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Intermezzo *** (1936, Ingrid Bergman, Gösta Ekman, Inga Tidblad) – Classic Movie Review 6678

Co-writer/ director Gustaf Molander’s unfairly neglected Swedish original 1936 film of the classic 1939 Hollywood romance Intermezzo sees Ingrid Bergman as the gorgeous young musician Anita Hoffman falling in love with married, older concert violinist Professor Holger Brandt (Gösta […]

Feb, 11

Article 99 ** (1992, Ray Liotta, Kiefer Sutherland, Forest Whitaker, John Mahoney, Lea Thompson, John C McGinley, Eli Wallach, Kathy Bates) – Classic Movie Review 6659

Director Howard Deutch’s 1992 comedy drama is an overwrought hospital saga, swinging uncertainly and hesitantly between comic satire and soapbox preaching, but with the young Ray Liotta and Kiefer Sutherland trying hard as Dr Richard […]

Feb, 07

Joe ** (1970, Peter Boyle, Susan Sarandon, Patrick McDermott, Dennis Patrick, Audrey Caire) – Classic Movie Review 6162

Peter Boyle gives a remarkable performance of repellent power as Joe Curran, in director John G Avildsen’s revolting, nasty-toned 1970 right-wing tract that was a huge hit against the apparent peace-and-love mood of the times […]

Oct, 30

Umberto D ***** (1952, Carlo Battisti, Maria-Pia Casilio, Lina Gennari, Ileana Simova, Elena Rea) – Classic Movie Review 6150

Co-writer/ director Vittorio De Sica’s classic 1952 humanist, neo-realist drama movie is commandingly shot on location in Rome by the Italian maestro in his prime, though also in the studio at Rome’s Cinecittà Studios. Based on […]

Oct, 28

The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest [Luftslottet som sprängdes] *** (2009, Noomi Rapace, Michael Nyqvist, Lena Endre ) – Classic Movie Review 6099

The final part of the Swedish-language thriller trilogy based on Stieg Larsson’s novels about the disgraced financial campaigning journalist Mikael Blomkvist (Michael Nyqvist) and the troubled, tattooed young computer hacker Lisbeth Salander (Noomi Rapace) picks up immediately […]

Oct, 17

A Woman’s Secret *** (1949, Maureen O’Hara, Melvyn Douglas, Gloria Grahame, Victor Jory, Bill Williams) – Classic Movie Review 6,076

Director Nicholas Ray’s intriguing and unusual 1949 film noir-style mystery melodrama A Woman’s Secret, with hints of Mildred Pierce and All About Eve, is based on a 1946 novel called Mortgage on Life by Vicki […]

Oct, 11

The Mouth Agape [La Gueule Ouverte] **** (1974, Monique Mélinand, Hubert Deschamps, Philippe Léotard, Nathalie Baye) – Classic Movie Review 6052

Director Maurice Pialat’s 1974 French drama film The Mouth Agape [La Gueule Ouverte] is a realist depiction of a woman undergoing the late stages of a terminal illness, going through several deeply emotional moments. Monique Mélinand plays […]

Sep, 30

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