In the middle of World War II Cavalcanti provocatively imagined a postwar England in which the failure of the threatened German invasion could be safely seen in flashback, thanks to the resourceful villagers of Bramley End. Once the ostensibly British troops in their village are revealed as Nazis, and the local squire as a fifth columnist, the community unites and fights back with startling ferocity. A call to arms as persuasive as Powell and Pressburger's The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp.
Carol Reed, fresh off the success of Odd Man Out (1947) and The Third Man (1949), directs this crime thriller with James Mason and Claire Bloom in the lead roles. In post-war Berlin, Ivo Kern (Mason) is a man with a criminal past who participates in the accidental kidnapping of British citizen Su...
Crime writer Larry Gordon’s peaceful train journey is disturbed by a piercing scream. When it’s discovered the guard has been mugged and a murder suspect is one of the passengers, Gordon finds himself experiencing a serious case of life imitating art.
Presenting hypothetical events in hyperrealistic documentary style, Gabriel Range's film portrays a United States thrown into chaos by the assassination of its 43rd President. Combining real footage with hauntingly realistic (yet scripted) 'interview' segments, Death of a President analyses the f...
