Given the success of the James Bond franchise and John le Carré’s novels and films based on his works, espionage thrillers were the hot genre of the ‘60s and ‘70s. In 1973, director Michael Winner brought together Three legendary actors—Burt…
Patricia Highsmith had a dream career. Her first book, Strangers on a Train was made into a successful film by Alfred Hitchcock. French critics—who respected Hitchcock more than Americans did at the time—began looking for more material by the woman…
Jack Cardiff was a celebrated cinematographer, notably having worked on Powell/Pressburger classics Black Narcissus and The Red Shoes. Cardiff was also an active director, having helmed over half a dozen films, earning a Best Director Oscar nomination for Sons and…
Criterion | 1970 | 141 mins, | PG The heist flick has been around almost as long as moving pictures. There so common, most directors follow a familiar formula: gather a group of thieves and give each one of them…