A comprehensive retrospective in celebration of the artist’s fiftieth birthday
Akira Kurosawa returns to the samurai film and to a primary theme of his career—the play between illusion and reality
The Monocle Book of Homes is packed with great photography that delivers the bigger picture and also offers a focus on the smallest details
Hailed by critics as a triumph
2 mins): an advert for Maypole Tea emphasising the quintessential Englishness of the afternoon tea ritual
Panique - Criterion Collection (Blu-ray) Boygenius A comprehensive retrospective in celebrationProud, eccentric, and antisocial, Monsieur Hire (Michel Simon) has always kept to himself. But after a woman turns up dead in the Paris suburb where he lives, he feels drawn to a pretty young newcomer to town (Viviane Romance), discovers that his neighbors are only too ready to suspect the worst of him, and is framed for the murder. Based on a novel by Georges Simenon, Julien Duviviers first film after his return to France from Hollywood finds the