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The River **** (1951, Esmond Knight, Nora Swinburne, Adrienne Corri, Patricia Walters, Thomas E Breen) – Classic Movie Review 3245

French master director Jean Renoir turns Rumer Godden’s romantic auto-biographical novel about an English family on the banks of the Ganges into this beautifully filmed (on location in Bengal in India), rich and compelling 1951 drama. The […]

Jan, 06

Easy Virtue **** (2008, Jessica Biel, Ben Barnes, Colin Firth, Kristin Scott Thomas, Kris Marshall) – Classic Movie Review 3034

Co-writer/director Stephan Elliott’s delightful and highly amusing 2008 adaptation of gay playwright Noël Coward’s witty early play stars Ben Barnes and Colin Firth, who were reunited in 2009’s Dorian Gray. This time, they are father […]

Nov, 06

Le Mépris [Contempt] **** (1963, Brigitte Bardot, Jack Palance, Michel Piccoli, Fritz Lang, Giorgia Moll) – Classic Movie Review 3011

‘Bardot at her bold, bare and brazen best!’ Jean-Luc Godard’s 1963 French New Wave meditation on cinema Le Mépris [Contempt] features France’s number one sex symbol Brigitte Bardot in provocative poses. ‘Bardot at her bold, […]

Oct, 28

An American Werewolf in Paris ** (1997, Tom Everett Scott, Julie Delpy) – Classic Movie Review 2519

Co-writer/co-producer/director Anthony Waller’s long-awaited 1997 follow-up to John Landis’s1981 An American Werewolf in London proves a bit of a damp squib. Tom Everett Scott stars as young American Andy who is over in Paris, where […]

May, 25

An American Werewolf in London ***** (1981, David Naughton, Jenny Agutter, Griffin Dunne) – Classic Movie Review 2518

Writer-director John Landis dazzlingly mixes full-out humour with full-on horror for this brilliant Oscar-winning 1981 classic tale of two naive young American college student tourists (David Naughton and Griffin Dunne) back-pack hiking in northern England […]

May, 25

An American in Paris ***** (1951, Gene Kelly, Leslie Caron, Oscar Levant, Nina Foch, Georges Guétary) – Classic Movie Review 2515

Director Vincente Minnelli’s 1951 dance movie An American in Paris was a triumph for him and Gene Kelly, as well as Leslie Caron. Half a dozen Oscars, including Best Picture, poured down on this breath-taking MGM musical, […]

May, 24

I Was a Male War Bride ***** (1949, Cary Grant, Ann Sheridan) – Classic Movie Review 2343

Director Howard Hawks’s zany 1949 screwball comedy is delightfully hilarious, sharply written and incisively made, and a triumph for its star, Cary Grant. Always game for a laugh, he appeared in drag more time than […]

Apr, 01

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