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Big Eyes ***½ (2014, Amy Adams, Christoph Waltz) – Movie Review

Amy Adams and Christoph Waltz are totally excellent as the real-life naïve painter Margaret Keane and her husband Walter in director Tim Burton’s admirable, loving biopic. The film’s thoroughly likeable and appealing without necessarily being an award-winner or […]

Dec, 18

The Young Girls of Rochefort [Les demoiselles de Rochefort] ***** (1967, Catherine Deneuve, Françoise Dorléac, Gene Kelly, George Chakiris, Danielle Darrieux) – Classic Movie Review 1946

French movie director Jacques Demy’s 1967 musical follow-up to his 1964 Cannes Palme d’or-winning hit The Umbrellas of Cherbourg [Les parapluies de Cherbourg] is another devastatingly charming, light-hearted, carefree operetta. It is overloaded with energy, dynamism and […]

Dec, 10

The Picture of Dorian Gray **** (1945, George Sanders, Hurd Hatfield, Donna Reed, Angela Lansbury) – Classic Movie Review 1887

Hurd Hatfield stars in the 1945 film The Picture of Dorian Gray as the beautiful young man who unwittingly makes a pact with the Devil to keep his youthful beauty while his portrait in the […]

Nov, 25

Hannah and her Sisters ***** (1986, Mia Farrow, Dianne Wiest, Michael Caine, Woody Allen, Barbara Hershey, Max von Sydow, Sam Waterston, Carrie Fisher) – Classic Movie Review 1796

Writer-director Woody Allen’s triple-Oscar-winning 1986 crowd-pleaser Hannah and her Sisters is one of his best and most enduring movies. Some even say it is his finest work. Allen’s then partner Mia Farrow stars as famous […]

Nov, 02

Carrington *** ( Emma Thompson, Jonathan Pryce, Steven Waddington) – Classic Movie Review 1708

Writer-director Christopher Hampton’s 1995 drama provides another peep behind the scenes of English literature dissecting the odd, platonic but deep relationship between the sexually confused painter Dora Carrington (Emma Thompson) and gay writer Lytton Strachey (Jonathan Pryce), […]

Sep, 23

Girl with a Pearl Earring **** (2003, Colin Firth, Scarlett Johansson, Tom Wilkinson) – Classic Movie Review 1665

Director Peter Webber’s civilised 2003 drama stars Scarlett Johansson as the Dutch maid Griet who becomes the model for 17th-century artist Dutch master Johannes Vermeer (1632-75), played by Colin Firth. Olivia Hetreed‘s literate screenplay for this highly […]

Sep, 12

Great Expectations (1998, Ethan Hawke) Classic Film Review 842

Here’s director Alfonso (Gravity) Cuarón’s flashily filmed 1998 American revised and modernised version of the Charles Dickens novel, aimed accurately in style and tone at pop-video teenagers. There’s surprising, but largely successful casting in Ethan […]

Feb, 18

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