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Torch Song Trilogy **** (1988, Anne Bancroft, Matthew Broderick, Harvey Fierstein, Brian Kerwin, Karen Young) – Classic Movie Review 3377

‘It takes a lot of guts and a helluva sense of humour to live life in Arnold’s shoes.’ Tony Award-winning actor and playwright Harvey Fierstein adapts his own smash hit Broadway and London West End […]

Feb, 18

Blood for Dracula [Andy Warhol’s Dracula] *** (1974, Udo Kier, Joe Dallesandro, Maxime McKendry, Stefania Casini, Arno Juerging, Vittorio De Sica, Roman Polanski) – Classic Movie Review 3,355

Udo Kier’s dying Count Dracula must drink the blood of virgins, in Paul Morrissey’s often stylish and amusing 1974 horror movie Blood for Dracula. It also stars Joe Dallesandro as the handsome servant Mario Balato. […]

Feb, 13

Flesh for Frankenstein [Andy Warhol’s Frankenstein] *** (1973, Joe Dallesandro, Udo Kier, Monique van Vooren, Dalila Di Lazzaro, Arno Juerging, Srdjan Zelenovic) – Classic Movie Review 3354

Paul Morrissey’s 1973 3D gore horror movie extravaganza Flesh for Frankenstein is a provocative, gorgeous-looking film. Udo Kier is deliciously camp and crazy as Baron Frankenstein, who lusts over the male creature he creates.  Literally […]

Feb, 13

A Special Day [Una Giornata Particolare] **** (1977, Marcello Mastroianni, Sophia Loren) – Classic Movie Review 3,286

The 1977 Italian drama A Special Day [Una Giornata Particolare] is a special film, with Marcello Mastroianni superb as a persecuted gay radio announcer who meets a lonely mother (Sophia Loren) in Rome when Adolf […]

Jan, 20

Oedipus Rex [Edipo Re] ***** (1967, Franco Citti, Silvana Mangano, Alida Valli, Ahmed Belhachmi, Luciano Bartoli) – Classic Movie Review 3273

Writer-director Pier Paolo Pasolini’s thrilling 1967 Italian movie Oedipus Rex [Edipo Re] is Oedipus complex. The star of Pasolini’s first film, Accattone (1961), Franco Citti takes the title role of Oedipus in this beautiful filming […]

Jan, 16

Pigsty [Porcile] *** (1969, Pierre Clémenti, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Marco Ferreri, Ugo Tognazzi, Alberto Lionello, Franco Citti, Anne Wiazemsky) – Classic Movie Review 3271

Writer-director Pier Paolo Pasolini’s 1969 metaphorical drama is bleak and alienating though commendably ambitious and powerful all the same, as you’d expect from him. Pasolini scatters challenging ideas and images all over the screen but he […]

Jan, 16

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

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