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The Legend of the Holy Drinker [La Leggenda del Santo Bevitore] **** (1988, Rutger Hauer, Anthony Quayle, Sandrine Dumas) – Classic Movie Review 6159

Rutger Hauer is on excellent acting form as the alcoholic homeless Paris tramp Andreas Kartak, who is offered 200 francs in money by a wealthy stranger as long as he promises to give it back to […]

Oct, 30

Belle de Jour ***** (1967, Catherine Deneuve, Jean Sorel, Michel Piccoli, Geneviève Page, Pierre Clémenti) – Classic Movie Review 5658

Co-writer/ director Luis Buñuel and screen-writer Jean-Claude Carrière rework the novel by Joseph Kessel and deliver one of Buñuel’s undoubted masterwork movies in this sleek and provocative 1967 drama. Catherine Deneuve is on dazzling form […]

Jun, 24

Last Year at Marienbad [L’année dernière à Marienbad] **** (1961, Delphine Seyrig, Giorgio Albertazzi, Sacha Pitoëff) – Classic Movie Review 2631

Director Alain Resnais’s infamous, impenetrable 1961 mystery movie has the coolly gorgeous and impressively enigmatic Delphine Seyrig wandering about elegantly in a huge, old-fashioned luxury hotel. Last Year at Marienbad is all way too arty and […]

Jun, 22

Jeux interdits [Forbidden Games] **** (1952, Georges Poujouly, Brigitte Fossey, Amédée) – Classic Movie Review 2356

Director René Clément’s heart-tugging war drama is the (honorary) 1953 Oscar winner for Best Foreign Language Film first released in the United States during 1952. Jeux interdits [Forbidden Games] focuses on the terrible fallout effects […]

Apr, 04

Vera Drake ***** (2004, Imelda Staunton, Phil Davis, Jim Broadbent, Eddie Marsan) – Classic Movie Review 1872

Award-winning Imelda Staunton is a revelation as Vera Drake, a cheery Fifties London cleaner, who has a secret life ‘helping young girls out’ as an abortionist. Performing an abortion is illegal in England at the […]

Nov, 23

Rashomon ***** (1950, Toshirô Mifune, Machiko Kyô, Masayuki Mori) – Classic Movie Review 134

Writer-director Akira Kurosawa’s and his country Japan’s breakthrough into world cinema is his great Oscar-winning Best Foreign Language Film (1952). It was also the winner of the 1951 Golden Lion best film award at the […]

Aug, 07

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