- This film starts out like a lot of espionage thrillers: an innocent man witnesses a murder and finds himself mixed up in a deadly intrigue of spies and counter-spies. A movie of this sort can easily become infuriatingly complicated or just plain silly. At worst it can be both, as for example Jacques Deray's earlier spy…
- Beyond the front door of an old, decrepit house is buried a horrible and tragic past. One horryfing and gory night a family of four is brutally hacked to pieces. The only survivor is the young and beautiful housekeeper, Ella. When she steps out of the house one day, she has no idea that she is about to be snatched by f…
- One of the most direct, first-hand insights into Shirley Clarke's work available. Rome Burns is an episode of a French TV documentary series. In sharp contrast to informal footage, such as Michel Auder's Chronicles: Family Diaries I, here is Clarke firing on all cylinders. She answers fluently. Rapid-fire skilled inter…