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Posts Tagged "Germany"

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The Serpent’s Egg ** (1977, Liv Ullmann, David Carradine, Gert Fröbe, Heinz Bennent) – Classic Movie Review 4837

The Serpent’s Egg is the 1977 unhappy product of writer-director Ingmar Bergman’s tax-induced exile in Germany from his native Sweden. Despite the copious talent involved, we have seen it done better elsewhere. Its star David […]

Jan, 03

Target for Tonight **** (1941, dir Harry Watt) – Classic Movie Review 4693

‘Actually filmed under fire! The RAF is its cast! The RAF filmed it!’ Director Harry Watt’s renowned documentary of the events leading to the carrying out of an RAF night bombing raid on Germany was […]

Nov, 24

Europa [Zentropa] *** (1991, Jean-Marc Barr, Barbara Sukowa, Udo Kier, Eddie Constantine) – Classic Movie Review 4669

Cult name director Lars von Trier’s interesting but dodgy 1991 art-movie, with some imaginative work in the pop-video-style visuals by von Trier and his three cinematographers (Henning Bendtsen, Edward Klosinski, Jean-Paul Meurisse) compensating for muddled […]

Nov, 20

Good Bye Lenin! **** (2003, Daniel Brühl, Katrin Saß, Chulpan Khamatova, Maria Simon, Florian Lukas) – Classic Movie Review 3886

An East German committed communist mother (Katrin Saß) falls into a coma just before the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. When she awakes eight months later, her son Alex (Daniel Brühl) has to […]

Jun, 18

Shadow of the Vampire **** (2000, Willem Dafoe, John Malkovich, Catherine McCormack, Udo Kier, Eddie Izaard) – Classic Movie Review 3691

Oscar and Golden Globe-nominated Willem Dafoe is brilliant in Shadow of the Vampire (2000) as Max Schreck, the weird and wonderful looking German actor who starred in the 1922 iconic vampire film Nosferatu, and was, […]

May, 09

The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse ***** (1921, Rudolph Valentino, Alice Terry, Pomeroy Cannon, Josef Swickard, Nigel De Brulier, Alan Hale Sr, Jean Hersholt, Wallace Beery) – Classic Movie Review 3,051

UK cinema chain Odeon said it is closing five cinemas on 5 June 2023: Magdalen Street, Oxford; Rigby Road, Blackpool; Weston-super-mare; Ayr; and Banbury. Built by Frank Matcham, the 1,000-seat Oxford Odeon opened with The […]

Nov, 12

The Search ***** (1948, Montgomery Clift, Ivan Jandl, Aline MacMahon, Wendell Corey, Jarmila Novotna) – Classic Movie Review 2428

Director Fred Zinnemann’s remarkable 1948 drama stars Montgomery Clift as Ralph ‘Steve’ Stevenson, a kind-hearted American army engineer who looks after a lost nine-year-old Czech boy called Karel (Ivan Jandl) in post-war Berlin. The boy was […]

Apr, 25

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