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Heaven Can Wait ***½ (1978, Warren Beatty, Dyan Cannon, Charles Grodin, James Mason, Julie Christie, Jack Warden, Vincent Gardenia, Buck Henry) – Classic Movie Review 3451

Co-writer/ co-producer/ co-director/ star Warren Beatty’s 1978 comedy is no relation to the 1943 classic Ernst Lubitsch movie of the same name, Heaven Can Wait, but instead a highly amusing and popular remake of Here Comes Mr […]

Mar, 05

Fahrenheit 451 **** (1966, Julie Christie, Oskar Werner, Cyril Cusack, Anton Diffring, Jeremy Spenser, Bee Duffell, Michael Balfour, Ann Bell) – Classic Movie Review 3012

François Truffaut’s love of books shines through his thoroughly compelling and intriguing adaptation from Ray Bradbury’s 1953 novel of his 1984-style sci-fi story about a typically oppressive, dystopian future world where books have been outlawed […]

Oct, 28

Doctor Zhivago ***** (1965, Omar Sharif, Julie Christie, Geraldine Chaplin, Alec Guinness, Rita Tushingham, Ralph Richardson, Tom Courtenay, Rod Steiger) – Classic Movie Review 2692

Director David Lean’s lovingly made 1965 movie version of Boris Pasternak’s great Russian novel stars Omar Sharif as the Moscow doctor and poet Yuri Zhivago, who is embroiled in the horrors of the Russian revolution and […]

Jul, 12

McCabe and Mrs Miller ***** (1971, Warren Beatty, Julie Christie, Rene Auberjonois) – Classic Movie Review 2276

Director Robert Altman’s 1971 revisionist view of the Western is atypical of the genre annoyed and so alienated many action fans back in the day and, despite its obvious qualities, was greeted with faint praise. Indeed […]

Mar, 19

Darling **** (1965, Julie Christie, Dirk Bogarde, Laurence Harvey) – Classic Movie Review 2,270

John Schlesinger’s 1965 film Darling stars Julie Christie at her most luminous. She won the Best Actress Oscar as an ambitious, amoral English model who sleeps her way to the top of the Swinging London […]

Mar, 15

DragonHeart **** (1996, Dennis Quaid, Julie Christie, David Thewlis, Dina Meyer, Pete Postlethwaite, Jason Isaacs, voice of Sean Connery) – Classic Movie Review 2214

Director Rob Cohen’s 1996 is Arthurian legend adventure film doesn’t quite star Sean Connery – only his inimitable voice and a computer-generated dragon based on his movements. It really is a performance that an actor […]

Feb, 25

The Go-Between ***** (1971, Julie Christie, Alan Bates, Dominic Guard, Margaret Leighton, Michael Redgrave) – Classic Movie Review 2213

Director Joseph Losey and his screenwriter Harold Pinter together fashion this most ravishing and touching 1971 film out of L P Hartley’s marvellous, delicate novel about the divided loyalties of a young boy (Dominic Guard) who, […]

Feb, 25

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