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The Damned [La caduta degli dei] **** (1969, Dirk Bogarde, Ingrid Thulin, Helmut Berger, Helmut Griem) – Classic Movie Review 2,232

Luchino Visconti’s rich and ambitious 1969 historical drama film The Damned [La caduta degli dei] stars Dirk Bogarde, Ingrid Thulin and Helmut Berger in his breakthrough role. Director Luchino Visconti’s rich and ambitious 1969 saga of […]

Mar, 02

The Dam Busters **** (1955, Richard Todd, Michael Redgrave, Ursula Jeans) – Classic Movie Review 1857

Director Michael Anderson’s 1954 true life wartime adventure movie brings the once famous story of Barnes Wallis’s bouncing bombs that blasted open Germany’s crucial Ruhr dams in 1943 to vivid life. At the centre and heart […]

Nov, 18

A Most Wanted Man *** (2014, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Rachel McAdams, Robin Wright, Willem Dafoe, Daniel Brühl) – Movie Review

In another glum and dour adaptation of a John le Carré novel, a brutally tortured Chechen-Russian Muslim immigrant called Issa Karpov turns up illegally in Hamburg’s Islamic community, claiming his father’s ill-gotten fortune. The spy game […]

Sep, 11

Blonde Venus **** (1932, Marlene Dietrich, Cary Grant) – Classic Movie Review 1274

Svengali-style producer-director Josef von Sternberg’s 1932 vintage romance provides a famous role for his protégé Marlene Dietrich as Helen Faraday, who works as the Blonde Venus chanteuse in smooth young millionaire playboy Nick Townsend’s nightclub. […]

Jun, 01

Buffalo Soldiers **** (2001, Joaquin Phoenix, Ed Harris, Scott Glenn, Liv Tyler) – Classic Movie Review 1073

Director Gregor Jordan’s 2001 movie, based on the book by Robert O’Connor, is his biggest success so far. Joaquin Phoenix stars as a soldier who wheels and deals on the black market at a 1989 […]

Apr, 09

Walk the Line **** (2005, Joaquin Phoenix, Reese Witherspoon, Ginnifer Goodwin) – Classic Movie Review 712

Following the trail blazed by Ray (2004), director James Mangold’s entertaining, informative and involving 2005 biopic of troubled country music legend Johnny Cash boasts an ace impersonation and a great performance by Oscar-nominated Best Actor […]

Jan, 18

Jules et Jim ***** (1962, Jeanne Moreau, Oskar Werner, Henri Serre) – Classic Movie Review 290

It takes three to tango, apparently. For his brilliant third feature, filmed in 1961 and first shown in Paris in 1962, director Francois Truffaut turns to the lyrical look at love that he was to […]

Oct, 15

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