gareth's movie diary

BlackKklansman  (2018, US, Spike Lee) January 6, 2020 Run Silent Run Deep  (1958, US, Robert Wise) January 7, 2020 Les Petits mouchoirs  ( 2...

Le Grand blond avec une chaussure noire  (1972, France, Yves Robert) January 11, 2019 Yankee Doodle Dandy  (1942, US, Michael Curtiz) Janu...

1954, UK, directed by Joseph Losey (under the pseudonym Victor Hanbury) As so often, a viewing choice inspired by David Cairns , this is an ...

1950, US, directed by Felix E. Feist A pretty classic, B-level  noir , in which Lee J. Cobb's cop is bewitched and betrayed by a  femme ...

2018, Netherlands/Tanzania, directed by Jeroen van Velzen I came across this when searching for the film Transit ; it's a documentary f...

1947, US, directed by W. Lee Wilder Stronger on plot than on execution, with a nice, bitterly sardonic sting in the tail. 

1947, US, directed by Delmer Daves A sweaty, tense thriller, that picks away at the apparently benign exteriors of location and character to...