Badlands (1973)

Kevin Kline’s Mr Hundert is a (slightly) updated version of Mr Chips, and yet he seems to have missed his calling. He was meant to be Regis Philbin.

An unforgettable docu-drama about a climbing accident in the Andes nearly 20 years ago which is still being talked about among mountaineers

A fascinating document for future scholars writing the history of the American celebrity culture

What makes Tim Story’s film so good as moral instruction is what makes it, um, not quite so good as a movie.

Un Air de Famille, directed by Cédric Klapisch (While the Cat’s Away) from an original play by Agnès Jaoui and Jean-Pierre Bacri, is enormous fun, and I highly recommend it if you are lucky enough to find it opening in your neighborhood. Denis (Jean-Pierre Darroussin) is having affair with Betty (Miss Jaoui) while working for…

Trial and Error by Jonathan Lynn, to a screenplay by Sara Bernstein and Gregory Bernstein, based on the former’s short story, has its funny moments, though the clichés come too thick and fast for the film to be quite satisfying in the end. In fact the basic situation the comedy presents us with is one…