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Vanishing Point **** (1971, Barry Newman, Cleavon Little, Dean Jagger, Charlotte Rampling) – Classic Movie Review 3,239

Director Richard Sarafian’s modish 1971 car chase action thriller film Vanishing Point is still exciting and intriguing, and has now a reputation as a favourite cult hit of its era. It has pretensions of reaching […]

Jan, 16

The Great Race ***** (1965, Jack Lemmon, Tony Curtis, Natalie Wood, Peter Falk, Keenan Wynn, Arthur O’Connell) – Classic Movie Review 2737

Director Blake Edwards re-teams the brilliant Some Like It Hot stars Jack Lemmon and Tony Curtis as The Great Race’s moustachioed villain and handsome white-suited hero, who fight it out on the road from New […]

Jul, 24

Twin Town * (1997, Rhys Ifans, Llyr Evans, Dougray Scott, William Thomas) – Classic Movie Review 2723

Real-life brothers Rhys Ifans and Llyr Evans star as drug-taking, car thieving slacker twins Jeremy and Julian Lewis in co-writer/director Keith Allen’s obnoxious 1997 Welsh black comedy, set in Swansea. The twins embark on a […]

Jul, 20

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang **** (1968, Dick Van Dyke, Sally Ann Howes, Lionel Jeffries, Gert Fröbe) – Classic Movie Review 2464

Co-writer/ director Ken Hughes’s 1968 children’s movie Chitty Chitty Bang Bang stars Dick Van Dyke as Edwardian inventor Caractacus Potts and Sally Ann Howes as his fiancée Truly Scrumptious, who whizz off in their flying, […]

May, 09

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

Breathless [À bout de souffle] ***** (1960, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jean Seberg) – Classic Movie Review 1392

Director Jean-Luc Godard followed three short films with his first and still most celebrated 1960 full-length movie À bout de souffle [Breathless]. A dazzlingly realised homage to American B-movie thrillers, it was written while he was shooting […]

Jul, 04

Gerry *** (2002, Matt Damon, Casey Affleck) – Classic Movie Review 1374

There is no doubt that co-writer/director Gus Van Sant’s 2002 drama has Waiting for Godot on its mind as an inspiration and template. Two 20something blokes – both called Gerry for no particular reason – […]

Jun, 29

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