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Shoot the Moon **** (1982, Albert Finney, Diane Keaton, Karen Allen) – Classic Movie Review 8467

Director Alan Parker’s 1982 drama Shoot the Moon stars Albert Finney, who is on powerhouse form as George Dunlap, a distinguished writer who, after 15 years of marriage, leaves his wife Faith (Diane Keaton) and […]

May, 14

Shoplifters [Manbiki kazoku] ***** (2018, Lily Franky, Sakura Andô, Mayu Matsuoka, Jyo Kairi, Miyu Sasaki) – Movie Review

Writer-director Hirokazu Koreeda’s warm and wonderful Shoplifters (2018) won the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival in 2018. It focuses on a poor Japanese family of small-time thieves, shoplifting to make ends meet, who take in […]

Jan, 04

Pather Panchali ***** (1955, Kanu Bannerjee, Karuna Bannerjee, Subir Banerjee) – Classic Movie Review 7740

Pather Panchali (1955) is Indian writer-producer-director Satyajit Ray’s first film and the start of his stunning Apu trilogy charts the growth of Apu Ray (Subir Banerjee), a small boy born in a poor Bengali village, […]

Nov, 02

Harriet Craig *** (1950, Joan Crawford, Wendell Corey, Lucile Watson) – Classic Movie Review 7,583

Joan Crawford gives quite a tour-de-force performance as the monstrous Mrs Craig in director Vincent Sherman’s 1950 drama film Harriet Craig.  Joan Crawford is the monstrous Mrs Craig in director Vincent Sherman’s 1950 drama film […]

Sep, 16

The Glass Menagerie *** (1987, Joanne Woodward, John Malkovich, Karen Allen, James Naughton) – Classic Movie Review 7565

Paul Newman expertly and sensitively directs the Tennessee Williams hothouse drama The Glass Menagerie for the big screen, showing his special affinity with the material. Newman’s wife Joanne Woodward is extremely impressive as the nagging, […]

Sep, 12

The Glass Menagerie *** (1973, Katharine Hepburn, Michael Moriarty, Sam Waterston, Joanna Miles) – Classic Movie Review 7564

Four first-class performances light up the excellent new script for television of Tennessee Williams’s play in director Anthony Harvey’s 1973 TV movie The Glass Menagerie. It won four Primetime Emmys. Katharine Hepburn is battling the […]

Sep, 12

The Glass Menagerie *** (1950, Jane Wyman, Kirk Douglas, Gertrude Lawrence, Arthur Kennedy) – Classic Movie Review 7563

Unfortunately, director Irving Rapper’s 1950 The Glass Menagerie is not an ideal version of one of Tennessee Williams’s most intriguing plays about life in St Louis, thanks to its plodding pace, uncinematic filming and the […]

Sep, 12

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