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Far North ** (1988, Jessica Lange, Charles Durning, Tess Harper, Donald Moffat, Ann Wedgeworth, Patricia Arquette) – Classic Movie Review 9184

Jessica Lange stars in the gentle 1988 family comedy-drama Far North, written and directed by her partner, Pulitzer Prize-Winning playwright Sam Shepard, about a New York career woman who returns home after her father (Charles […]

Dec, 22

The Pirates of Penzance **** (1983, Kevin Kline, Angela Lansbury, Linda Ronstadt) – Classic Movie Review 9131

Director Wilford Leach’s 1983 comedy musical The Pirates of Penzance is the welcome, ultra-cheerful, uber-energetic film version of the bright, vivacious Broadway and London revival (by producer Joseph Papp) of a souped -up version of […]

Dec, 06

Bait *** (2019, Edward Rowe, Mary Woodvine, Simon Shepherd, Giles King) – Movie Review

Writer/ director Mark Jenkin’s Bait (2019) is a bold independent experimental film focusing on a brother brother conflict and the clash between tourism and the old fishing boat values down old Cornwall way. It runs […]

Aug, 25

All the Fine Young Cannibals *** (1960, Robert Wagner, Natalie Wood, Susan Kohner, George Hamilton, Pearl Bailey) – Classic Movie Review 8801

The MGM studio advertised it as ‘There are no rules… there is no limit… IN THE LOVE-HUNGRY WORLD OF THESE YOUNG SOPHISTICATES!’ Money, partner swapping, drugs and restless youth: MGM thought that director Michael Anderson’s […]

Aug, 06

Life Is a Long Quiet River [La Vie Est Un Long Fleuve Tranquille] **** (1988, Benoît Magimel, Hélène Vincent, Valérie Lalande, Tara Römer) – Classic Movie Review 8723

Co-writer/ director Etienne Chatiliez’s 1988 first film Life Is a Long Quiet River [La Vie Est Un Long Fleuve Tranquille] is a jovial French farce in which two French families from different social classes, one […]

Jul, 17

Follow Me, Boys! *** (1966, Fred MacMurray, Vera Miles, Lillian Gish) – Classic Movie Review 8530

Director Norman Tokar’s syrupy but successful 1966 Disney confection Follow Me, Boys! stars Fred MacMurray as big-city 30s saxophonist Lemuel Siddons, who sets up home in an Illinois countryside town, falls in love with and […]

Jun, 01

All Fall Down **** (1962, Eva Marie Saint, Warren Beatty, Karl Malden, Brandon De Wilde, Angela Lansbury) – Classic Movie Review 8517

Director John Frankenheimer’s 1962 drama All Fall Down is a distinguished piece of film-making based on a novel by James Leo Herlihy, the author of Midnight Cowboy, about a young man called Clinton Willart (Brandon […]

May, 29

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