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City of Women [La Città Delle Donne] *** (1980, Marcello Mastroianni, Anna Prucnal, Bernice Stegers) – Classic Movie Review 4287

Later, lesser, still significant Fellini, and still with Mastroianni. Marcello Mastroianni stars as the businessman Snàporaz, who finds himself trapped in a large hotel and dreams that he is menaced by feminists in a city of […]

Sep, 03

Mr & Mrs Bridge **½ (1990, Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Robert Sean Leonard, Margaret Welsh, Kyra Sedgwick, Blythe Danner, Simon Callow, Austin Pendleton, Saundra McClain) – Classic Movie Review 4183

Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward star as an unyielding lawyer Walter Bridge and his pliant wife India Bridge in director James Ivory’s 1990 tale of an upper-class Kansas family between World War One and World […]

Aug, 16

Think Fast, Mr Moto *** (1937, Peter Lorre, Virginia Field, Thomas Beck, Sig Ruman) – Classic Movie Review 3323

Director Norman Foster’s 1937 black and white crime thriller Think Fast, Mr Moto stars Peter Lorre, who launches his series of eight films as the talented Mr Moto, in which author John P Marquand’s Japanese […]

Feb, 04

Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? **** (1957, Jayne Mansfield, Tony Randall, Betsy Drake, Joan Blondell, John Williams, Henry Jones, Mickey Hargitay, Groucho Marx) – Classic Film Review 3248

Writer-producer-director Frank Tashlin follows up his 1956 success The Girl Can’t Help It that made a movie star of Jayne Mansfield by making a film of her concurrent stage success Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? in 1957 with Mansfield and […]

Jan, 08

Pasolini **** (2014, Willem Dafoe, Riccardo Scamarcio, Ninetto Davoli, Maria de Medeiros, Adriana Asti) – Movie Review

Director Abel Ferrara’s inventive and disturbing film is an impressionistic kaleidoscopic look at the events of the last day in the life of the controversial and provocative gay Italian film-maker Pier Paolo Pasolini in 1975. Like it subject, […]

Sep, 05

Awakenings **** (1990, Robert De Niro, Robin Williams, Julie Kavner, Ruth Nelson, John Heard, Penelope Ann Miller, Max von Sydow) – Classic Movie Review 2868

Director Penny Marshall’s true-story 1990 drama stars Robin Williams as a timid doctor, who, along with a kindly nurse (Julie Kavner), awakes a group of patients in a Bronx hospital from a sleep-like trance. As […]

Aug, 31

Animal Crackers ***** (1930, Marx Brothers) – Classic Movie Review 1471

‘One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got in my pajamas, I don’t know.’ – Groucho Marx. The four Marx Brothers Groucho, Chico, Harpo and Zeppo are on tip-top funny form […]

Jul, 25

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