Film of the Day – The Last Tycoon (Elia Kazan, 1976)
“The past is a foreign country” writes novelist L.P. Hartley (most famous for authoring Fly-fishing, of course) at the start of The Go-Between, and you’ve got to admit he was onto something. Certainly old films strike me as somewhat “foreign” and it’s really hard sometimes to get a handle on things that happened decades [...]