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Hotel Imperial *** (1927, Pola Negri, James Hall, George Siegmann) – Classic Movie Review 10,958

‘Pola Negri loving, hating, fighting, running the gamut of every conceivable human emotion. Never has she given such full play to her genius.’ Director Mauritz Stiller’s 1927 American silent film Hotel Imperial is an impressive […]

Feb, 24

The Horseman on the Roof [Le Hussard sur le Toit] **** (1995, Olivier Martinez, Juliette Binoche, Pierre Arditi, François Cluzet, Jean Yanne) – Classic Movie Review 8006

The 1995 The Horseman on the Roof [Le Hussard sur le Toît] is another French historical winner from Jean-Paul Rappenau, director of the 1990 Cyrano de Bergerac. Olivier Martinez cuts a smashing dash as Angelo […]

Jan, 13

The Emperor Waltz *** (1948, Bing Crosby, Joan Fontaine, Roland Culver, Lucile Watson, Richard Haydn) – Classic Movie Review 5942

The acid Billy Wilder directs a 1948 film of a sugary Viennese operetta, and the resulting romantic comedy musical is extremely well done. Bing Crosby is improbably cast but ingratiating as a pushy American gramophone salesman […]

Aug, 20

Up at the Villa *** (2000, Kristin Scott Thomas, Sean Penn, Anne Bancroft) – Classic Movie Review 1709

Director Philip Haas’s beautiful-looking but shaky 2000 romantic drama stars Kristin Scott Thomas and Sean Penn. Scott Thomas plays Mary Panton, a holidaying English widow who faces a series of dramas and choices in 1938 Florence, […]

Sep, 24

Brüno * (2009, Sacha Baron Cohen, Gustaf Hammarsten) – Classic Movie Review 535

What a vulgar little man Sacha Baron Cohen is! This Borat-style effort pushes the boundaries of good taste a wee bit further, as Cohen tackles (if that’s the word) his outrageous Austrian gay fashionista character, […]

Dec, 16

Jules et Jim ***** (1962, Jeanne Moreau, Oskar Werner, Henri Serre) – Classic Movie Review 290

It takes three to tango, apparently. For his brilliant third feature, filmed in 1961 and first shown in Paris in 1962, director Francois Truffaut turns to the lyrical look at love that he was to […]

Oct, 15

Paradise: Hope – Film Review

In the final film of Austrian writer-director Ulrich Seidl’s striking trilogy, it’s the turn of the 13-year-old Melanie (Melanie Lenz) to take centre stage. While her mum is in Kenya engaging enthusiastically in sexual tourism […]

Aug, 04

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