Ken Loach directs this touching story of childhood in a brutal coal town culture in the North of England, a film that is celebrated as a small cinematic treasure in Britain.
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Continental noir: ‘The Third Man’ on Criterion Channel
Carol Reed’s continental film noir The Third Man (1949), written by Graham Greene and starring Joseph Cotten as a cynical American pulp novelist playing detective in the rubble-strewn underworld of post-war Vienna and Orson Welles as a charming but ruthless black marketeer, is one of the true classics. The film is directed by Reed but […]