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Impromptu **** (1991, Judy Davis, Hugh Grant, Mandy Patinkin, Bernadette Peters, Julian Sands) – Classic Movie Review 11,767

James Lapine’s enchanting 1991 composer and literary biopic Impromptu has a great cast in Judy Davis as George Sand, Hugh Grant as Frédéric Chopin, Mandy Patinkin as Alfred de Musset, and Julian Sands as Franz […]

Dec, 04

La femme d’à côté [The Woman Next Door] *** (1981, Gérard Depardieu, Fanny Ardant, Henri Garcin) – Classic Movie Review 3022

Writer-director François Truffaut’s 1981 romantic drama is his 20th and penultimate film, which reteams him with Gérard Depardieu from his previous movie, The Last Metro (1980). Depardieu stars as a marine engineer called Bernard Coudray, […]

Nov, 01

It Always Rains on Sunday ***** (1947, Googie Withers, John McCallum, Jack Warner, Edward Chapman, Susan Shaw, Patricia Plunkett) – Classic Movie Review 2507

Director Robert Hamer’s bleak but beautiful 1947 Ealing Studios British working-class drama is set in London’s East End. It’s not a soap opera but a work of art, a mix of early Sixties-style kitchen-sink movie and […]

May, 22

Cheerful Weather for the Wedding *** (2012, Felicity Jones, Luke Treadaway, Elizabeth McGovern, James Norton) – Movie Review

It’s England one winter day between the wars and a lovely, posh young woman is about to be married — but something or rather somebody from her past is going to get in the way […]

Sep, 21

The Place Beyond the Pines **** (2012, Ryan Gosling, Eva Mendes, Bradley Cooper, Ben Mendelsohn, Emory Cohen, Dane deHaan, Ray Liotta, Harris Yulin) – Movie Review

A complex, ambitious, intimate epic crime drama, told at great length and in three parts, this steadily puts on momentum and power, and gains stature as it goes along. Weird that potentially the most exciting […]

Jun, 17

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