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Billy Bathgate ** (1991, Dustin Hoffman, Nicole Kidman, Loren Dean, Bruce Willis, Steven Hill, Steve Buscemi) – Classic Movie Review 10,158

If taste and talent were all, director Robert Benton’s 1991 film of novelist E L Doctorow’s fantasised biopic of young Billy (Loren Dean), who is taken up by the real-life Thirties New York City gangster […]

Aug, 10

The Battle of the Villa Fiorita *** (1965, Maureen O’Hara, Rossano Brazzi, Richard Todd) – Classic Movie Review 6823

The Battle of the Villa Fiorita is film-maker Delmer Daves’s final movie, a lively Italian-set love affair soap opera outing with ideal roles for Maureen O’Hara, Rossano Brazzi and Richard Todd, who eat them up […]

Mar, 18

Claire’s Knee [Le Genou de Claire] ***** (1970, Jean-Claude Brialy, Aurora Cornu, Béatrice Romand, Laurence de Monaghan) – Classic Movie Review 4260

French New Wave writer-director Eric Rohmer’s superb 1970 comedy of manners is his wittiest, most charming film. Jean-Claude Brialy stars as the 30-something cultural attaché Jerome, betrothed to a diplomat’s daughter, who takes a pre-wedding lakeside vacation at […]

Aug, 28

A Month by the Lake ***½ (1995, Vanessa Redgrave, Edward Fox, Uma Thurman, Alida Valli, Alessandro Gassman, Carlo Cartier) – Classic Movie Review 4248

Italy’s Lake Como vies with Vanessa Redgrave as the formidable main attraction of director John Irvin’s elegantly made, charming 1995 film version of a good old-fashioned tale from an H E Bates novella. In the […]

Aug, 27

Hallam Foe **** (2007, Jamie Bell, Sophia Myles, Claire Forlani, Ciarán Hinds, Maurice Roëves) – Classic Movie Review 3055

Co-writer/director David Mackenzie’s 2007 movie stars Jamie Bell as weird 17-year-old Hallam Foe, who can’t stop missing his mother after her overdose of sleeping pills and suicide drowning in a lake near their house in Edinburgh. […]

Nov, 13

Friday the 13th *** (1980, Betsy Palmer, Adrienne King, Jeannine Taylor, Laurie Bartram, Kevin Bacon) – Classic Movie Review 1815

Sean S Cunningham’s 1980 stalk-and-slasher film hit Friday the 13th established itself as a blockbuster, a firm horror favourite and a long-running franchise. Betsy Palmer stars as Mrs Pamela Voorhees. Watch out for Kevin Bacon […]

Nov, 07

All the Real Girls *** (2003, Paul Schneider, Zooey Deschanel) – Classic Movie Review 1551

Paul Schneider stars as promiscuous Paul, a famed womaniser who falls for his best friend Tip’s virginal younger sister, Noel (Zooey Deschanel). He’s had sex with virtually every girl in his small Southern American town. […]

Aug, 16

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