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Assignment – Paris ** (1952, Dana Andrews, Märta Torén, George Sanders, Audrey Totter) – Classic Movie Review 11,240

Yes it is Assignment Paris but Destination Budapest. And assignment Robert Parrish, who conscientiously directs Dana Andrews as Jimmy Race, a US Paris-based New York Herald Tribune reporter sent by his editor behind the Iron […]

May, 25

Paris Vu Par [Six in Paris] *** (1965, Jean-Pierre Andréani, Stéphane Audran, Nadine Ballot) – Classic Movie Review 11,129

The 1965 film Paris Vu Par [Six in Paris] is a starry, enjoyable French New Wave portmanteau movie or anthology film, exploring the delights of different parts of Paris, as seen through the eyes of […]

Apr, 23

Quatre nuits d’un rêveur [Four Nights of a Dreamer] **** (1971, Isabelle Weingarten, Guillaume des Forêts, Jean-Maurice Monnoyer) – Classic Movie Review 10,917

Marthe: ‘What’s the matter?’ Jacques: ‘I love you. That’s the matter.’ Writer-director Robert Bresson’s beautiful, miniaturist 1971 French Eastmancolor drama film Quatre nuits d’un rêveur [Four Nights of a Dreamer] is loosely based on the […]

Feb, 15

An Italian Straw Hat [Un chapeau de paille d’Italie] **** (1928, Albert Préjean, Olga Tschechowa, Geymond Vital, Paul Ollivier, Alice Tissot, Alexej Bondireff, Marise Maia) – Classic Movie Review 10,892

Director René Clair’s delightful 1928 black and white silent movie satirical comedy An Italian Straw Hat [Un Chapeau de Paille D’Italie], attacking the pettiness of the bourgeoisie of the 1900s, revolves around an Italian straw […]

Feb, 07

The Face at the Window *** (1939, Tod Slaughter, Marjorie Taylor, John Warwick, Aubrey Mallalieu) – Classic Movie Review 10,866

Producer-director George King’s 1939 thriller The Face at the Window stars Tod Slaughter at his most succulently barnstorming as Chevalier Lucio del Gardo in a 19th-century tale of an 1880 Paris deranged killer who keeps […]

Feb, 02

The Great Lover *** (1949, Bob Hope, Rhonda Fleming, Roland Young) – Classic Movie Review 10,542

Rhonda Fleming stars opposite the great comedian Bob Hope in the comedy thriller The Great Lover (1949), scoring a big hit and making her an established bona fide star. However, Fleming recalled: ‘After that, I […]

Nov, 14

Night on Earth **½ (1991, Winona Ryder, Gena Rowlands, Giancarlo Esposito, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Béatrice Dalle, Isaach De Bankolé, Rosie Perez, Roberto Benigni, Paolo Bonacelli, Matti Pellonpää) – Classic Movie Review 10,462)

The promising 1991 anthology comedy drama Night on Earth offers five taxi-driver stories set in different cities from writer/ producer/ director Jim Jarmusch, but not one of them adds up to a fully satisfying trip. […]

Oct, 26

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