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Hannibal ***** (2001, Anthony Hopkins, Julianne Moore, Gary Oldman, Giancarlo Giannini, Ray Liotta) – Classic Movie Review 135
Ray Liotta is a splendidly sweaty villain as nasty FBI boss Paul Krendler, who makes the fatal mistake of being rude to Clarice, in the 2001 horror film Hannibal. ‘It’s distress that excites him.’ Thomas […]
Tea with Mussolini **** (1999, Maggie Smith, Judi Dench, Joan Plowright, Cher, Lily Tomlin, Baird Wallace, Claudio Spadaro, Michael Williams) – Classic Movie Review 107
This splendid 1999 film is a lightly fictionalised version of Italian director Franco Zeffirelli’s true-life story, which starts in pre-World War Two Fascist Italy, when, as a boy, he is befriended by a group of redoubtable English ladies, […]
The Red Desert [Il Deserto Rosso] **** (1964, Monica Vitti, Richard Harris, Carlo Chionetti) – Classic Movie Review 73
Monica Vitti gives an extremely fine, distinguished study of a woman on the verge as a dangerously mentally disturbed Italian housewife and mother, who engages in a desperate affair with a visiting engineer (Richard Harris), the […]
The Talented Mr Ripley ****½ (1999, Matt Damon, Gwyneth Paltrow, Jude Law, Cate Blanchett, Philip Seymour Hoffman, James Rebhorn, Jack Davenport) – Classic Movie Review 41
With more subtlety, more noir, and an entirely different ending, the 1999 film The Talented Mr Ripley would be 100% brilliant. As it is, it’s still quite entrancing and mesmerising, with a dazzling cast pitch […]
Plein Soleil [Purple Noon] **** (1960, Alain Delon, Maurice Ronet, Marie Laforêt) – Classic Movie Review 173
The simmering, shimmering 1960 French crime thriller film Plein Soleil [Purple Noon] memorably stars Alain Delon as Tom Ripley, a mimic, moocher and murderer. The simmering, shimmering 1960 French crime thriller film Plein Soleil [Purple […]
Journey to Italy [Viaggio in Italia] **** (1954, Ingrid Bergman, George Sanders) – Classic Movie Review 171
Famed Italian director Roberto Rossellini’s third film with his wife Ingrid Bergman tells a richly subtle, convincing and enjoyable romantic story and paints a startling portrait of a marriage on the brink. Both Oscar-winners as […]