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The Canterbury Tales [I Racconti di Canterbury] **** (1972, Ninetto Davoli, Franco Citti, Laura Betti, Hugh Griffith, Tom Baker, Jenny Runacre, Michael Balfour) – Classic Movie Review 3200)

For his 1972 third Trilogy of Life movie, The Canterbury Tales [I Racconti di Canterbury], Italian writer-director Pier Paolo Pasolini freely tackles the literary masterpiece of Geoffrey Chaucer and makes the revered English material his […]

Dec, 30

Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom *** (1975, Paolo Bonacelli, Giorgio Cataldi, Umberto Paolo Quintavalle, Franco Merli, Sergio Fascetti) – Classic Movie Review 3199

Director Pier Paolo Pasolini’s infamous, highly controversial, problematic final film, based on the Marquis de Sade’s novel The 120 Days of Sodom, was made shortly before his murder on 2 November 1975, aged 53, and released […]

Dec, 30

Journey’s End **** (1930, Colin Clive, Ian Maclaren, David Manners) – Classic Movie Review 3043

Journey’s End (1930) was a huge success and launched the film careers of James Whale and Colin Clive, who stayed on in America to make Frankenstein (1931) together. Debut film director James Whale’s 1930 early […]

Nov, 08

Cupcakes **** (2013, Anat Waxman, Ofer Shechter) – Movie Review

Eytan Fox’s nostalgia-minded film Cupcakes is a gloriously cute, camp and charming comedy that takes a Eurovision-style song contest as its starting point and delivers lots of laughs, one or two tears, some very daft […]

Apr, 27

The East **** (2013, Brit Marling, Patricia Clarkson, Ellen Page, Alexander Skarsgård, Julia Ormond, Jason Ritter, Toby Kebbell) – Movie Review

Rare and unusual, Zal Batmanglij’s 2013 film The East is a particularly engrossing, suspenseful and intelligent corporate espionage thriller. Brit Marling plays Sarah, a morally troubled agent for a private intelligence company who send her to infiltrate […]

Apr, 27

Bad Education [La Mala Educación] **** (2004, Gael García Bernal, Fele Martínez, Javier Cámara) – Classic Movie Review 826

With La Mala Educación in 2004, Spanish writer-director Pedro Almodóvar returns to the style and content of the films that made him famous in the Eighties with this provocative and sizzlingly stylish look at male […]

Feb, 13

Talk to Her [Hable Con Ella] **** (2002, Rosario Flores, Javier Cámara, Darío Grandinetti, Leonor Watling, Geraldine Chaplin, Paz Vega) – Classic Movie Review 826

Spanish writer-director Pedro Almodóvar’s 2002 film Talk to Her [Hable Con Ella] is one of his very best and cleverest movies. It won him the Best Original Screenplay Oscar and Best Foreign Language Film at […]

Feb, 13

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