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Frida *** (2002, Salma Hayek, Alfred Molina, Geoffrey Rush, Antonio Banderas, Roger Rees, Diego Luna) – Classic Movie Review 7195

Director Julie Taymor’s 2002 film Frida is a passionate, swirling and colourful biopic of doomed Mexican artist Frida Kahlo, based on the book by Hayden Herrera. It won two Oscars: Best Original Score (Elliot Goldenthal) and Best […]

Jun, 19

Van Gogh *** (1991, Jacques Dutronc, Alexandra London, Gérard Séty, Bernard Le Coq, Corinne Bourdon, Elsa Zylberstein) – Classic Movie Review 6054

A complex, deeply humane portrayal by Alexandra Dutronc brings the troubled painter Vincent Van Gogh to life in writer-director Maurice Pialat’s meticulous and supremely detailed 1992 French historical biopic that places the end of the […]

Oct, 03

Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon **** (1998, Derek Jacobi, Daniel Craig, Tilda Swinton, Karl Johnson) – Classic Movie Review 4231

Finally, Derek Jacobi atones for his dreadful performance in Dead Again by grabbing hold of the part he he he was born for by the scruff of the neck and making it perfect. Jacobi plays […]

Aug, 25

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