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Othello [Отелло] **** (1956, Sergei Bondarchuk, Irina Skobtseva, Andrei Popov) – Classic Movie Review 3342

Director Sergei Yutkevich’s imaginatively filmed, handsome looking, intellectually minded 1956 Russian version of the play by William Shakespeare is the first in colour and stars the great Sergei Bondarchuk, who goes the route of playing […]

Feb, 08

Variety Lights [Luci del varietà] *** (1950, Peppino De Filippo, Carla Del Poggio, Giulietta Masina) – Classic Movie Review 2656

Federico Fellini makes his directorial début as joint writer-producer-director with Alberto Lattuada in this bitter-sweet 1950 romantic drama about a company of third-rate music-hall theatrical performers on tour.  The story spotlights the adventures of the actors, […]

Jun, 28

Othello **** (1952, Orson Welles, Micheál MacLiammóir, Suzanne Cloutier, Robert Coote, Fay Compton) – Classic Movie Review 2448

Orson Welles gives a noble, layered, tempered performance of great majesty and power as Othello, The Moor of Venice, in his lovingly made film of the William Shakespeare play which won the joint Palme D’Or […]

May, 02

L’Enfer [Hell] **** (1994, Emmanuelle Béart, François Cluzet, Nathalie Cardone, Jean-Pierre Cassel) – Classic Movie Review 2360

Director Claude Chabrol tries to make belated amends for the way the French New Wave he was part of attacked the work of Henri-Georges Clouzot, the director of Wages of Fear and Les Diaboliques, by […]

Apr, 05

Lolita *** (1997, Jeremy Irons, Dominique Swain, Melanie Griffith, Frank Langella) – Classic Movie Review 2235

Director Adrian Lyne remakes Stanley Kubrick’s ground-breaking 1962 film of Vladimir Nabokov’s famous controversial tale of an older man’s obsession for an adolescent girl in 1997. Jeremy Irons is perfectly cast and at his very best as […]

Mar, 04

The Reckless Moment ****½ (1949, James Mason, Joan Bennett, Geraldine Brooks) – Classic Movie Review 2143

Director Max Ophüls‘s uber-tense and super-stylish 1949 film noir suspense thriller is set in Balboa 50 miles from Los Angeles. It stars Joan Bennett as Lucia Harper, an American middle-class mother becomes increasingly deranged after she discovers […]

Feb, 01

Trouble in Paradise ***** (1932, Miriam Hopkins, Kay Francis, Herbert Marshall) – Classic Movie Review 1989

Based on László Aladár’s play The Honest Finder, producer-director Ernst Lubitsch’s 1932 sophisticated comedy Trouble in Paradise is a masterclass in just how to be both brilliantly clever and hilariously witty. Herbert Marshall and Miriam Hopkins […]

Dec, 22

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