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The Art of Love *** (1965, James Garner, Dick Van Dyke, Angie Dickinson, Elke Sommer, Ethel Merman, Carl Reiner) – Classic Movie Review 10,590

‘Two nimble American rascals turn Paris on its ear!!!’ Screen-writer Carl Reiner’s inventive 1965 Paris-set black comedy The Art of Love about a broke American artist called Paul Sloane (Dick Van Dyke) who fakes suicide […]

Nov, 27

Across the Universe **** (2007, Evan Rachel Wood, Jim Sturgess, Joe Anderson, T V Carpio) – Classic Movie Review 10,355

Director Julie Taymor’s glorious 2007 musical romantic drama film Across the Universe incorporates 33 compositions originally written by members of the Beatles, and stars Evan Rachel Wood, Jim Sturgess, Joe Anderson, T V Carpio Dana […]

Sep, 27

Much Too Shy ** (1942, George Formby, Kathleen Harrison, Hilda Bayley, Eileen Bennett) – Classic Movie Review 10,319

Director Marcel Varnel’s 1942 Much Too Shy stars naughty but nice (and much too shy) George Formby as amateur artist George Andy, the hopeless handyman in trouble when his art-study-course portraits of ladies are tampered […]

Sep, 17

Call It a Day ** (1937, Olivia de Havilland, Ian Hunter, Anita Louise, Alice Brady, Roland Young, Frieda Inescort, Bonita Granville) – Classic Movie Review 10,093

Olivia de Havilland, just 21, has her first top billing in a movie in director Archie L Mayo’s frivolous comedy Call It a Day (1937), based on British writer Dodie Smith’s cosy 1935 play about […]

Jul, 27

The Picasso Summer ** (1969, Albert Finney, Yvette Mimieux, Luis Miguel Dominguín) – Classic Movie Review 10,038

The weird and intriguing 1969 drama film The Picasso Summer is written by Ray Bradbury, based on his 1957 short story In a Season of Calm Weather, and stars Albert Finney and Yvette Mimieux. Serge […]

Jul, 15

Hour of the Wolf [Vargtimmen] **** (1968, Max von Sydow, Liv Ullmann, Gertrud Fridh, Erland Josephson, Ingrid Thulin) – Classic Movie Review 9922

Director Ingmar Bergman draws on his own recurring nightmares for his troubling 1968 Swedish psychological horror film Hour of the Wolf [Vargtimmen], which stars Max von Sydow and Liv Ullmann in a story about the […]

Jun, 16

A Bigger Splash **** (1973, David Hockney, Peter Schlesinger, Celia Birtwell) – Classic Movie Review 9509

Director Jack Hazan’s 1974 A Bigger Splash is a fascinating and insightful, though chaotically assembled semi-fictionalized documentary drama biopic on the life of the British painter David Hockney and the story behind one of his […]

Mar, 15

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