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Staircase ½ (1969, Richard Burton, Rex Harrison) – Classic Movie Review 2972

Producer-director Stanley Donen’s shameful 1969 effort is a ghastly, dated and embarrassing film version of Charles Dyer’s 1966 two-hander stage play. Two of the acting profession’s most celebrated heterosexual movie stars, Richard Burton and Rex […]

Oct, 10

Ludwig **** (1972, Helmut Berger, Romy Schneider, Trevor Howard, Silvana Mangano, Helmut Griem, Gert Frobe, John Moulder-Brown) – Classic Movie Review 2234

Luchino Visconti’s masterly 1972 romantic historical film Ludwig is a gorgeous, extravagant, stirring toast to the mad 19th-century Bavarian king Ludwig II and to the handsome and magnetic star Helmut Berger. Co-writer/director Luchino Visconti’s masterly […]

Mar, 04

Another Country **** (1984, Rupert Everett, Colin Firth, Michael Jenn, Robert Addie, Anna Massey, Rupert Wainwright, Betsy Brantley, Cary Elwes) – Classic Movie Review 2.148

Playwright/ screenwriter Julian Mitchell’s extremely fine, provocative, award-winning 1981 London West End theatre hit gay stage play Another Country happily is filmed retaining its exciting young stars Rupert Everett and Colin Firth from the London run. […]

Feb, 02

Wilde **** (1997, Stephen Fry, Jude Law, Vanessa Redgrave, Tom Wilkinson) – Classic Movie Review 1586

Director Brian Gilbert’s 1997 biopic is another attempt to tell the Oscar Wilde story, but with the candour available to 90s film-makers, unlike the 60s makers of The Trials of Oscar Wilde (with Peter Finch) and […]

Aug, 24

Far from Heaven ***** (2002, Julianne Moore, Dennis Quaid, Dennis Haysbert) – Classic Movie Review 1532

Writer-director Todd Haynes’s 2002 masterwork drama profitably reunites him with the star of his 1995 movie Safe, Julianne Moore. She plays Cathy, a Fifties New England housewife who finds that her perfect husband Frank (Dennis […]

Aug, 10

Cupcakes **** (2013, Anat Waxman, Ofer Shechter) – Movie Review

Eytan Fox’s nostalgia-minded film Cupcakes is a gloriously cute, camp and charming comedy that takes a Eurovision-style song contest as its starting point and delivers lots of laughs, one or two tears, some very daft […]

Apr, 27

Victim ***** (1961, Dirk Bogarde, Sylvia Syms, Peter McEnery, Dennis Price, John Barrie) – Classic Movie Review 606

Encouragingly, Victim (1961) was popular, and made a profit. Better still, it was influential in changing attitudes and the laws in Britain regarding homosexuality. In 1961 closeted gay actor Dirk Bogarde took a huge risk […]

Jan, 01

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