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Peppermint Soda [Diabolo Menthe] *** (1977, Eléonore Klarwein, Odile Michel) – Classic Movie Review 11,804

Writer-director Diane Kurys’s French 1977 drama Peppermint Soda [Diabolo Menthe] stars Eléonore Klarwein and Odile Michel, and won the Prix Louis-Delluc. This autobiographical tale from début director Kurys follows one year in the lives of two […]

Dec, 19

The Angel Levine *** (1970, Zero Mostel, Harry Belafonte, Ida Kaminska, Milo O’Shea, Eli Wallach, Anne Jackson) – Classic Movie Review 11,382

Zero Mostel and Harry Belafonte are superb in the sentimental 1970 drama The Angel Levine, based on a short story by Bernard Malamud. Director Jan Kadar’s sentimental 1970 drama The Angel Levine is based on […]

Jul, 11

Used People *** (1992, Shirley MacLaine, Marcello Mastroianni, Kathy Bates, Jessica Tandy, Marcia Gay Harden) – Classic Movie Review 10,468

Director Beeban Kidron’s 1992 drama Used People offers good opportunities for a lovely bunch of actresses, and is a funny, good-natured, cosily predictable film, with enough edge to see it over the sticky sentiment. Shirley […]

Oct, 27

Conspiracy of Hearts *** (1960, Lilli Palmer, Sylvia Syms, Yvonne Mitchell) – Classic Movie Review 10,118

‘Mother of God: I’ve killed a nun!’ Catholic nuns hide refugee Jewish children from the Nazis in World War Two wartime northern Italy, then risk their lives to help them escape to Palestine, in the […]

Aug, 01

Betsy’s Wedding **** (1990, Alan Alda, Molly Ringwald, Joey Bishop) – Classic Movie Review 9916

The sweet 1990 comedy Betsy’s Wedding is a tour-de-force for Alan Alda. Alda writes, directs and stars in this warm and funny comedy about a man who will do anything to give his kooky daughter […]

Jun, 15

Streets of Gold ** (1986, Klaus Maria Brandauer, Adrian Pasdar, Wesley Snipes) – Classic Movie Review 9219

Only Klaus Maria Brandauer raises a real spark of interest in director Joe Roth’s superficial 1986 Rocky clone, Streets of Gold, based on a story by Dezso Magyar. He plays Alek Neuman, a Russian Jewish […]

Jan, 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

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