2021: The Year in Old Movies
Because looking at 2021 in other ways is too much of a drag
Behold the Siren’s annual list of the best old movies she viewed this year. (Unranked, as usual.)
L’Assassino (Elio Petri, 1961, Italy) An astringent tragicomedy with superb work both from Marcello Mastroianni and Micheline Presle (who is still with us, age 99). Mastroianni is Alfredo Martelli, an unscrupulous antiques dealer. How unscrupulous? It will t…