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Darling **** (1965, Julie Christie, Dirk Bogarde, Laurence Harvey) – Classic Movie Review 2,270

John Schlesinger’s 1965 film Darling stars Julie Christie at her most luminous. She won the Best Actress Oscar as an ambitious, amoral English model who sleeps her way to the top of the Swinging London […]

Mar, 15

Modesty Blaise *** (1966, Monica Vitti, Terence Stamp, Dirk Bogarde) – Classic Movie Review 2267

The normally very serious-minded Joseph Losey reunites in 1966 with Dirk Bogarde, his star from The Servant and King and Country, for an engaging, kitsch, tongue-in-cheek Avengers-style Swinging Sixties comic spy spoof based on the […]

Mar, 15

The Damned [La caduta degli dei] **** (1969, Dirk Bogarde, Ingrid Thulin, Helmut Berger, Helmut Griem) – Classic Movie Review 2,232

Luchino Visconti’s rich and ambitious 1969 historical drama film The Damned [La caduta degli dei] stars Dirk Bogarde, Ingrid Thulin and Helmut Berger in his breakthrough role. Director Luchino Visconti’s rich and ambitious 1969 saga of […]

Mar, 02

Oh! What a Lovely War **** (1969, Laurence Olivier, Ralph Richardson, John Gielgud) – Classic Movie Review 1863

  For his first film as director in 1969, Richard Attenborough chooses an ambitious project – to make a movie version of producer-writer Joan Littlewood’s Sixties London Theatre Royal Stratford stage production. It won the […]

Nov, 22

Accident ***** (1967, Dirk Bogarde, Stanley Baker, Michael York, Jacqueline Sassard) – Classic Movie Review 1768

Made in 1967, Accident is a subtle masterpiece of understated film-making, and one of the important fruits of the classic four-film partnership between American director Joseph Losey and British star Dirk Bogarde. It is second […]

Oct, 14

A Bridge Too Far **** (1977, Dirk Bogarde, James Caan, Michael Caine, Sean Connery, Edward Fox, Elliott Gould, Gene Hackman, Anthony Hopkins, Hardy Krüger, Laurence Olivier, Ryan O’Neal, Robert Redford, Maximilian Schell, Liv Ullmann) – Classic Movie Review 1.398

Director Richard Attenborough’s intelligent, well-meaning and honourable 1977 epic anti-war film A Bridge Too Far is rousingly staged on a huge canvas. It grasps the nettle of tackling the tricky subject of a military disaster, […]

Jul, 06

Providence **** (1977, Dirk Bogarde, Ellen Burstyn, John Gielgud, David Warner, Elaine Stritch) – Classic Movie Review 1314

Director Alain Resnais’s lovingly crafted 1977 drama was his first English-language film. It’s a total treat for the discerning. The great and good John Gielgud steals the acting honours even from Dirk Bogarde, Ellen Burstyn, […]

Jun, 11

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