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Persona ***** (1966, Bibi Andersson, Liv Ullmann, Margaretha Krook) – Classic Movie Review 3945

Writer-director Ingmar Bergman’s incredibly intense 1966 psychological drama is set in an isolated beach-house where a beautiful, famous actress Elisabeth Vogler (Liv Ullmann) and her tormented nurse Alma (Bibi Andersson) struggle to come to terms […]

Jun, 28

Les Enfants du Paradis [Children of Paradise] ***** (1945, Arletty, Jean-Louis Barrault, Pierre Brasseur) – Classic Movie Review 3811

Director Marcel Carné’s glorious French 1945 epic romantic movie re-creates 1830s and 1840s Paris in an astounding studio production somehow conjured up during the wartime Occupation austerity of World War Two. This meant building what was then […]

Jun, 05

All About My Mother [Todo sobre mi madre] ***** (1999, Cecilia Roth, Marisa Paredes, Antonia San Juan, Penélope Cruz, Candela Peña) – Classic Movie Review 3582

Spanish writer-director Pedro Almodóvar‘s 13th feature film is this triumphant Oscar-winning 1999 drama starring Cecilia Roth, Marisa Paredes, Antonia San Juan, Penélope Cruz and Candela Peña. The film is dedicated ‘To all actresses who have played actresses. To all women who […]

Apr, 17

Shampoo ** (1975, Warren Beatty, Julie Christie, Goldie Hawn, Lee Grant, Jack Warden, George Furth, Tony Bill) – Classic Movie Review 3547

Director Hal Ashby proves out of his depth with farce in this 1975 comedy but still great with actors and lots of good performances lift the smug, self-congratulatory and smutty screenplay. Naturally, of course, Warren […]

Apr, 09

Guilty by Suspicion *** (1991, Robert De Niro, Annette Bening, Patricia Wettig, George Wendt, Sam Wanamaker, Barry Primus) – Classic Movie Review 3373

Writer-director Irwin Winkler’s 1991 drama is an interesting and sincere but mild drama of the Hollywood blacklist intrigues. It is an intelligently written reminder of some uncomfortable facts of Hollywood’s – and America’s – past, […]

Feb, 17

Imitation of Life **** (1959, Lana Turner, Juanita Moore, John Gavin, Sandra Dee, Susan Kohner, Dan O’Herlihy, Robert Alda, Mahalia Jackson, Troy Donahue, Jack Weston) – Classic Movie Review 3249

Lana Turner stars in one of her most famous roles as struggling young white actress Lora Meredith and Juanita Moore plays her black maid Annie Johnson. Director Douglas Sirk’s classic 1959 tearjerker melodrama is a […]

Jan, 08

Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? **** (1957, Jayne Mansfield, Tony Randall, Betsy Drake, Joan Blondell, John Williams, Henry Jones, Mickey Hargitay, Groucho Marx) – Classic Film Review 3248

Writer-producer-director Frank Tashlin follows up his 1956 success The Girl Can’t Help It that made a movie star of Jayne Mansfield by making a film of her concurrent stage success Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? in 1957 with Mansfield and […]

Jan, 08

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