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The River **** (1951, Esmond Knight, Nora Swinburne, Adrienne Corri, Patricia Walters, Thomas E Breen) – Classic Movie Review 3245

French master director Jean Renoir turns Rumer Godden’s romantic auto-biographical novel about an English family on the banks of the Ganges into this beautifully filmed (on location in Bengal in India), rich and compelling 1951 drama. The […]

Jan, 06

Arabian Nights *** (1942, Jon Hall, Maria Montez, Sabu, John Qualen, Leif Erickson, Turhan Bey, Billy Gilbert, Shemp Howard) – Classic Movie Review 3203

Director John Rawlins’s 1942 movie is delightful, expertly crafted, fast-moving escapist adventure hokum designed to cheer up World War Two wartime audiences – and it can still cheer today! A treat in Technicolor, it was nominated […]

Dec, 31

Arabian Nights [Il fiore delle mille e una notte] **** (1974, Franco Citti, Ninetto Davoli, Franco Merli, Ines Pellegrini) – Classic Movie Review 3202

Co-writer/director Pier Paolo Pasolini’s 1974 movie is the third and finest of his Trilogy of Life movies of mediaeval stories after The Decameron (1971) and The Canterbury Tales (1972), in which tales from Thousand and […]

Dec, 31

Faces ***** (1968, John Marley, Gena Rowlands, Seymour Cassel, Lynn Carlin, Fred Draper, Val Avery, Dorothy Gulliver, Darlene Conley) – Classic Movie Review 3191

Writer-director John Cassavetes’s 1968 improvised account of the failing marriage of a California wealthy middle-aged, middle-class couple, Richard and Maria Forst (John Marley and Lynn Carlin), is deservedly considered one of his finest and most […]

Dec, 29

The Sandpiper * (1965, Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Eva Marie Saint, Charles Bronson) – Classic Movie Review 3184

Vincente Minnelli’s hypnotically absurd and risibly awful Richard Burton-Elizabeth Taylor romantic melodrama The Sandpiper (1965) was made at the height of their fame when they had the pick of scripts. But they picked this one! […]

Dec, 23

The Danish Girl **** (2015, Eddie Redmayne, Alicia Vikander, Amber Heard, Matthias Schoenaerts, Ben Whishaw) – Movie Review

Director Tom Hooper’s 2015 drama is an excellent, beautifully crafted movie with two brilliant, award-worthy performances by Eddie Redmayne and Alicia Vikander and something important to say.  It has four Oscar nominations. It’s based on a true […]

Dec, 18

Random Harvest **** (1942, Ronald Colman, Greer Garson, Susan Peters, Philip Dorn, Reginald Owen, Henry Travers, Rhys Williams, Margaret Wycherly) – Classic Movie Review 3127

That most regal of stars Greer Garson brings her warm and gracious patrician presence to director Mervyn LeRoy’s much-loved 1942 MGM version of the famous story by James Hilton, author of Lost Horizon. It was […]

Dec, 04

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