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Long Weekend *** (1978, John Hargreaves, Briony Behets) – Classic Movie Review 11,801

Director Colin Eggleston’s 1978 Australian psychological horror film Long Weekend stars John Hargreaves and Briony Behets. Australian city couple Peter and Marcia (Hargreaves, Behets) have the strange kind of idea only people in movies ever […]

Dec, 18

Powaqqatsi **** (1988, director Godfrey Reggio) – Classic Movie Review 10,148

Director Godfrey Reggio’s 1988 documentary Powaqqatsi is the very welcome sequel to Koyaanisqatsi (1982), with another extraordinary Philip Glass score. It is a collage of scenes of cultures around the globe, showing how the Third […]

Aug, 08

Where the Green Ants Dream [Wo die grünen Ameisen träumen] ** (1984, Bruce Spence, Wandjuk Marika, Roy Marika) – Classic Movie Review 9266

Writer-director Werner Herzog’s 1984 Where the Green Ants Dream [Wo die grünen Ameisen träumen] is a disappointing film from Herzog about Australian Aborigines clashing with uranium miners over rights to their land that they believe […]

Jan, 15

Le Déjeuner Sur L’Herbe [Lunch on the Grass] [Picnic on the Grass] ***** (1959, Paul Meurisse, Charles Blavette, André Brunot, Paulette Dubost, Régine Blaess, Catherine Rouvel, Fernand Sardou, Ingrid Nordine) – Classic Movie Review 8984

The 1959 French world cinema masterwork classic Le Déjeuner Sur L’Herbe [Lunch on the Grass] [Picnic on the Grass] is a superb film, one of Jean Renoir’s and France’s finest. It is partly made on […]

Oct, 15

Medicine Man *** (1992, Sean Connery, Lorraine Bracco, José Wilker) – Classic Movie Review 6799

Director John McTiernan’s 1992 adventure stars a pony-tailed Sean Connery as Dr Robert Campbell, a drug company’s eccentric scientist who has discovered a cure for cancer in the South America tropical rain forests, but he cannot replicate […]

Mar, 13

The Red Turtle [La tortue rouge] *** (2016) – Movie Review

Dutch director Michael Dudok de Wit’s wordless 2016 animation for adults is sweet, appealing and beautifully crafted in wonderful visuals. With Studio Ghibli very unusually co-operating with a director outside Japan, it was Oscar nominated […]

May, 21

The Bear *** (1988, Tchéky Karyo, Jack Wallace, André Lacombe) – Classic Movie Review 5334

Director Jean-Jacques Annaud’s 1988 adventure is the beautifully filmed, heartwarming tale of orphaned baby bear cub Douce (played by Youk the Bear), a happy little grizzly who scampers round the British Columbian mountains in the […]

Apr, 23

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