Alfred Hitchcock Archives

A relentless bleak but riveting adaptation of Jerzy Kosiński’s celebrated 1965 novel.

The Painted Bird (released digitally and in selected cinemas nationwide [UK & Ireland] from 11 September 2020) Cert 18, 169 mins. Nothing will prepare you for Czech producer-writer-director Václav ...

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FILMS TO WATCH AT HOME: Elizabeth is Missing, Lucian Freud, One Touch of Venus and Suspicion – reviewed by Robert Tanitch

ELIZABETH IS MISSING (Acorn). Emma Healey’s novel about dementia has been adapted for television. Elderly Maud’s best friend has gone missing. Her sister went missing in 1949. The two incidents get mi ...

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WATCH OLD FILMS AT HOME: Rome Express, Sleeping Car to Trieste and Night Train to Munich – reviewed by Robert Tanitch

These three British films can be watched on You Tube for free. Train thrillers have always been a popular genre. One of the very first was Rome Express, hugely popular with critics and public in 1932, ...

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A stunning love story about art, love and the female gaze.

Portrait of a Lady on Fire (February 28, 2020), Cert 15, 121 mins. A portrait of the plain looking Anne of Cleves had King Henry VIII scrambling to call off the marriage. A cash-poor, Italian born Cou ...

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