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Olympia ***** (1938, dir Leni Riefenstahl) – Classic Movie Review 9771
Writer-producer-director Leni Riefenstahl’s 1938 documentary film Olympia [Die Olympischen Spiele] [Olympiad] is an unhealthy paean to the Nazi belief in the power of the body beautiful and the rigours of the outdoor lifestyle, which is […]
Mephisto ***** (1981, Klaus Maria Brandauer, Krystyna Janda, Ildikó Bánsági) – Classic Movie Review 9348
Director István Szabó’s 1981 Mephisto stars Klaus Maria Brandauer, who gives a tour-de-force performance in this 1981 Best Foreign Language Film Oscar-winner about a leftist 1920s German theatre actor, Hendrik Hoefgren (famous for his playing […]
Jojo Rabbit *** (2019, Roman Griffin Davis, Thomasin McKenzie, Scarlett Johansson, Sam Rockwell) – Movie Review
Director Taika Waititi’s Jojo Rabbit (2019) is a bold but awkward, uneasy World War Two Germany surreal satirical comedy, with its major plus points in the performances of Roman Griffin Davis as troubled, lonely 10-year-old […]
Man to Man *** (1992, Tilda Swinton) – Classic Movie Review 7283
Filmed by director John Maybury in 1992 using what was then state-of-the-art digital video trickery, Man to Man stars the ever astonishing Tilda Swinton, who re-creates her acclaimed solo stage role as Ella Gericke, a […]
Alone in Berlin * (2016, Emma Thompson, Brendan Gleeson, Daniel Brühl) – Movie Review
Three very good actors – Emma Thompson, Brendan Gleeson, Daniel Brühl – are stranded through miscasting and poor writing in co-writer/ director Vincent Perez’s earnest and well-meaning World War Two wartime drama Alone in Berlin. It is based on the […]
Invisible Agent **½ (1942, Jon Hall, Ilona Massey, Cedric Hardwicke, Peter Lorre, J Edward Bromberg) – Classic Movie Review 4903
Director Edwin L Marin’s daft but engaging 1942 Sci-Fi thriller stars Jon Hall as the original Invisible Man’s grandson Frank Raymond, who uses his secret formula and is injected with a chemical that makes him […]
Defiance **** (2008, Daniel Craig, Jamie Bell, Liev Schreiber, Asael Bielski, George MacKay) – Classic Movie Review 4343
Daniel Craig takes a rest from 007 to play one of three Jewish brothers who flee Nazi-occupied Poland and take refuge in the Belarussian forest. There they join Russian resistance fighters and build shelters to […]