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Benvenuta *** (1983, Fanny Ardant, Vittorio Gassman, Françoise Fabian, Mathieu Carrière) – Classic Movie Review 10,715

Belgian writer-director André Delvaux assembles a strong cast for the 1983 film Benvenuta, his skilful, stylish but finally puzzling romance about a film writer called François (Mathieu Carrière) who digs out a reclusive novelist called […]

Dec, 27

The Runaway Bus *** (1954, Frankie Howerd, Margaret Rutherford, Petula Clark, George Coulouris) – Classic Movie Review 9,477

‘All Aboard for a Non-Stop Ride of Fun!’ Writer-producer-director Val Guest’s 1954 British black and white crime comedy film The Runaway Bus stars Frankie Howerd, Margaret Rutherford, Petula Clark and George Coulouris. London’s Heathrow Airport […]

Mar, 08

L’Atalante ***** (1934, Dita Parlo, Jean Dasté, Michel Simon, Gilles Margaritis, Louis Lefebvre) – Classic Movie Review 8656

Director Jean Vigo’s 1934 French classic L’Atalante was cut about by its original distributor Gaumont, but the 1991 restored reissue version confirms its reputation as an enchanting romantic, surrealist, poetic cinema milestone, balancing the realism […]

Jun, 29

The Fog * (2005, Tom Welling, Maggie Grace, Selma Blair, DeRay Davis, Kenneth Welsh) – Classic Movie Review 6007

With director John Carpenter’s Assault on Precinct 13 (1976) and Halloween (1978) both profitably remade, it inevitably comes the turn of remaking his daft and unconvincing 1980 spook chiller The Fog. With the original being so feeble, there […]

Sep, 07

The VIPs *** (1963, Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Louis Jourdan, Margaret Rutherford, Orson Welles, Maggie Smith, Peter Sallis, Rod Taylor, Linda Christian, Elsa Martinelli) – Classic Movie Review 5557

Director Anthony Asquith and screen-writer Terence Rattigan’s Grand Hotel-type 1963 multi-drama soap opera movie takes place in a fog-bound London Airport, and stars Richard Burton as Paul Andros, a tycoon whose wife Frances Andros (Elizabeth Taylor) […]

Jun, 06

Midnight Lace *** (1960, Doris Day, Rex Harrison, John Gavin, Myrna Loy, Roddy McDowall, Herbert Marshall, Natasha Parry, John Williams, Anthony Dawson, Hermione Baddeley) – Classic Movie Review 3,126

The polished 1960 Hitchcock-style thriller film Midnight Lace stars Doris Day, exquisitely gowned by Irene, who was Oscar nominated for Best Color Costume Design. Day plays a terrified married American heiress, threatened by an anonymous […]

Dec, 03

The Fog * (1980, Adrienne Barbeau, Jamie Lee Curtis, Janet Leigh, John Houseman, Hal Holbrook, Tom Atkins, Nancy Loomis, Charles Cyphers) – Classic Movie Review 2969

Director John Carpenter, who had just done horror so brilliantly with Assault on Precinct 13 (1976) and Halloween (1978), comes up with this feeble, daft and unconvincing 1980 spook chiller. In Carpenter’s screenplay, written with Debra Hill, […]

Oct, 10

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