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Avanti! ***** (1972, Jack Lemmon, Juliet Mills, Clive Reville, Edward Andrews) – Classic Movie Review 3668

The neglected and underrated 1972 comedy film Avanti! is one of the great director Billy Wilder’s wittiest comedies, with one of Jack Lemmon’s funniest performances as a successful but stuffy Baltimore businessman Wendell Armbruster Jr, […]

May, 07

A Walk in the Sun ***** (1945, Dana Andrews, Richard Conte, John Ireland, Lloyd Bridges) – Classic Movie Review 3504

The 1945 classic A Walk in the Sun about one American platoon in the 1943 invasion of Italy is another magnificent milestone war film from producer-director Lewis Milestone, the director of All Quiet on the Western Front (1930), […]

Mar, 26

Blood for Dracula [Andy Warhol’s Dracula] *** (1974, Udo Kier, Joe Dallesandro, Maxime McKendry, Stefania Casini, Arno Juerging, Vittorio De Sica, Roman Polanski) – Classic Movie Review 3,355

Udo Kier’s dying Count Dracula must drink the blood of virgins, in Paul Morrissey’s often stylish and amusing 1974 horror movie Blood for Dracula. It also stars Joe Dallesandro as the handsome servant Mario Balato. […]

Feb, 13

A Bigger Splash ***½ (2015, Ralph Fiennes, Dakota Johnson, Matthias Schoenaerts, Tilda Swinton) – Movie Review

Ralph Fiennes, Dakota Johnson, Matthias Schoenaerts and Tilda Swinton have a grand time in director Luca Guadagnino’s intriguing, tantalising mystery drama puzzle. It’s both arty and full on, with the talented starry quartet up for it, […]

Feb, 11

Il Divo **** (2008, Toni Servillo, Anna Bonaiuto, Giulio Bosetti) – Classic Movie Review 3294

Writer-director Paolo Sorrentino’s striking and informative, surreal biopic of controversial Italian politician Giulio Andreotti, showcases an uncanny, quite spooky performance by Toni Servillo as the nonogenarian ‘divine’ who was Italian prime minister seven times between […]

Jan, 26

A Special Day [Una Giornata Particolare] **** (1977, Marcello Mastroianni, Sophia Loren) – Classic Movie Review 3,286

The 1977 Italian drama A Special Day [Una Giornata Particolare] is a special film, with Marcello Mastroianni superb as a persecuted gay radio announcer who meets a lonely mother (Sophia Loren) in Rome when Adolf […]

Jan, 20

The Conformist [Il Conformista] ***** (1970, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Dominique Sanda, Stefania Sandrelli, Pierre Clémenti) – Classic Movie Review 3182

Writer-director Bernardo Bertolucci’s provocative, impressive, unsettling 1970 psychological thriller The Conformist [Il Conformista] has style to spare. It stars an ideally cast Jean-Louis Trintignant as Marcello Clerici, a weak-willed 1930s rich Italian who embraces taking a path […]

Dec, 23

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