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The Great Garrick **** (1937, Brian Aherne, Olivia de Havilland, Edward Everett Horton, Lionel Atwill, Melville Cooper) – Classic Movie Review 5662
Director James Whale’s polished 1937 comedy is a joyful celebration of the theatre and actors, and brings on the stylish and amusing high jinks among the acting fraternity as the Paris Comédie Française players try […]
Le Chat [The Cat] **** (1971, Jean Gabin, Simone Signoret, Annie Cordy, Jacques Rispal, Nicole Desailly) – Classic Movie Review 5552
Co-writer/ director Pierre Granier-Deferre’s compelling and disturbing 1971 film adaptation of a novel by Georges Simenon about a late middle-aged Parisian couple’s troubled, angst-ridden domestic life, which is characterised by a shared disgust and the […]
Lilac Time [Love Never Dies] **** (1928, Colleen Moore, Gary Cooper, Eugenie Besserer) – Classic Movie Review 5487
Director George Fitzmaurice’s sweet, simple and strong 1928 romantic drama is a silent movie with a musical score and sound effects, featuring the song Jeannine, I Dream of Lilac Time, and has attractive performances from […]
Jean de Florette ***** (1986, Yves Montand, Gérard Depardieu, Daniel Auteuil, Elisabeth Depardieu) – Classic Movie Review 5284
Director Claude Berri’s magnificent first episode of his 1986 two-part film of the book by Marcel Pagnol tells an epic tale of greed in the French Provençal countryside. It is a French modern classic movie, […]
Le Mans *** (1971, Steve McQueen, Siegfried Rauch, Elga Andersen) – Classic Movie Review 5282
Directors Lee H Katzin and John Sturges’s 1971 documentary-style sports action adventure drama allows Steve McQueen to bring his car-racing hobby to the screen in a fictional star role as Michael Delaney, a sullen American […]
Cornered **** (1945, Dick Powell, Micheline Cheirel, Walter Slezak) – Classic Movie Review 5252
Director Edward Dmytryk’s edgy, gripping 1945 RKO film noir thriller finds an ideal star in Dick Powell, who plays a former Canadian airman called Laurence Gerard, who returns to France and then goes to Buenos […]
Wild Reeds [Les Roseaux Sauvages] **** (1994, Gaël Morel, Élodie Bouchez, Stéphane Rideau, Frédéric Gorny) – Classic Movie Review 5105
Director André Techiné’s beautifully handled, poignant and delicate semi-autobiographical 1994 film tells the complex and emotionally satisfying story about teens coming of age in Sixties France at the time of the Algerian War. The film stars Frédéric Gorny, […]