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Le Dernier Métro [The Last Metro] **** (1980, Gérard Depardieu, Catherine Deneuve, Heinz Bennent, Jean Poiret, Andrea Ferreol, Paulette Dubost, Sabine Haudepin) – Classic Movie Review 3021

Co-writer/director François Truffaut’s endearing1980 film is a fine tribute to the French theatre and the spirit of bravery and resistance. You can smell the greasepaint backstage and feel the mood of the wartime Nazi Occupation […]

Nov, 01

La femme d’à côté [The Woman Next Door] *** (1981, Gérard Depardieu, Fanny Ardant, Henri Garcin) – Classic Movie Review 3022

Writer-director François Truffaut’s 1981 romantic drama is his 20th and penultimate film, which reteams him with Gérard Depardieu from his previous movie, The Last Metro (1980). Depardieu stars as a marine engineer called Bernard Coudray, […]

Nov, 01

102 Dalmatians *** (2000, Glenn Close, Gérard Depardieu, Ioan Gruffudd) – Classic Movie Review 2225

Director Kevin Lima’s 2000 slapstick Disney live-action comedy is a quite cute and reasonably funny sequel to the 1996 hit, a remake of the 1961 classic animated feature, based on the novel by Dodie Smith. Unfortunately, […]

Feb, 28

The Secret Agent ** (1996, Bob Hoskins, Patricia Arquette, Christian Bale) – Classic Movie Review 1550

Writer-director Christopher Hampton’s 1996 new version of the 1907 Joseph Conrad classic novel is only interesting as an honourable failure and to compare it with the book and Alfred Hitchcock’s vintage version of it under […]

Aug, 16

Welcome to New York **** (2014, Gérard Depardieu, Jacqueline Bisset) – Movie Review

Gérard Depardieu gives his best performance in years as powerful French banker Mr Devereaux, who’s driven to distraction and destruction by a bizarre, unbridled, uber-frenzied sexual hunger. Bad Lieutenant auteur Abel Ferrara is also inspired […]

Aug, 07

Hamlet *** (1996, Kenneth Branagh, Kate Winslet, Julie Christie) – Classic Movie Review 1295

Writer-director-star Kenneth Branagh’s long, lively, faithful and intelligent 1996 version of the Shakespeare play is lit up with rousing performances from a lovely array of memorable actors. It’s a respectful, rewarding experience with outstanding work […]

Jun, 06

The Man in the Iron Mask *** (1998, Leonardo DiCaprio, Jeremy Irons, John Malkovich, Gabriel Byrne, Gérard Depardieu, Anne Parillaud) – Classic Movie Review 1035

Writer-director Randall Wallace (also the writer of Braveheart) directs a lusty, zesty 1998 version of the famous Alexandre Dumas novel, first filmed in 1929 by Douglas Fairbanks Sr as The Iron Mask, and again as […]

Apr, 01

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