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Soldier of Orange [Soldaat van Oranje] **** (1977, Rutger Hauer, Jeroen Krabbé, Susan Penhaligon, Edward Fox) – Classic Movie Review 11,167

Paul Verhoeven’s engrossing and often very stirring 1979 Netherlands World War Two epic drama Soldier of Orange [Soldaat van Oranje] [Survival Run] tells the tale of four university students growing up fast during the Nazi […]

May, 05

Colonel Redl [Oberst Redl] **** (1985, Klaus Maria Brandauer, Hans Christian Blech, Armin Mueller-Stahl) – Classic Movie Review 9344

Hungarian director István Szabó’s 1985 Colonel Redl [Oberst Redl] [Redl Ezredes] is a startlingly powerful film of a subject already familiar from John Osborne’s stage play A Patriot for Me, with a clever screenplay based […]

Feb, 03

Shining Through (1992, Michael Douglas, Melanie Griffith, Liam Neeson) – Classic Movie Review 9189

Melanie Griffith stars in writer-director David Seltzer’s hypnotically awful 1992 World War Two-set romantic thriller drama Shining Through as Linda Voss,  gets a job at a New York law firm and later becomes a spy […]

Dec, 24
Cast a Giant Shadow *** (1966, Kirk Douglas, Senta Berger, Yul Brynner, John Wayne, Frank Sinatra, Angie Dickinson) – Classic Movie Review 7139

Cast a Giant Shadow *** (1966, Kirk Douglas, Senta Berger, Yul Brynner, John Wayne, Frank Sinatra, Angie Dickinson) – Classic Movie Review 7139

Ted Berkman’s first book Cast a Giant Shadow is about ‘Mickey Marcus’, a real-life Jewish-American West Point graduate who commanded units of the fledgling Israeli Defence Forces during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War. It makes challenging source material for any film maker. Writer-producer-director […]

Jun, 09

The Merchant of Venice *** (2004, Al Pacino, Joseph Fiennes, Lynn Collins, Jeremy Irons, Alan Corduner) – Classic Movie Review 6207

Writer-director Michael Radford’s much admired 2004 movie version of the William Shakespeare tragic play is gorgeously filmed where it is supposed to happen in Venice. Al Pacino has a field day as the Merchant Shylock, charismatically […]

Nov, 07

Ulysses **** (1967, Milo O’Shea, Barbara Jefford, Maurice Roëves) – Classic Movie Review 6163

Co-writer/producer/ director Joseph Strick’s superb 1967 British drama is a bold and involving – and admirable – attempt to translate the seemingly unfilmable James Joyce stream-of-consciousness novel to the screen. It is especially notable for […]

Oct, 31

Wise Guys * (1986, Danny DeVito, Joe Piscopo, Harvey Keitel, Ray Sharkey, Patti LuPone, Dan Hedaya, Julie Bovasso) – Classic Movie Review 6045

Even Danny DeVito cannot rescue director Brian De Palma’s tasteless and unfunny 1986 gangster crime comedy about two hoodlums called Harry Valentini and Moe Dickstein, played by DeVito and Saturday Night Live alumnus Joe Piscopo (who […]

Sep, 24

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