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Lift to the Scaffold [Ascenseur pour l’échafaud] ***** (1958, Jeanne Moreau, Maurice Ronet, Georges Poujouly, Lino Ventura) – Classic Movie Review 544
Director Louis Malle’s 1958 debut feature Ascenseur pour l’échafaud [Lift to the Scaffold] [Elevator to the Gallows] is a brilliant, haunting and complex film noir thriller. It made an international star of the 30-year-old Jeanne […]
Wings ***** (1927, Charles ‘Buddy’ Rogers, Richard Arlen, Clara Bow, Jobyna Ralston, Gary Cooper) – Classic Movie Review 501
The first ever Best Picture Oscar winner (and only silent film to win) is still immensely stirring for its thrilling, atmospheric flying scenes, breathtaking dogfights and realistic sequences of trench warfare, filmed for real without […]
Love Actually *** (2003, Hugh Grant, Martine McCutcheon, Liam Neeson, Keira Knightley, Laura Linney, Rowan Atkinson, Colin Firth, Alan Rickman, Emma Thompson, Bill Nighy) – Classic Movie Review 369
The British Prime Minister romancing his Downing Street tea lady? Yes actually! Clever writer-director Richard Curtis (Four Weddings) looks – with great affection and optimism – at the state of love in Britain in 2003, […]
Dangerous Liaisons ***** (1988, Glenn Close, John Malkovich, Uma Thurman, Michelle Pfeiffer, Swoosie Kurtz, Mildred Natwick, Keanu Reeves, Peter Capaldi) – Classic Movie Review 307
Director Stephen Frears’s dazzling 1988 movie of Christopher Hampton’s award-winning London and Broadway hit stage play Les Liaisons Dangereuses is scaldingly exciting. You can just feel the sexual heat radiating from it. Based on the […]
Henry V ***** (1944, Laurence Olivier, Renée Asherson, Robert Newton, Leslie Banks, Esmond Knight, Leo Genn, Felix Aylmer, George Cole) – Classic Movie Review 138
Laurence Olivier’s inspired and stirring version of the popular historical play by William Shakespeare is a personal triumph for him, a highlight of his life and career. It’s the definitive and classic movie of the […]
The Lavender Hill Mob ***** (1951, Alec Guinness, Stanley Holloway, Sidney James, Alfie Bass) – Classic Movie Review 121
The marvellous, splendidly quirky, constantly amusing 1951 Ealing Studios classic comedy caper The Lavender Hill Mob is the only one of their famous comedies ever to win an Oscar. This marvellous, splendidly quirky, constantly amusing […]