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Venice Film Festival · 2024

Venice Film Festival 2024

Venice Classics

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5 films · 3 reviews

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The Big Heat

A tough cop takes on a powerful crime syndicate.

(Country: US; Year: 1959; Director: Fritz Lang; Writer: Sydney Boehm, William P McGivern; Stars: Glenn Ford, Gloria Grahame, Jocelyn Brando, Alexander Scourby)

His Girl Friday

When a notorious criminal escapes from jail, a newspaper editor goes all out to keep his top reporter on the case, even though she's supposed to be getting married the next day - to the man she fell for after divorcing him.

(Country: US; Year: 1939; Director: Howard Hawks; Stars: Cary Grant, Rosalind Russell, Ralph Bellamy)

The Mahabharata

Review preview for The Mahabharata

Holds your attention to the end.

Gary Duncan · 3 out of 5
A marathon drama based on the Indian epic poem about rivalries in a family.

(Country: UK/France; Year: 1989; Director: Peter Brook; Writer: Jean-Claude Carriere, Peter Brook, Marie-Helene Estienne; Stars: Erika Alexander, Maurice Benichou, Amba Bihler, Ryszard Cieslak, Georges Corraface, Robert Langdon Lloyd)

Pusher

Review preview for Pusher

he film does everything right in its portrayal of a character on the run... the characters are searingly real.

Tim Bryant · 4 out of 5
Seminal gangster film about an unrepentant drug dealer. Out to own as part of the European Mavericks Heart Of Darkness box set.

(Country: Denmark; Year: 1996; Director: Nicolas Winding Refn; Writer: Nicolas Winding Refn and Jens Dahl; Stars: Kim Bodina, Zlatko Buric, Laura Drasbaeck, Slavko Labovic, Mads Mikkelsen)

Silken Skin (La Peau Douce, The Soft Skin)

Review preview for Silken Skin

Before making the film, Truffaut spent considerable time with Hitchcock, who's style of filming and fascination with nature's dark side is echoed here.

David Stanners · 3.5 out of 5
A man begins an ill-fated affair with an air stewardess.

(Country: France; Year: 1964; Director: Francois Truffaut; Writer: Francois Truffaut, Jean-Louis Richard; Stars: Jean Desailly, Francoise Dorleac, Nelly Benedetti, Daniel Ceccaldi, Laurence Badie, Sabine Haudepin)