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La Traviata **** (1982, Teresa Stratas, Plácido Domingo, Cornell MacNeil) – Classic Movie Review 8822

Director Franco Zeffirelli’s sumptuous, thrilling 1982 Italian film version of Giuseppe Verdi’s opera La Traviata, based on Alexandre Dumas Fils’s The Lady of the Camelias [La dame aux camélias], is a glossy paean to the […]

Aug, 12

Sweet November *** (1968, Sandy Dennis, Anthony Newley, Theodore Bikel) – Classic Movie Review 8,814

The sweet 1968 romance film Sweet November stars Sandy Dennis as a kooky New Yorker who has a new boyfriend every month to pack as much into her doomed life as possible. Mr November is […]

Aug, 10

Dreamchild **** (1985, Coral Browne, Ian Holm, Peter Gallagher, Jane Asher) – Classic Movie Review 8748

The late Jim Henson’s Creature Workshop created the wonderful Alice in Wonderland models for director Gavin Miller’s rich and resonant 1985 biographical comedy drama Dreamchild, which tells a revealing true story tale about the real […]

Jul, 23

Shanghai * (1935, Loretta Young, Charles Boyer, Warner Oland) – Classic Movie Review 8690

‘Love Hurls a Challenge… At a Law As Old as Civilization Itself!’ Director James Flood’s turgid 1935 romantic melodrama Shanghai stars Loretta Young as an American woman called Barbara Howard, who stands by a Shanghai financier […]

Jul, 09

The Taming of the Shrew *** (1929, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks Sr, Edwin Maxwell) – Classic Movie Review 8633

Douglas Fairbanks Sr and his wife Mary Pickford at their end of their great run of success finally star together – and entertain! – as a virile Petruchio and tempestuous Kate in director Sam Taylor’s […]

Jun, 24

I Love You, Alice B Toklas! *** (1968, Peter Sellers, Jo Van Fleet, Leigh Taylor-Young, Joyce Van Patten, David Arkin, Herb Edelman) – Classic Movie Review 8547

The Jewish middle-class and Sixties hippie cultures are satirised in director Hy Averback’s unevenly amusing 1968 comedy I Love You, Alice B Toklas!, with Peter Sellers on form as a mild West Coast lawyer taking […]

Jun, 04

An Actor’s Revenge [Yukinojô Henge] **** (1963, Kazuo Hasegawa, Fujiko Yamamoto, Ayako Wakao) – Classic Movie Review 8357

Director Kon Ichikawa’s 1963 Japanese Eastmancolor classic An Actor’s Revenge [Yukinojô Henge] is a cleverly intricate and rivetingly compelling drama about Yukinojo, a touring Kabuki actor who sets out to avenge himself on the three […]

Apr, 12

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