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Love and Death on Long Island **** (1997, John Hurt, Jason Priestley, Sheila Hancock, Maury Chaykin, Fiona Loewi, Harvey Atkin, Gawn Grainger) – Classic Movie Review 4958

John Hurt revealed that his personal favourites of his own films were Love and Death on Long Island (1997), in which he plays an ageing author obsessed with a young actor, and The Field (1990), […]

Jan, 28

The Naked Civil Servant ****½ (1975, John Hurt, Patricia Hodge, Katherine Schofield, Stanley Lebor, Quentin Crisp) – Classic Movie Review 4952

‘Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level. It’s cheaper.’ Director Jack Gold’s glittering, crisply entertaining 1975 TV movie is a triumph, with a dazzling performance by John Hurt as real-life […]

Jan, 28

Django Kill… If You Live, Shoot! [Se sei vivo spara] *** (1967, Tomas Milian, Marilù Tolo, Piero Lulli) – Classic Movie Review 4937

Giulio Questi’s 1967 Spaghetti Western Django Kill… If You Live, Shoot! [Se sei vivo spara] is the unconnected follow-up to the original 1966 Django and stars Tomas Milian, Marilù Tolo, Piero Lulli, Roberto Camardiel, and Ray Lovelock in […]

Jan, 25

May We Borrow Your Husband? **½ (1986, Dirk Bogarde, Charlotte Attenborough, Francis Matthews, David Yelland, Simon Shepherd, Claude Coppola) – Classic Movie Review 4871

Director Bob Mahoney 1986 British TV movie for Yorkshire TV stars Dirk Bogarde as divorced William Harris in his own adaptation of Graham Greene’s story. He is staying in France in a Nice hotel, where […]

Jan, 10

Taking Woodstock **** (2009, Demetri Martin, Liev Schreiber, Eugene Levy, Emile Hirsch, Paul Dano, Imelda Staunton, Henry Goodman, Kelli Garner) – Classic Movie Review 4635

It’s the summer of love in 1969. Elliot Teichberg – aka the original source book author Elliot Tiber – is a struggling young gay interior designer working at his parents’ rundown motel in up-state New […]

Nov, 11

Shortbus ***½ (2006, Sook-Yin Lee, Peter Stickles, PJ DeBoy, Paul Dawson, Lindsay Beamish, Jay Brannan, Raphael Barker, Alan Mandell, Adam Hardman, Ray Rivas, Justin Hagan) – Classic Movie Review 4604

Writer-director John Cameron Mitchell’s highly provocative, extremely controversial 2006 American erotic comedy-drama film teaches a lesson of acceptance as it centres on a sexually diverse group of colorful characters trying to connect in New York City. The […]

Nov, 07

Bedrooms and Hallways *** (1998, Kevin McKidd, James Purefoy, Jennifer Ehle, Julie Graham, Simon Callow, Harriet Walter) – Classic Movie Review 4388

A gay man called Leo (Kevin McKidd) joins group help sessions, and confesses his feelings for another man (James Purefoy). They enjoy a thing, but then Purefoy’s school old flame (Jennifer Ehle) turns up. Director […]

Sep, 21

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