Susan Sarandon

  • Robert Benton – Twilight (1998)

    1991-2000CrimeFilm NoirRobert BentonUSA
    Twilight (1998)
    Twilight (1998)

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    A retired ex-cop and private detective (Newman) who lives with a rich actor (Hackman) who is dying from cancer and his actress wife (Sarandon) gets mixed up in murder when he is asked to deliver blackmail money. He walks into a 20 year old case involving the mysterious disappearance of the actress’s former husband. James Garner appears as another ex-cop who also does occasional errands for the couple.Read More »

  • Louis Malle – Pretty Baby (1978)

    1971-1980ArthouseDramaLouis MalleUSA

    In 1917, in the red light district Storyville, New Orleans, the prostitute Hattie lives with her twelve year-old daughter Violet in the fancy brothel of Madame Nell, where she works. Photographer Ernest J. Bellocq has an attraction to Hallie and Violet and he is an habitué of the whorehouse. One day, Madame Nell auctions Violet’s virginity and the winner pays the fortune of US$ 400 to spend the night with the girl. Then Hattie marries a wealthy client and moves to Saint Louis, leaving Violet in the brothel alone. Violet decides to marry Bellocq and she moves to his house. Until the day that Hattie, who has overcome her past, comes to Bellocq’s house with the intention to take Violet with her.Read More »

  • Billy Wilder – The Front Page (1974)

    1971-1980Billy WilderClassicsComedyUSA

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    Billy Wilder’s 1974 remake of the Ben Hecht – Charles MacArthur play The Front Page, famously adapted 34 years before, by Howard Hawks as His Girl Friday, is widely regarded as that point in time when Wilder’s art went into rapid decline, that the picture demonstrated that the director of Sunset Boulevard, Ace in the Hole, and The Apartment had lost his confidence, that he had become out of step with the times and could no longer connect with the tastes of a changing movie-going audience. In fact The Front Page is a reasonably successful adaptation, darkly cynical like most of Wilder’s best work. Wilder and collaborator I.A.L. Read More »

  • Xavier Dolan – The Death and Life of John F. Donovan (2018)

    2011-2020CanadaDramaQueer Cinema(s)Xavier Dolan

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    A decade after the death of an American TV star, a young actor reminisces the written correspondence he shared with him, as well as the impact those letters had on both their lives.Read More »

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