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Powaqqatsi **** (1988, director Godfrey Reggio) – Classic Movie Review 10,148

Director Godfrey Reggio’s 1988 documentary Powaqqatsi is the very welcome sequel to Koyaanisqatsi (1982), with another extraordinary Philip Glass score. It is a collage of scenes of cultures around the globe, showing how the Third […]

Aug, 08

Parasite [Gisaengchung] **** (2019, Kang-ho Song, Sun-kyun Lee, Yeo-jeong Jo, Woo-sik Choi, Hye-jin Jang, So-dam Park, Ji-so Jung) – Movie Review

Co-writer/ director Bong Joon Ho’s Cannes Palme d’Or and triple Oscar winner Parasite [Gisaengchung] (2019) is fascinating, provocative and thought provoking in a way that is not normal for a thriller. But then Parasite is […]

Feb, 10

The Fifteen Streets *** (1989, Owen Teale, Sean Bean, Clare Holman, Ian Bannen, Jane Horrocks, Billie Whitelaw, Frank Windsor, Anny Tobin) – Classic Movie Review 8659

Director David Wheatley’s 1989 historical romantic drama The Fifteen Streets is a very capably directed, incident-filled romance, effectively adapted by Rob Bettinson from a Catherine Cookson novel, with a well-played cast of rich caricatures and […]

Jun, 29

Shoeshine [Sciuscià] ***** (1946, Franco Interlenghi, Rinaldo Smordoni, Annielo Mele) – Classic Movie Review 8450

Director Vittorio De Sica’s 1946 Shoeshine [Sciuscià] is an exquisitely made, deeply moving early Italian neo-realist world cinema classic set in post-World War Two, post-Facsist Rome. There two deprived, hungry and homeless shoeshine boys (Franco […]

May, 09

Shoplifters [Manbiki kazoku] ***** (2018, Lily Franky, Sakura Andô, Mayu Matsuoka, Jyo Kairi, Miyu Sasaki) – Movie Review

Writer-director Hirokazu Koreeda’s warm and wonderful Shoplifters (2018) won the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival in 2018. It focuses on a poor Japanese family of small-time thieves, shoplifting to make ends meet, who take in […]

Jan, 04

Miracle in Milan [Miracolo a Milano] **** (1951, Emma Gramatica, Francesco Golisano, Paolo Stoppa, Brunella Bovo, Guglielmo Barnabò) – Classic Movie Review 7711

Producer-director Vittorio De Sica’s warmhearted 1951 Italian classic Miracle in Milan [Miracolo a Milano] is a fairy tale about an angelic young orphan called Totò (Francesco Golisano) who arrives in a poor community outside Milan where […]

Oct, 28

A Raisin in the Sun **** (1961, Sidney Poitier, Claudia McNeil, Ruby Dee) – Classic Movie Review 7308

Director Daniel Petrie’s 1961 drama A Raisin in the Sun is a satisfying, moving and involving, though virtually one-set, filmed theatre version of Lorraine Hansberry’s long-running Broadway play, which won the 1959 New York Critics […]

Jul, 18

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