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The End of the Affair **** (1999, Ralph Fiennes, Julianne Moore, Stephen Rea) – Classic Movie Review 831

Writer-director Neil Jordan’s 1999 movie is much better than the 1954 Hollywood-ised version (with Deborah Kerr and Van Johnson) and it’s an excellent and edgy though still not entirely satisfactory film of one of Graham Greene’s […]

Feb, 15

The Butcher Boy **** (1997, Stephen Rea, Fiona Shaw, Eamonn Owens, Sean McGinley, Ian Hart, Brendan Gleeson, Sinéad O’Connor, Milo O’Shea) – Classic Movie Review 794

This story of innocence undone comes from the director of Michael Collins, Mona Lisa (1984), The Crying Game (1992) and Interview with the Vampire (1994). Writer-director Neil Jordan’s 1998 film The Butcher Boy is one of this fine film-maker’s […]

Feb, 02

Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles ***** (1994, Brad Pitt, Tom Cruise, Antonio Banderas, Christian Slater, Stephen Rea, Kirsten Dunst, Thandie Newton) – Classic Movie Review 88

Director Neil Jordan’s commanding, all-embracing 1994 romantic vampire movie Interview with the Vampire, based on Anne Rice’s 1976 bestselling novel, is a dark, swirling homoerotic meditation on love, death and the hereafter. Along with Dracula […]

Jul, 25

Byzantium *** (2012, Saoirse Ronan, Gemma Arterton, Sam Riley, Caleb Landry Jones, Johnny Lee Miller, Tom Hollander, Daniel Mays) – Movie Review

Vampires again – good! – and from Neil Jordan, the director of Interview with the Vampire  – good! –  but oh so very serious – bad! Byzantium is lovingly done but it’s not really very […]

May, 30

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