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Posts Tagged "opera"
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The Phantom of the Opera ** (1983, Maximilian Schell, Jane Seymour, Michael York, Jeremy Kemp, Diana Quick) – Classic Movie Review 5102
Maximilian Schell makes a fair job of The Phantom in director Robert Markowitz’s sumptuous, fast moving and well-cast 1983 TV movie remake, attractively filmed in Hungary. This tolerable but not special film makes no special […]
The Night Porter [Il portiere di notte] *** (1974, Dirk Bogarde, Charlotte Rampling, Philippe Leroy, Gabriele Ferzetti) – Classic Movie Review 4599
Ah yes, there is no such thing as bad publicity, though occasionally there is such a thing as a bad film, and back in 1974 many people thought this sensationalist, provocative movie was one. Director […]
Fitzcarraldo ***** (1982, Klaus Kinski, Claudia Cardinale, José Lewgoy) – Classic Movie Review 4459
The great Klaus Kinski stars in the role he was born for – the real-life turn-of-the-last-century mad Irishman Brian Sweeney Fitzgerald, whose plan was to build an opera house in the middle of the Peruvian jungle […]
M Butterfly ** (1993, Jeremy Irons, John Lone, Barbara Sukowa, Ian Richardson, Annabel Leventon) – Classic Movie Review 4366
Whatever has gone wrong with this stage to film transfer of the hit Broadway and London West End play by David Henry Hwang about a French diplomat serving in Beijing in 1964, who falls for Chinese opera […]
The Panther’s Claw **½ (1942, Sidney Blackmer, Byron Foulger, Rick Vallin, Herbert Rawlinson, Gerta Rozan, Lynn Starr) – Classic Movie Review 4294
Sidney Blackmer takes over from Adolphe Menjou as tough Police Commissioner Thatcher Colt for director William Beaudine’s 1942 belated third Colt film, this time from PRC studios. Extortion leads to homicide at the opera and […]
Diva **** (1981, Wilhelmenia Fernandez, Frédéric Andréi, Richard Bohringer, Roland Bertin) – Classic Movie Review 4224
Young Parisian writer-director Jean-Jacques Beineix’s 1981 French thriller Diva is his witty, trendy and stylish film debut. Pushing a lot harder than most movies and turning its back on the realist mood of Seventies, Diva […]
The Phantom of the Opera **** (2004, Gerard Butler, Emmy Rossum, Patrick Wilson, Minnie Driver) – Classic Movie Review 3453
Gerard Butler makes a success of his surprise casting as the Phantom in Joel Schumacher’s opulent 2004 filming of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s musical version of the 1911 novel Le Fantöme de l’Opéra by Gaston Leroux. […]