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White Mischief **** (1987, Charles Dance, Greta Scacchi, Joss Ackland, John Hurt) – Classic Movie Review 6,406
Joss Ackland CBE (29 February 1928 – 19 November 2023) appeared in more than 130 films and TV shows. He was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role for the 1987 film White […]
The Angelic Conversation ***½ (1985, Paul Reynolds, Phillip Williamson, voice of Judi Dench) – Classic Movie Review 6398
Derek Jarman’s haunting 1985 experimental film is his interpretation of 14 William Shakespeare sonnets, eloquently read by Judi Dench, as the images show a young man seeking the man of his heart’s desire. Jarman chooses […]
The Terence Davies Trilogy **** (1983, Phillip Mawdsley, Nick Stringer, Valerie Lilley, Terry O’Sullivan, Sheila Raynor, Wilfrid Brambell) – Classic Movie Review 5156
Writer-director Terence Davies’s outstanding first film is an impressive achievement in bleak memoir, cohering satisfyingly, though made up from three autobiographical short films made over a period of six years or so. The anthology film […]
The Long Day Closes **** (1992, Leigh McCormack, Marjorie Yates, Anthony Watson) – Classic Movie Review 5.154
Writer-director Terence Davies’s lovely 1992 British labour of love film The Long Day Closes is his first since his 1988 Distant Voices, Still Lives, and is the third film in his entrancing autobiographical trilogy. Leigh […]
The Commitments *** (1991, Robert Arkins, Michael Aherne, Angeline Ball, Maria Doyle, Dave Finnegan, Bronagh Gallagher) – Classic Movie Review 5047
Director Alan Parker assembles a likeable cast of youngish people searching after that elusive fame in his hit 1991 musical drama about the rise and fall of a Dublin soul band called The Commitments. It […]
Britannia Hospital *** (1982, Leonard Rossiter, Graham Crowden, Malcolm McDowell, Arthur Lowe, Joan Plowright, Peter Jeffrey, Alan Bates) – Classic Movie Review 5040
The 1982 box-office flop satirical black comedy Britannia Hospital about a beleaguered, crumbling British hospital beset with strikes, demos, a mad doctor, a cannibalistic dictator and a visit by Her Royal Highness the Queen Mother […]
Blue **** (1993, voices of Derek Jarman, Tilda Swinton, John Quentin, Nigel Terry) – Classic Movie Review 5022
Writer-director Derek Jarman’s 1993 twelfth and final feature film is a complex meditation on the nature of AIDS with a soundtrack but no visuals. The featureless saturated blue screen serves as an ambient backdrop to […]