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La kermesse héroïque [Carnival in Flanders] **** (1935, Françoise Rosay, Louis Jouvet, André Alerme, Jean Murat) – Classic Movie Review 8403

Director Jacques Feyder’s 1935 La kermesse héroïque [Carnival in Flanders] is a bright French romantic comedy adventure that puts a bawdy spin on the story of the Spanish invasion of Flanders, in which 17th-century Flemish […]

Apr, 27

Love and Pain and the Whole Damn Thing **** (1973, Maggie Smith, Timothy Bottoms) – Classic Movie Review 4037

Young Maggie Smith and younger Timothy Bottoms star together in producer-director Alan J Pakula’s truly sweet and charming little 1973 romantic drama. Smith stars as the emotionally repressed, older English spinster Lila Fisher and Bottoms […]

Jul, 17

The Scarlet Empress ***** (1934, Marlene Dietrich, John Lodge, Sam Jaffe, Louise Dresser, C Aubrey Smith, Edward Van Sloan, Gavin Gordon) – Classic Movie Review 2936

Marlene Dietrich is truly magnificent in The Scarlet Empress, producer-director Josef von Sternberg’s spectacular and thrilling 1934 visual explosion of a historical romantic biopic. Forget screen-writer Manuel Komroff’s average sort of tale, which is allegedly […]

Oct, 03

All This, and Heaven Too **** (1940, Bette Davis, Charles Boyer, Jeffrey Lynn, Barbara O’Neil) – Classic Movie Review 2.741

Director Anatole Litvak’s 1940 period romantic drama film All This, and Heaven Too provides a gleaming, glorious showcase for Bette Davis, whose hits just came coming in this golden era for her. Charles Boyer provides […]

Jul, 25

Rigoletto **** (1982, Ingvar Wixell, Edita Gruberova, Luciano Pavarotti) – Classic Movie Review 2541

Director Jean-Pierre Ponnelle’s 1982 film is an enormous, undiluted pleasure for opera lovers. Luciano Pavarotti takes on the Duke of Mantua and Ingvar Wixell the grand title role of the hunchback court jester Rigoletto in the […]

May, 30

Moulin Rouge **** (2001, Nicole Kidman, Ewan McGregor, John Leguizamo) – Classic Movie Review 436

Fancy a musical? Come to that, fancy Ewan McGregor or Nicole Kidman? All three are here in this 2001 firecracker as you’ve never seen them before, all-singing, all-dancing in an outrageously flamboyant show set in […]

Nov, 22

Kind Hearts and Coronets ***** (1949, Dennis Price, Alec Guinness, Valerie Hobson) – Classic Movie Review 5

‘I shot an arrow in the air; she fell to earth in Berkeley Square.’ In his first film for Ealing Studios, Alec Guinness gives a brilliant display of his remarkable versatility and exquisite comic touch […]

Jun, 26

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