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Quatre nuits d’un rêveur [Four Nights of a Dreamer] **** (1971, Isabelle Weingarten, Guillaume des Forêts, Jean-Maurice Monnoyer) – Classic Movie Review 10,917

Marthe: ‘What’s the matter?’ Jacques: ‘I love you. That’s the matter.’ Writer-director Robert Bresson’s beautiful, miniaturist 1971 French Eastmancolor drama film Quatre nuits d’un rêveur [Four Nights of a Dreamer] is loosely based on the […]

Feb, 15

Gertrud **** (1964, Nina Pens Rode, Bendt Rothe, Baard Owe, Ebbe Rode) – Classic Movie Review 10,813

Gertrud: ‘The man I’m with must be completely mine. I must come before everything. I don’t want to be an occasional plaything.’ Writer-director Carl Theodor Dreyer’s 1964 Danish black and white classic film Gertrud is […]

Jan, 21

Falling Down ** (1993, Michael Douglas, Robert Duvall, Barbara Hershey) – Classic Movie Review 10,652

Director Joel Schumacher’s 1993 Falling Down is an extremely worrying thriller using a sensitive issue for entertainment. But Michael Douglas reckons he gives his best-ever performance as the burnt-out All-American everyman, a middle-aged Los Angeles […]

Dec, 11

The Belly of an Architect **** (1987, Brian Dennehy, Chloe Webb, Lambert Wilson) – Classic Movie Review 10,643

A fictional Chicago architect called Stourley Kracklite (Brian Dennehy), working on a project in Rome, Italy, an exhibition in tribute to visionary real-life French neoclassical architect Etienne-Louis Boullée (1728-99), discovers that everything is crumbling around him. Stourley […]

Dec, 10

Détective *** (1985, Claude Brasseur, Nathalie Baye, Johnny Hallyday, Laurent Terzieff, Aurelle Doazan, Jean-Pierre Léaud) – Classic Movie Review 9510

Jean-Luc Godard’s jokey, peculiar 1985 French thriller Détective about four groups of people meeting in a Paris grand hotel, where a murder was committed two years before, is, as expected, provocative, progressive and experimental. Godard […]

Mar, 15

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