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- Walk on Water **** (2004, Lior Ashkenazi, Knut Berger, Caroline Peters) – Classic Movie Review 13,254
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The Mating Season *** (1951, Gene Tierney, John Lund, Miriam Hopkins, Thelma Ritter, Jan Sterling) – Classic Movie Review 5707
Director Mitchell Leisen’s 1951 comedy stars Gene Tierney, John Lund, Miriam Hopkins and Thelma Ritter. Irritatingly dull performances from leads Lund and Tierney nearly sink a comedy story of the working-class boy named Val McNulty […]
Houseboat *** (1958, Cary Grant, Sophia Loren, Martha Hyer, Eduardo Ciannelli, Harry Guardino, Murray Hamilton) – Classic Movie Review 4543
Co-writer/ director Melville Shavelson’s popular 1958 romantic comedy Houseboat has the inestimable advantage of teaming wonderful Cary Grant and Sophia Loren, great friends in real life, in their glorious golden days. There were two Oscar […]
Rembrandt **** (1936, Charles Laughton, Gertrude Lawrence, Elsa Lanchester) – Classic Movie Review 4514
Producer-director Alexander Korda’s splendid 1936 historical biopic focuses on Charles Laughton’s moving depiction of an artist declining into old age and poverty – in this case the 17th-century Dutch painter Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn (15 […]
La Ronde *** (1964, Marie Dubois, Claude Giraud, Anna Karina, Jean-Claude Brialy, Jane Fonda, Maurice Ronet, Catherine Spaak, Francine Bergé) – Classic Movie Review 4306
Director Roger Vadim’s starry and atmospheric 1964 film adaptation of the classic Arthur Schnitzler play, now re-set in Paris during the summer of 1914, tells the same ten circular thematically interlinked tales of love and seduction. […]
La Ronde ***** (1950, Anton Walbrook, Simone Signoret, Serge Reggiani, Simone Simon, Daniel Gélin, Danielle Darrieux, Fernand Gravey) – Classic Movie Review 4305
Co-writer/ director Max Ophüls’s 1950 film masterwork is a brilliantly plush, atmospheric and marvellously performed adaptation of the classic Arthur Schnitzler play. It is set in a hauntingly atmospheric Vienna in 1900, and is told […]
La Cérémonie [A Judgement in Stone] **** (1995, Isabelle Huppert, Sandrine Bonnaire, Jacqueline Bisset, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Virginie Ledoyen) – Classic Movie Review 4,192
Claude Chabrol turns Ruth Rendell’s thriller novel A Judgement in Stone into one of his best movies, the 1995 crime drama film La Cérémonie. Isabelle Huppert won the 1996 César Award for Best Actress, one […]
Desperate Living *** (1977, Mink Stole, Liz Renay, Susan Lowe, Edith Massey, Mary Vivian Pearce) – Classic Movie Review 4100
John Waters’s 1977 gross-out bad taste comedy stars Mink Stole as desperately unhappy, crazy rich housewife Peggy Gravel who smothers her hubby to death, helped by her enormously tubby maid Grizelda Brown (Jean Hill), who […]