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IP5: The Island of Pachyderms [IP5: L’île aux pachydermes] ** (1992, Yves Montand, Olivier Martinez, Sekkou Sall) – Classic Movie Review 11,849

Co-writer/ producer/ director Jean-Jacques Beineix’s 1992 French drama IP5: The Island of Pachyderms [IP5: L’île aux pachydermes] stars Yves Montand, Olivier Martinez and Sekkou Sall. A life without love is worthless is Beineix’s simple message […]

Jan, 15

Ikiru ***** (1952, Takashi Shimura, Nobuo Kaneko, Kyoko Seki, Miki Odagiri, Kamatari Fujiwara, Makoto Koburi) – Classic Movie Review 11,777

Director Akira Kurosawa’s 1952 black and white Japanese masterwork Ikiru [Living] [Doomed] is a gloomy but extremely affecting portrait of Japanese society through the story of an obscure old civil servant who finds he has […]

Dec, 08

Roommates ** (1995, Peter Falk, D B Sweeney, Julianne Moore, Ellen Burstyn) – Classic Movie Review 11,385

Peter Falk’s Oscar-nominated aging makeup in Roommates (1995) took four hours a day to apply and remove. ‘Some people talk. Some people listen. When you’re 107 and going strong, you do whatever you want.’ Director […]

Jul, 12

King Lear **** (1970, Paul Scofield, Irene Worth, Cyril Cusack, Jack MacGowran, Alan Webb, Patrick Magee) – Classic Movie Review 10,160

‘Know that we have divided In three our kingdom: and ’tis our fast intent To shake all cares and business from our age; Conferring them on younger strengths, while we Unburthen’d crawl toward death.’ Well […]

Aug, 10

The Old Man and the Sea *** (1958, Spencer Tracy, Felipe Pazos, Harry Bellaver) – Classic Movie Review 9995

Director John Sturges’s 1958 adventure drama The Old Man and the Sea stars Spencer Tracy, who sailed into Best Actor Oscar and Golden Globe nominations for his portrait of The Old Man, the Ernest Hemingway […]

Jul, 03

A Monkey in Winter [Un singe en hiver] [It’s Hot in Hell] *** (1962, Jean Gabin, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Suzanne Flon, Gabrielle Dorziat) – Classic Movie Review 9692

Jean Gabin plays Albert Quentin, an elderly boozer trying to forget an old flame, and Jean-Paul Belmondo plays Gabriel Fouquet, a young drunkard visiting his young daughter, who hit the bottle together in a Normandy […]

Apr, 30

Lucky **** (2017, Harry Dean Stanton, David Lynch, Ron Livingston, Ed Begley, Tom Skerritt, James Darren) – Movie Review

The legendary star character actor Harry Dean Stanton stars in director John Carroll Lynch’s splendidly quirky 2017 bitter-sweet comedy drama as 90-year-old atheist Lucky, a no-messing US Navy veteran living successfully alone in an oddball […]

Sep, 15

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