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Talk Radio *** (1988, Eric Bogosian, Alec Baldwin, Ellen Greene, Leslie Hope, John C McGinley, John Pankow, Michael Wincott) – Classic Movie Review 6685

Eric Bogosian’s one-set play transfers admirably to the screen for this sinister, emotionally charged 1988 drama, thanks to co-writer/ director Oliver Stone’s compelling handling, the flashy camerawork by Robert Richardson and the high-calibre acting of […]

Feb, 14

Chinese Roulette [Chinesisches Roulette] *** (1976, Anna Karina, Margit Carstensen, Brigitte Mira, Macha Méril, Ulli Lommel, Volker Spengler) – Classic Movie Review 6202

The bleak 1976 West German psychological drama film Chinese Roulette [Chinesisches Roulette] is written and directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder. It stars actors from Fassbinder’s regular ensemble – Margit Carstensen, Brigitte Mira, Volker Spengler and Ulli Lommel –  plus (because […]

Nov, 07

The Chase ***½ (1966, Marlon Brando, Jane Fonda, Robert Redford, E G Marshall, James Fox, Angie Dickinson, Janice Rule, Robert Duvall, Miriam Hopkins) – Classic Movie Review 3929

Director Arthur Penn’s sultry and steamy 1966 Texas small-town melodrama The Chase finds both the personal passions on screen and the clutch of finest Sixties movie stars interpreting those passions all over the place. Because […]

Jun, 28

The Wind That Shakes the Barley **** (2006, Cillian Murphy, Pádraic Delaney, Liam Cunningham) – Classic Movie Review 3744

The 69-year-old Ken Loach won the 2006 Cannes Film Festival’s top honour of the Palme d’Or for his impassioned, controversial Irish historical war drama, a tale of two fictional County Cork brothers fighting for Irish independence from the United […]

May, 23

House of Strangers **** (1949, Edward G Robinson, Susan Hayward, Richard Conte, Luther Adler, Paul Valentine, Efrem Zimbalist Jr, Debra Paget) – Classic Movie Review 3399

Director Joseph L Mankiewicz’s sombre but distinguished 1949 drama is bizarrely the first of three movies written by screenwriter Philip Yordan based on the same novel, I’ll Never Go Home Again by Jerome Weidman. Winning the Best […]

Feb, 22

I Shot Andy Warhol **** (1996, Lili Taylor, Jared Harris, Martha Plimpton, Tahnee Welch, Myriam Cyr, Stephen Dorff) – Classic Movie Review 820

Co-writer/director Mary Harron tells the thoughtful and provocative true story of how the dangerously unbalanced Valerie Solanas (Lili Taylor) ingratiated herself into Andy Warhol’s weird circle of artists and intellectuals, freaks and fakes, and then, […]

Feb, 09

The Searchers ***** (1956, John Wayne, Jeffrey Hunter, Vera Miles, Natalie Wood, Ward Bond) – Classic Movie Review 349

With a fine screenplay by Frank S Nugent based on the factually based novel by Alan Le May, this 1956 all-time great John Ford movie The Searchers is simply one of the best Westerns ever. […]

Nov, 02

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