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- To Live, To Die, To Live Again [Vivre, mourir, renaître] *** (2024, Victor Belmondo, Lou Lampros, Théo Christine) – Classic Movie Review 13,484
- Police Dog ** (1955, Joan Rice, Tim Turner, Sandra Dorne, Charles Victor, John le Mesurier, Christopher Lee) – Classic Movie Review 13,485
- No Trace *** (1950, Hugh Sinclair, Dinah Sheridan, John Laurie, Barry Morse, Dora Bryan) – Classic Movie Review 13,484
- The Binding *** (2024, Yoav Keren, Shimon Mimran, Tal Ben Elazar) – Classic Movie Review 13,483
- Drive Me Home [Portami a casa] *** (2018, Vinicio Marchioni, Marco D’Amore, Jennifer Ulrich) – Classic Movie Review 13,482
- 29 Acacia Avenue [The Facts of Love] *** (1945, Gordon Harker, Betty Balfour, Carla Lehmann, Jimmy Hanley, Jill Evans, Hubert Gregg, Dinah Sheridan, Megs Jenkins) – Classic Movie Review 13,481
- Take My Life **** (1947, Hugh Williams, Greta Gynt, Marius Goring, Francis L Sullivan, Rosalie Crutchley) – Classic Movie Review 13,480
- Conclave ***** (2024, Ralph Fiennes, Stanley Tucci, John Lithgow, Sergio Castellitto, Isabella Rossellini) – Classic Movie Review 13,479
- Scott and Sid *** (2021, Richard Mason, Tom Blyth, Charlotte Milchard) – Classic Movie Review 13,478
- Dual Alibi ** (1947, Herbert Lom, Phyllis Dixey, Ronald Frankau, Terence De Marney, Abraham Sofaer, Eugene Deckers, Ben Williams) – Classic Movie Review 13,477
Collateral Beauty * (2016, Will Smith, Edward Norton, Kate Winslet, Michael Peña, Helen Mirren, Keira Knightley, Naomie Harris, Ann Dowd, Jacob Latimore) – Movie Review
‘Tis the season of goodwill still, I know, but Collateral Beauty stretches it to breaking point. I’m afraid that it is one of 2016’s least pleasurable viewing experiences. Will Smith, replacing a fortunate Hugh Jackman, stars […]
The Serpent’s Egg ** (1977, Liv Ullmann, David Carradine, Gert Fröbe, Heinz Bennent) – Classic Movie Review 4837
The Serpent’s Egg is the 1977 unhappy product of writer-director Ingmar Bergman’s tax-induced exile in Germany from his native Sweden. Despite the copious talent involved, we have seen it done better elsewhere. Its star David […]
Through a Glass Darkly [Såsom I En Spegel] **** (1961, Harriet Andersson, Gunnar Björnstrand, Max von Sydow, Lars Passgård) – Classic Movie Review 4838
Writer/ director Ingmar Bergman’s 1961 typically angst-torn Swedish saga of four unhappy people on a far-off island won the 1962 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. It was Sweden’s second consecutive win after Bergman’s The Virgin Spring (1960). […]
Shame [Skammen] **** (1968, Max von Sydow, Liv Ullmann, Gunnar Björnstrand, Sigge Fürst) – Classic Movie Review 4839
In writer/ director Ingmar Bergman’s bleak, starkly photographed (by the masterly cinematographer Sven Nykvist) 1968 futuristic war fable, a violinist couple (played by Max von Sydow and Liv Ullmann) are embroiled in a civil war […]
All These Women [För Att Inte Tala Om Alla Dessa Kvinnor] ** (1964, Jarl Kulle, Georg Funkquist, Bibi Andersson, Harriet Andersson, Eva Dahlbeck, Allan Edwall) – Classic Movie Review 4840
Apparently provoked by claims that he was a doom merchant, Ingmar Bergman comes up with this light-hearted and light-weight satirical comedy, and, funnily enough, it isn’t funny. Bergman’s first film in colour, it tells the tale […]
Three Strange Loves [Törst] [Thirst] *** (1949, Eva Henning, Birger Malmsten, Birgit Tengroth) – Classic Movie Review 4836
Director Ingmar Bergman’s intriguing, well-detailed early 1949 movie Three Strange Loves [Törst] [Thirst] still has a strong emotional pull but its appeal is mainly for his diehard fans who want to be completist. Eva Henning […]
Winter Light [Nattvardsgästerna] [The Communicants] ***** (1963, Max von Sydow, Ingrid Thulin, Gunnar Björnstrand, Gunnel Lindblom, Allan Edwall) – Classic Movie Review 4835
The 1963 second, middle part of writer-director Ingmar Bergman’s trilogy on religious faith, Winter Light [Nattvardsgästerna], stars several of his finest interpreters but is by far the starkest and most difficult of the three. It […]
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- To Live, To Die, To Live Again [Vivre, mourir, renaître] *** (2024, Victor Belmondo, Lou Lampros, Théo Christine) – Classic Movie Review 13,484
- Police Dog ** (1955, Joan Rice, Tim Turner, Sandra Dorne, Charles Victor, John le Mesurier, Christopher Lee) – Classic Movie Review 13,485
- No Trace *** (1950, Hugh Sinclair, Dinah Sheridan, John Laurie, Barry Morse, Dora Bryan) – Classic Movie Review 13,484
- The Binding *** (2024, Yoav Keren, Shimon Mimran, Tal Ben Elazar) – Classic Movie Review 13,483
- Drive Me Home [Portami a casa] *** (2018, Vinicio Marchioni, Marco D’Amore, Jennifer Ulrich) – Classic Movie Review 13,482
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