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Jeremy **** (1973, Robby Benson, Glynnis O’Connor) – Classic Movie Review 3705

Writer-director Arthur Barron’s 1973 romance teams Robby Benson and Glynnis O’Connor in this tender, bitter-sweet tale of first-time love. Benson stars as a shy young New York cellist student called Jeremy, who meets and romances upper-class aspiring teenage […]

May, 14

Libeled Lady **** (1936, Myrna Loy, Spencer Tracy, Jean Harlow, William Powell) – Classic Movie Review 3682

Director Jack Conway’s infallibly entertaining 1936 vintage MGM comedy boasts four of the biggest star names of the Thirties and a witty, sparkling script about an heiress Connie Allenbury (Myrna Loy) suing a paper for […]

May, 09

Knight of Cups **** (2015, Christian Bale, Cate Blanchett, Natalie Portman, Brian Dennehy, Wes Bentley, Antonio Banderas, Freida Pinto) – Movie Review

As an old-style art movie, writer-director Terrence Malick’s Knight of Cups is both a Hollywood documentary and satire and personal statement. It brings both Fellini and Antonioni to mind. This dream-like puzzle movie is either mesmerising or […]

May, 06

Words and Music *** (1948, Mickey Rooney, Judy Garland, Tom Drake, June Allyson, Janet Leigh, Betty Garrett, Ann Sothern, Perry Como) – Classic Movie Review 3622

Director Norman Taurog’s 1948 movie is a fictionalised musical bioipc, very loosely based on the creative partnership of the composer Richard Rodgers (Tom Drake) and lyricist Lorenz Hart (Mickey Rooney). A lavish showcasing of the Rodgers and Hart catalogue of […]

Apr, 26

Under the Cherry Moon *** (1986, Prince, Jerome Benton, Kristin Scott Thomas) – Classic Movie Review 3613

An extremely lively, now classic score, including ‘Kiss’, ‘Mountains’ and ‘Girls and Boys’, partly rescues this somewhat tiresome Forties-style fantasy, released in black and white in 1986 and directed by the Eighties Prince of pop as a […]

Apr, 24

Under the Clock [The Clock] ***** (1945, Judy Garland, Robert Walker, James Gleason, Keenan Wynn) Classic Movie Review 3612

Based on a story by Paul and Pauline Gallico, director Vincente Minnelli’s exquisite 1945 wartime romance is an utterly lovely, totally beguiling movie. Judy Garland stars as Alice Maybery, a World War Two working girl, who meets, […]

Apr, 24

The Prince and Me ** (2004, Julia Stiles, Luke Mably, Ben Miller, Miranda Richardson, James Fox) – Classic Movie Review 3588

Director Martha Coolidge’s 2004 romcom stars Julia Stiles as US student Paige, who falls in love with her cute classmate Edvard (Luke Mably), little knowing that he’s really a Danish prince, enjoying a private life […]

Apr, 18

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