Philip French's classic DVD
The Ladykillers review – the greatest comedy caper
Alec Guinness’s thieves without honour are no match for Katie Johnson’s Mrs Wilberforce in this allegory of postwar Britain
Eyes Without a Face review – a work of poetic realism or surrealism
Georges Franju’s psychological horror is open to endless interpretations
Mississippi Burning review – incandescent civil rights thriller
Alan Parker’s finest film, based on the notorious real-life murders of three civil-rights activists by the KKK, remains tragically relevant
The Ang Lee Trilogy review – food and culture clashes link these early gems
Ang Lee’s ‘father knows best’ trilogy, made with the great Chinese actor Sihung Lung, propelled him to fame
My Darling Clementine review – making myths of American west into poetry
John Ford’s first postwar western is wildly inaccurate as historical document, but on the money if you want a magical, human vision of frontier land
Medium Cool review – a landmark fusion of fiction and documentary
Fact and fiction blur in Haskell Wexler’s Godard-inspired examination of the media
Vivre sa vie review – quintessential soul-searching from Godard
Every carefully considered shot of Godard’s fourth film questions the nature of cinema itself and how we perceive the world
The Roberto Rossellini Ingrid Bergman Collection review – a tempestuous affair both on and off screen
It all started with a fan letter from Bergman to Rossellini. What followed were two surprising trilogies
Pickup on South Street review – a masterly film noir
Sam Fuller’s McCarthy-era thriller pleased neither the communists nor J Edgar Hoover but has stood the test of time
3 Women review – exquisite early Robert Altman film
3 Women is among the least seen of Altman’s early films and one in which he took a particular pride
Stalag 17 review – Billy Wilder's fascinating POW movie
Billy Wilder put his own inimitable stamp on the comedy-thriller that wrested the prisoner-of-war genre from the British
The Third Man review – a near-perfect work
A new print does full justice to Carol Reed’s noir masterpiece
The Long Good Friday/Mona Lisa review – captivating visions of London’s underworld
Bob Hoskins assures his place in cinema history with these complementary visions of London’s underworld
Germany, Pale Mother review – highly stylised account of a family in freefall
The life of a couple pushed to the limit by war and its aftermath is explored in this semi-autobiographical drama
Polish Cinema Classics – review
Communism is attacked from different angles in these three films made in a pivotal decade
Chimes at Midnight review – Welles’s Falstaff is a messy masterpiece
Orson Welles does Shakespeare in snowy Spain
The Tales of Hoffmann review – Powell and Pressburger’s purest work
Cinema’s great double act deserved more than two Oscar nominations for their dazzling version of a 19th-century opera
The Offence review – Connery and Lumet’s starkly naturalistic police drama
Sean Connery’s tormented police sergeant is riveting, and a long way from 007…
The Train review – it’s Lancaster v Scofield in this French Resistance thriller
John Frankenheimer and Burt Lancaster made this true-life story their own
GoodFellas review – Scorsese’s gangster masterpiece
A 25th anniversary edition of Martin Scorsese’s great mafia movie does full justice to its multifaceted brilliance
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