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Avanti! ***** (1972, Jack Lemmon, Juliet Mills, Clive Reville, Edward Andrews) – Classic Movie Review 3668

The neglected and underrated 1972 comedy film Avanti! is one of the great director Billy Wilder’s wittiest comedies, with one of Jack Lemmon’s funniest performances as a successful but stuffy Baltimore businessman Wendell Armbruster Jr, […]

May, 07

Wild at Heart **** (1990, Nicolas Cage, Laura Dern, Willem Dafoe, Diane Ladd, Harry Dean Stanton, Isabella Rossellini, Crispin Glover) – Classic Movie Review 2644

Writer-director David Lynch’s 1990 Palme d’Or best film winner at the 1990 Cannes Film Festival stars Nicolas Cage and Laura Dern as newly released convict Sailor Ripley and his girlfriend Lula Fortune. Sailor and Lula ignore […]

Jun, 27

Le Dernier Tournant [The Last Turning, The Last Bend] **** (1939, Fernand Gravey, Michel Simon, Corinne Luchaire, Marcel Vallée) – Classic Movie Review 2,451

Pierre Chenal’s riveting 1939 French thriller Le Dernier Tournant is notable as the first film of James M Cain’s sizzling novel The Postman Always Rings Twice. Fernand Gravey and Corinne Luchaire star as lovers who […]

May, 03

Love Affair ** (1994, Warren Beatty, Annette Bening, Katharine Hepburn) – Classic Movie Review 2328

Director Glen Gordon Caron’s 1994 turgid romance is a bloated and pretty disastrous attempt to re-film director Leo McCarey’s 1939 classic and his remake, An Affair to Remember. Warren Beatty stars in an ideal role […]

Mar, 29

Open Your Eyes [Abre Los Ojos] **** (1997, Eduardo Noriega, Penélope Cruz, Chete Lera) – Classic Movie Review 1818

Co-writer/director Alejandro Amenábar’s smart and polished 1997 Spanish romantic mystery drama was remade as Vanilla Sky by Cameron Crowe in 2001 with Tom Cruise and Penélope Cruz repeating the role she plays here. A rich, handsome womanising […]

Nov, 08

The Mexican ** (2001, Brad Pitt, Julia Roberts, James Gandolfini) – Classic Movie Review 1783

Director Gore Verbinski’s intriguing but all too moderate 2001 thriller stars Brad Pitt as hapless, clumsy small-time crook Jerry Welbach, who is forced by his mob boss to retrieve a priceless pistol called The Mexican back […]

Oct, 26

Crash *** (1996, James Spader, Holly Hunter, Elias Koteas) – Classic Movie Review 1748

  Writer-director David Cronenberg’s uniquely disturbing 1996 film of J G Ballard’s probably unfilmable parable novel about people into road crashes for sexual kicks caused a furore in Britain. The right-wing forces of censorship in politics […]

Oct, 06

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