Viewfinder Reviews - page 3

• La signora di tutti

  Review type: Video | Posted on: 1 July 2015

  Danielle Hipkins reviews a lost classic by director Max Ophuls.

• The Lost World of Friese-Greene

  Review type: Video | Posted on: 22 June 2015

  We look back at one of the pioneers of British cinema.

• Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey

  Review type: Video | Posted on: 21 May 2015

  Dr Simon Goodwin enthuses about this new 13-part series now available in High Def.

• Alain Robbe-Grillet: Six Films 1963-1974

  Review type: Video | Posted on: 19 March 2015

  We examine a DVD collection from avant-garde master, Alain Robbe-Grillet.

• Red Shift

  Review type: Video | Posted on: 26 February 2015

  The 1978 TV play by Alan Garner arrives on DVD

• The Armstrong Lie

  Review type: Video | Posted on: 5 February 2015

  We review Alex Gibney’s film on the rise and fall of Lance Armstrong.

• The Big Melt

  Review type: Video | Posted on: 27 January 2015

  We review Martin Wallace and Jarvis Cocker’s documentary about Sheffield, an ‘evocative example of contemporary poetic realism’

• Rome, Open City

  Review type: Video | Posted on: 22 December 2014

  We review a classic of Italian neo-realist cinema.

• The Caesars

  Review type: Video | Posted on: 11 December 2014

  Dr Marco Angelini looks at The Caesars (1968) and other examples of depictions of Roman History on screen.

• Battle of the Somme

  Review type: Video | Posted on: 10 November 2014

  Dr Nicholas Hiley reviews a now hard-to-find DVD presentation of a classic First World War documentary.