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An American in Paris ***** (1951, Gene Kelly, Leslie Caron, Oscar Levant, Nina Foch, Georges Guétary) – Classic Movie Review 2515

Director Vincente Minnelli’s 1951 dance movie An American in Paris was a triumph for him and Gene Kelly, as well as Leslie Caron. Half a dozen Oscars, including Best Picture, poured down on this breath-taking MGM musical, […]

May, 24

The Madwoman of Chaillot *** (1969, Katharine Hepburn, Paul Henreid, Oskar Homolka, Yul Brynner, Richard Chamberlain, Edith Evans, Donald Pleasence) – Classic Movie Review 2431

Director Bryan Forbes’s civilised 1969 satirical comedy drama turns Jean Giraudoux’s celebrated play La Folle de Chaillot into an offbeat vehicle for Katharine Hepburn, who plays an eccentric and idealistic French countess trying to stop the plan of corrupt powerful […]

Apr, 27

The Three Musketeers: The Queen’s Diamonds **** (1973, Michael York, Oliver Reed, Raquel Welch, Richard Chamberlain, Faye Dunaway, Christopher Lee, Frank Finlay, Charlton Heston) – Classic Movie Review 2304

Michael York is at his swashbuckling best in The Three Musketeers: The Queen’s Diamonds, as young, would-be Musketeer D’Artagnan, in director Richard Lester’s breathlessly exuberant, delightfully spoofy 1973 account of the Alexandre Dumas adventure classic. […]

Mar, 23

102 Dalmatians *** (2000, Glenn Close, Gérard Depardieu, Ioan Gruffudd) – Classic Movie Review 2225

Director Kevin Lima’s 2000 slapstick Disney live-action comedy is a quite cute and reasonably funny sequel to the 1996 hit, a remake of the 1961 classic animated feature, based on the novel by Dodie Smith. Unfortunately, […]

Feb, 28

Taken ***** (2008, Liam Neeson, Maggie Grace, Famke Janssen) – Classic Movie Review 2199

Liam Neeson is great as retired CIA agent Bryan Mills, who travels to France and uses his old skills to save his 17-year-old estranged daughter Kim (Maggie Grace, actually 25), when she is kidnapped with her friend while on a […]

Feb, 22

Can-Can ***½ (1959, Frank Sinatra, Shirley MacLaine, Maurice Chevalier, Louis Jourdan) – Classic Movie Review 2179

Director Walter Lang’s 1960 musical stars Frank Sinatra as a French attorney called François Durnais who talks his old judge buddy Paul Barriere (Maurice Chevalier) into trying to stop the gendarmes closing his girlfriend Simone […]

Feb, 17

Eastern Boys **** (2013, Olivier Rabourdin, Kirill Emelyanov) – Movie Review

Tense and twisty but realistic and raunchy, this is an excellent French gay thriller from writer-director Robin Campillo. Olivier Rabourdin stars as Daniel Muller, a discreet gay man in his late fifties who has his eye […]

Jan, 07

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