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Posts Tagged "epilepsy"

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Night Unto Night ** (1949, Ronald Reagan, Viveca Lindfors, Broderick Crawford) – Classic Movie Review 7981

Director Don Siegel’s intriguing and offbeat but rather ploddingly handled 1949 Warner Bros black and white romantic drama Night unto Night stars Ronald Reagan, Viveca Lindfors, Rosemary DeCamp and Broderick Crawford. Lindfors and Reagan play […]

Jan, 05

The Rite [Riten] **** (1969, Ingrid Thulin, Anders Ek, Gunnar Björnstrand) – Classic Movie Review 5656

Writer-director Ingmar Bergman’s insightful 1969 Swedish film is a provocative, complex, and highly personal piece of work that focuses on a famous acting troupe charged with obscenity after one of their performances. It was made for […]

Jun, 24

Fists in the Pocket [I Pugni in Tasca] **** (1965, Lou Castel, Paola Pitagora, Liliana Gerace, Marino Masé) – Classic Movie Review 4457

In a small provincial Italian town, a blind widow (Liliana Gerace) lives with her four children, a sister and three brothers, three of whom are bound by their epilepsy, putting the family under constant tension […]

Oct, 05

Mean Streets ***** (1973, Robert De Niro, Harvey Keitel, David Proval, Richard Romanus) – Classic Movie Review 2473

Mean Streets is renowned as the independently made movie that announced Martin Scorsese’s arrival as a world-class film director in 1973. The first film collaboration between Scorsese and star Robert De Niro, it is a key Seventies […]

May, 11

Electricity ***½ (2014, Agyness Deyn, Lenora Crichlow, Christian Cooke) – Movie Review

Supermodel-turned-actress Agyness Deyn stars as Lily O’Connor, a young woman haunted since early childhood by epilepsy that brings her extraordinary hallucinations, who heads to London to search for her long-lost brother (Christian Cooke). Experiencing fits, suddenly and […]

Dec, 11

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