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The Life of Jimmy Dolan ** (1933, Douglas Fairbanks Jr, Loretta Young, Aline MacMahon, Guy Kibbee) – Classic Movie Review 8024
Director Archie Mayo’s 1933 Warner Bros black and white romantic drama The Life of Jimmy Dolan [The Kid’s Last Fight in GB] stars Douglas Fairbanks Jr, who comes out on fighting form and gives an […]
Becky Sharp **** (1935, Miriam Hopkins, Frances Dee, Cedric Hardwicke, Nigel Bruce, Alan Mowbray, William Faversham, Billie Burke, Alison Skipworth) – Classic Movie Review 6547
Director Rouben Mamoulian’s witty and delightful classic 1935 film version of William Makepeace Thackeray’s novel Vanity Fair made movie history as the first feature film to use the newly developed three-strip Technicolor throughout. It was […]
Hana-Bi [Fireworks] **** (1997, Takeshi Kitano, Kayoko Kishimoto, Ren Osugi) – Classic Movie Review 6525
After the bright young Kids Return (1996), Japanese writer-director-star Takeshi Kitano (Beat Takeshi) turns in a world-weary old man’s movie in this meditation on lives at the end of their tether. For Hana-Bi, Takeshi Kitano was […]
Les Carabiniers *** (1963, Albert Juross, Patrice Moullet, Marino Masé, Geneviève Galéa, Barbet Schroeder, Catherine Ribero) – Classic Movie Review 6067
French New Wave luminary director Jean-Luc Godard is on middling form here in this lively and provocative 1963 French drama about youngsters involved in an unnecessary civil war in an imaginary country. It is a […]
The Candidate **** (1972, Robert Redford, Peter Boyle, Melvyn Douglas, Don Porter, Allen Garfield) – Classic Movie Review 4014
Director Michael Ritchie’s insightful 1972 political drama won the 1973 Oscar for Best Original Story and Screenplay, and Writers Guild of America award for Best Drama Written Directly for the Screen, reflecting the brilliant screen-writing. Robert […]
Camp **** (2003, Don Dixon, Daniel Letterle, Joanna Chilcoat, Anna Kendrick) – Classic Movie Review 2477
Young showbiz hopefuls join a summer musical camp and put on a show, guided by alcoholic, washed-up Broadway choreographer-songwriter Bert Hanley (Don Dixon). The talented teens sing their socks off in writer-director Todd Graff’s sweet, […]
Your Friends and Neighbours *** (1998, Jason Patric, Catherine Keener, Ben Stiller, Nastassja Kinski, Aaron Eckhart, Amy Brenneman) – Classic Movie Review 1831
Writer-director Neil LaBute’s darkly satirical 1998 tale of bed hopping among some of life’s unhappy couples is extreme, cynical and quite alienating. But it is also very well acted and cleverly scripted. It’s a smart […]