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Posts Tagged "social satire"
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3 Women **** (1977, Shelley Duvall, Sissy Spacek, Janice Rule) – Classic Movie Review 10,471
‘1 woman became 2/2 women became 3/3 women became 1’. Writer-director Robert Altman’s 1977 avant-garde drama film 3 Women is an Ingmar Bergmanesque study of vain old folks’ home worker Millie (Shelley Duvall), new mysterious teenage helper […]
Fritz the Cat **** (1972, voice of Skip Hinnant, Rosetta LeNoire, John McCurry, Judy Engles, Phil Seuling) – Classic Movie Review 9566
Writer-director Ralph Bakshi’s 1971 feature film debut Fritz the Cat is a naughty, outrageous satirical cartoon for switched-on early Seventies adults about the adventures of a raunchy New York alley puss, Fritz the Cat (voice […]
The Day Shall Come (2019, Marchánt Davis, Anna Kendrick, Denis O’Hare, Andrel McPherson, Miles Robbins, Kayvan Novak) – Movie Review
Marchánt Davis stars in the 2019 crime comedy The Day Shall Come as poor, nutty Miami projects preacher Moses, who is offered an arms deal for the cash to save his family from eviction by […]
Strange Affair [Une étrange affaire] *** (1981, Michel Piccoli, Gérard Lanvin, Nathalie Baye) – Classic Movie Review 8884
Michel Piccoli won the Silver Bear in Berlin for Best Actor in co-writer/ director Pierre Granier-Deferre’s nimbly acted, craftily written 1981 French social satire drama Strange Affair [Une étrange affaire] in 1982 and Natalie Baye […]
Sorry to Bother You * (2018, Lakeith Stanfield, Tessa Thompson, Jermaine Fowler, Danny Glover, Armie Hammer) – Movie Review
Debut writer-director Boots Riley’s 2018 surreal satirical comedy Sorry to Bother You is a nice try, with ambition and intelligence behind it, but it is mostly strained and unamusing. It is pretty much a one-joke movie, […]
The Wedding March ***** (1928, Erich von Stroheim, Fay Wray, Zasu Pitts) – Classic Movie Review 4227
Ring the bells for this exhilarating silent movie classic, wayward director Erich von Stroheim’s last masterpiece, beautifully restored in a shining new print. The director himself entertainingly over-acts as Prince Nickolas von Wildeliebe-Rauffenburg – Nikki […]
An Ideal Husband **** (1999, Rupert Everett, Julianne Moore, Jeremy Northam, Cate Blanchett, John Wood, Minnie Driver, Peter Vaughan) – Classic Movie Review 1160
Oscar Wilde’s witty satirical comedy play about a 1895 titled Englishman who rescues the career of a London diplomat threatened by a blackmailing old lover makes for a second very enjoyable and pretty special film […]