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An Angel at My Table **** (1990, Kerry Fox, Alexia Keogh, Karen Fergusson) – Classic Movie Review 6388

Director Jane Campion’s extravagantly praised 1990 New Zealand film production is based on the autobiography of Janet Frame, in which the awkward, agonised, curly red-headed heroine struggles through mental hospital, school and college to liberation […]

Dec, 11

The Piano **** (1993, Holly Hunter, Harvey Keitel, Sam Neill, Anna Paquin, Kerry Walker) – Classic Movie Review 6387

Director Jane Campion’s triumphant 1993 romantic drama is probably her best, most famous, most successful movie. On a $7 million cost, it earned $40 million in the US alone. It won three Oscars, for Best Actress […]

Dec, 10

The Assam Garden **** (1985, Deborah Kerr, Madhur Jaffrey, Alex McCowen, Zia Mohyeddin, Iain Cuthbertson Anton Lesser, Ronald Russell) – Classic Movie Review 6164

Director Mary McMurray’s tender and poignant 1985 drama brings back Deborah Kerr to the cinema after a 16-year layoff (since The Arrangement in 1969) as Englishwoman Helen, an ex-Raj widow who returns to England and the […]

Oct, 31

Steaming *** (1985, Vanessa Redgrave, Sarah Miles, Diana Dors, Patti Love, Brenda Bruce, Felicity Dean) – Classic Movie Review 5847

The British women’s steam room drama Steaming from 1985 is a sad occasion as it marks the final movie of both director Joseph Losey and star Diana Dors. Indeed it is advertised as ‘The final […]

Aug, 03

Viceroy’s House ** (2017, Hugh Bonneville, Gillian Anderson, Michael Gambon, Manish Dayal, Huma Qureshi, Om Puri, Lily Travers, Simon Callow, Simon Williams) – Movie Review

Hugh Bonneville stars as Lord Louis Mountbatten, who is appointed final Viceroy of India, with the job of overseeing the transition of British India to independence in 1947. Director Gurinder Chadha means well but has bitten off […]

Mar, 05

Triumph of the Will [Triumph des Willens] ***** (1935, Adolf Hitler, Hermann Göring, Martin Bormann, Joseph Goebbels, Rudolf Hess, Heinrich Himmler, Reinhard Heydrich) – Classic Movie Review 4476

‘Heil! Heil! Heil!’ Producer-writer-director Leni Riefenstahl’s legendary infamous 1935 Nazi film of the Third Reich’s 1934 Nazi Party Rally in Nuremberg, Germany, Triumph of the Will [Triumph des Willens], is astonishing as documentary and frightening […]

Oct, 16

In this Our Life *** (1942, Bette Davis, Olivia de Havilland, George Brent, Charles Coburn, Frank Craven, Dennis Morgan) – Classic Movie Review 2,742

John Huston’s 1942 drama film In this Our Life stars Bette Davis, who is on the rampage again as an unscrupulous and devilish minx called Stanley Timberlake, who keeps stealing her sister’s men. Director John […]

Jul, 25

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