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Zazie dans le Métro ***** (1960, Catherine Demongeot, Philippe Noiret, Hubert Deschamps) – Classic Movie Review 5008

Louis Malle relishes directing one of the key films of the French New Wave about the precocious 11-year-old sophisticated girl Zazie (Catherine Demongeot) who spends a day or so in Paris, travelling the Métro with her […]

Feb, 05

Inkheart *** (2008, Brendan Fraser, Andy Serkis, Eliza Bennett, Sienna Guillory, Paul Bettany, Helen Mirren, Stephen Graham, Jamie Foreman) – Classic Movie Review 4528

Director Iain Softley’s smooth and colourful 2008 family fantasy adventure takes the idea that ‘every story ever written is just waiting to become real.’ And the cinema just the place for that! Eliza Bennett plays […]

Oct, 24

Whale Rider ***½ (2003, Keisha Castle-Hughes, Rawiri Paratene, Vicky Haughton, Cliff Curtis) – Classic Movie Review 4509

Writer-director Niko Caro’s compelling 2003 New Zealand story of Maori teenage girl Pai (Keisha Castle-Hughes)’s fight for acceptance by her tribal chief grandfather as a suitable future leader of the tribe makes for a gripping […]

Oct, 23

The Song of Bernadette **** (1943, Jennifer Jones, William Eythe, Charles Bickford, Vincent Price, Lee J Cobb, Gladys Cooper, Anne Revere) – Classic Movie Review 4508

Director Henry King’s 1943 hit stars Jennifer Jones, who took Hollywood by storm as Bernadette Soubirous, the French peasant girl who has a religious vision of the Virgin Mary at Lourdes in 1858, and discovers […]

Oct, 22

Corridor of Mirrors *** (1948, Eric Portman, Edana Romney, Barbara Mullen, Hugh Sinclair, Joan Maude, Lois Maxwell, Alan Wheatley) – Classic Movie Review 4449

The 1948 British noir mystery thriller film Corridor of Mirrors stars Eric Portman and Edana Romney in her sole starring vehicle, and is the film debut of both director Terence Young and Christopher Lee. Eric […]

Oct, 02

Au Hasard Balthazar [Balthazar] ***** (1966, Anne Wiazemsky, François Lafarge, Walter Green, Philippe Asselin, Nathalie Joyaut) – Classic Movie Review 4372

Writer-director Robert Bresson’s incredibly touching, highly personal 1966 film tells the biblical-style metaphorical tale of a mistreated donkey called Balthazar. Though austere, the film is completely approachable. While the donkey endures a life of misery […]

Sep, 17

My House in Umbria *** (2003, Maggie Smith, Ronnie Barker, Benno Fürmann, Emmy Clarke, Chris Cooper, Giancarlo Giannini, Timothy Spall, Libero De Rienzo) – Classic Movie Review 4360

Maggie Smith stars as romantic novelist Mrs Delahunty, who invites her fellow survivors of a terrorist train blast to convalesce in her Italian villa: the old British General (Ronnie Barker), the young German man Werner (Benno Fürmann) and […]

Sep, 13

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