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Woman of Rome *** (1954, Gina Lollobrigida, Daniel Gélin, Franco Fabrizi) – Classic Movie Review 11,077

‘Love was her profession… men were her career! ‘ Director Luigi Zampa’s classy 1954 black and white Italian romantic drama film Woman of Rome [La romana] stars Gina Lollobrigida in her glorious prime as the […]

Apr, 07

Confidential Agent ** (1945, Charles Boyer, Lauren Bacall, Katina Paxinou, Peter Lorre, Victor Francen, George Coulouris, Wanda Hendrix, George Zucco, Miles Mander) – Classic Movie Review 6,308

Warner Bros’ 1945 American spy film Confidential Agent stars Charles Boyer and Lauren Bacall, and is based on the novel by Graham Greene, who strongly defended both the film and Bacall against widespread attack. Director Herman Shumlin’s […]

Nov, 25

Land and Freedom **** (1995, Ian Hart, Rosana Pastor, Icíar Bollaín) – Classic Movie Review 6154

Director Ken Loach’s British 1995 Spanish Civil War wartime drama stars Ian Hart as David Carr, an unemployed Liverpool communist-supporter who leaves to join the anti-Fascist fight in Spain in the spring of 1936. He […]

Oct, 30

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

The Conformist [Il Conformista] ***** (1970, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Dominique Sanda, Stefania Sandrelli, Pierre Clémenti) – Classic Movie Review 3182

Writer-director Bernardo Bertolucci’s provocative, impressive, unsettling 1970 psychological thriller The Conformist [Il Conformista] has style to spare. It stars an ideally cast Jean-Louis Trintignant as Marcello Clerici, a weak-willed 1930s rich Italian who embraces taking a path […]

Dec, 23

Equilibrium *** (2002, Christian Bale, Sean Bean, Emily Watson, Taye Diggs) – Classic Movie Review 1554

Writer-director Kurt Wimmer’s intriguing futuristic 2002 thriller is set in a fascist future, where the state has suppressed human emotions by banning books, art and music and punishing feelings by death. Christian Bale stars as cleric John […]

Aug, 16

V for Vendetta **** (2005, Hugo Weaving, Natalie Portman, Rupert Graves, John Hurt, Tim Pigott-Smith, Stephen Rea, Stephen Fry) – Classic Movie Review 254

‘A revolution without dancing is a revolution not worth having!’ Hugo Weaving gets star billing in V for Vendetta (2005), hidden behind his disguise as a Guy Fawkes-style masked avenger called ‘V’. Escaping from prison […]

Sep, 21

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