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The Last Wave ***½ (1977, Richard Chamberlain, Olivia Hamnett, David Gulpilil) – Classic Movie Review 11,185

‘The dream that became a nightmare. His was a premonition of doom. Hasn’t the weather been strange… could it be a warning?’ Director Peter Weir’s serious-minded 1977 Australian apocalyptic thriller The Last Wave is a […]

May, 09

Agnes Browne ** (1999, Anjelica Huston, Marion O’Dwyer, Niall O’Shea, Ciaran Owens, Ray Winstone, Arno Chevrier) – Classic Movie Review 10,938

Anjelica Huston directs herself in her 1999 comedy drama star vehicle Agnes Browne, with a screenplay by Brendan O’Carroll and John Goldsmith, based on the novel by John Goldsmith. Anjelica Huston must have kissed the […]

Feb, 19

Flesh and Fantasy *** (1943, Edward G Robinson, Charles Boyer, Barbara Stanwyck, Betty Field, Robert Cummings, Thomas Mitchell, Robert Benchley, Charles Winninger, Anna Lee) – Classic Movie Review 10,859

Director Julien Duvivier’s 1943 black and white Flesh and Fantasy is a fantasy anthology film of three polished tales of the macabre, linked by club chatterer Robert Benchley, who muses amusingly on the subject of […]

Jan, 31

Passion of Mind ** (2000, Demi Moore, Eloise Eonnet, Joss Ackland, William Fichtner, Sinéad Cusack, Peter Riegert, Stellan Skarsgård, Julianne Nicholson) – Classic Movie Review 10,820

Joss Ackland recalled: ”Then there was Passion of Mind in 2000 with Demi Moore. Terrible script. Awful, actually. But I needed the money.’ And he called Moore ‘alright, but not very bright or talented’. Director […]

Jan, 22

From the Life of the Marionettes [Aus dem Leben der Marionetten] *** (1980, Robert Atzorn, Christine Buchegger, Martin Benrath) – Classic Movie Review 10,404

Writer-producer-director Ingmar Bergman’s 1980 From the Life of the Marionettes [Aus Dem Leben Der Marionetten] is a late, German-made Bergman cinema and TV film about a businessman Peter Egermann (Robert Atzorn) who strangles a prostitute […]

Oct, 12

Roseland **** (1977, Teresa Wright, Lou Jacobi, Don De Natale, Christopher Walken, Joan Copeland, Lilia Skala) – Classic Movie Review 9685

Director James Ivory and producer Ismail Merchant’s 1977 three-part drama Roseland is a subtle, quiet, poignant, slow-burning charmer. The story and screenplay are by their regular writing partner Ruth Prawer Jhabvala. The tales are The […]

Apr, 28

Strictly Sinatra ** (2001, Ian Hart, Kelly Macdonald, Brian Cox, Alun Armstrong) – Classic Movie Review 9,492

Ian Hart from Liverpool manages a decent Scots accent and a nifty vocal impression of Frank Sinatra, as Toni Cocozza, a Scottish-Italian club crooner obsessed with Ol’ Blue Eyes, in writer-director Peter Capaldi’s 2001 British drama […]

Mar, 10

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