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Europa Europa **** (1990, Marco Hofschneider, René Hofschneider, Julie Delpy, Solomon Perel) – Classic Movie Review 4668

Marco Hofschneider’s acting career started unexpectedly when he was cast to play the lead in writer-director Agnieszka Holland’s exciting, rousing and highly emotional 1990 true-life war drama. It was the Golden Globe winner for Best Foreign Language […]

Nov, 20

Francofonia ***½ (2015, Louis-Do de Lencquesaing, Benjamin Utzerath, Vincent Nemeth, Johanna Korthals Altes, Aleksandr Sokurov) – Movie Review

Russian writer-director Aleksandr Sokurov’s self-consciously eccentric 2015 mix of documentary and drama is provocative and fascinating. Sometimes, it is well worth trying something out of your usual comfort zone. Sokurov fills the screen with some great ideas […]

Nov, 09

Triumph of the Will [Triumph des Willens] ***** (1935, Adolf Hitler, Hermann Göring, Martin Bormann, Joseph Goebbels, Rudolf Hess, Heinrich Himmler, Reinhard Heydrich) – Classic Movie Review 4476

‘Heil! Heil! Heil!’ Producer-writer-director Leni Riefenstahl’s legendary infamous 1935 Nazi film of the Third Reich’s 1934 Nazi Party Rally in Nuremberg, Germany, Triumph of the Will [Triumph des Willens], is astonishing as documentary and frightening […]

Oct, 16

Kanal ***** (1957, Teresa Izewska, Tadeusz Janczar, Wienczyslaw Glinski, Emil Kariewicz) – Classic Movie Review 4471

In Andrzej Wajda’s forceful 1957 Polish film Kanal, which is based on an actual incident, resistance fighter patriots use Warsaw’s sewer system (‘kanal’) to try to escape German soldiers in 1944, during the Warsaw Uprising […]

Oct, 10

Anthropoid **½ (2016, Cillian Murphy, Jamie Dornan, Brian Caspe, Toby Jones, Karel Hermánek Jr, Bill Milner, Charlotte Le Bon) – Movie Review

Well meaning and largely convincing but depressing and rather disappointing film of the true story of Operation Anthropoid, the WWII mission to assassinate top Nazi SS General Reinhard Heydrich, leader of occupying Nazi forces in […]

Sep, 14

Julia ***** (1977, Jane Fonda, Vanessa Redgrave, Jason Robards, Maximilian Schell, Hal Holbrook, Rosemary Murphy, Meryl Streep) – Classic Movie Review 4051

Those three fine actors Jane Fonda, Vanessa Redgrave and Jason Robards eagerly grab their chances to shine in director Fred Zinnemann’s handsome 1977 film of author/ playwright Lillian Hellman’s story Pentimento, her memoir of her […]

Jul, 19

The Boys from Brazil *** (1978, Gregory Peck, Laurence Olivier, James Mason, Lilli Palmer, Uta Hagen, Steve Guttenberg, Denholm Elliott, Rosemary Harris) – Classic Movie Review 4040

Though battling ill health, the 70-year-old Laurence Olivier as an elderly Jewish Nazi hunter, based loosely on Simon Wiesenthal, is the best and classiest thing about director Franklin J Schaffner’s 1978 big-budget British movie version […]

Jul, 18

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