends most of his time in the company of a rowdy, lying knight…

La Notte

The second film in a trilogy that began with L’Avventura (1960) starts out with a couple (Marcello Mastroianni, Jeanne Moreau) visiting a dying friend at a hospital in Milan; over…

The 400 Blows: This Boy’s Life

Jean-Pierre Léaud. Photo: Cocinor I do recall watching this movie in film class, but it didn’t have that much of an impact on me at the time. I find that…

Love Actually 

Writer Richard Curtis’s directing debut is one big, loveable mess, a romantic comedy with a huge cast of people who keep falling in love with each other. There are too…