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Effie Gray *** (2014, Dakota Fanning, Emma Thompson, Greg Wise) – Movie Review

Emma Thompson won an Oscar as screenwriter for Sense and Sensibility in 1995 and now two decades on pens her first original screenplay that puts the marriage of esteemed Victorian art critic John Ruskin and his teenage bride Effie […]

Oct, 09

Rocco and His Brothers [Rocco e i suoi fratelli] ***** (1960, Alain Delon, Renato Salvatori, Annie Girardot, Katina Paxinou) – Classic Movie Review 1588

The magnificent 1960 Italian classic Rocco and His Brothers (Rocco e i suoi fratelli) is a triumph for director Luchino Visconti’s brand of operatic, heightened poetic realism. Visconti clearly relishes telling the trials, tribulation and tragedy of […]

Aug, 25

The Leopard ***** (1963, Burt Lancaster, Alain Delon, Claudia Cardinale) – Classic Movie Review 1243

Co-writer/director Luchino Visconti’s awesome and majestic 1963 movie interpretation of Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa’s novel about 19th-century Italy in dynamic transition from a collection of states into one nation boasts three wonderful international stars of the […]

May, 23

8½ [Otto e Mezzo] ***** (1963, Marcello Mastroianni, Anouk Aimée, Claudia Cardinale, Sandra Milo, Barbara Steele, Madeleine Lebeau, Rosella Falk, Guido Alberti, Edra Gale) – Classic Movie Review 634

Federico Fellini’s legendary seventh solo film from 1963 focuses on the trials and tribulations of film-making. With six previous movies and three halves, he calls it 8½. Marcello Mastroianni, Anouk Aimée, Claudia Cardinale and Sandra […]

Jan, 05

The Pink Panther ***** (1963, David Niven, Peter Sellers, Robert Wagner, Capucine, Claudia Cardinale) – Classic Movie Review 394

The Pink Panther is actually a diamond – and so is Peter Sellers’ 1963 comedy gem. Peter Sellers’s immortal, beloved Inspector Jacques Clouseau character made his delightful début in 1963 here in The Pink Panther […]

Nov, 11

Once Upon a Time in the West [C’era una volta il West] ***** (1968, Claudia Cardinale, Henry Fonda, Charles Bronson, Jason Robards) – Classic Movie Review 140

Complexly plotted, thrilling, vast in scale and visually breathtaking, Italian director Sergio Leone’s epic masterwork Once Upon a Time in the West [C’era una volta il West] (1968) is one of the cinema’s greatest Westerns […]

Aug, 09

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