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The Firemen’s Ball [Horí, má panenko] **** (1967, Jan Vostrcil, Josef Sebánek, Josef Valnoha) – Classic Movie Review 6921

Director Milos Forman’s amusing, closely observed 1967 Czech comedy, made in the style of a Czechoslovakian Jacques Tati but with sharp a political bite, centres on the arrangements for a small Czech provincial town’s annual […]

Apr, 15

Confessions from a Holiday Camp ** (1977, Robin Askwith, Anthony Booth, Bill Maynard, Sheila White, Doris Hare, Liz Fraser, Linda Hayden, John Junkin, Lance Percival, David Auker) – Classic Movie Review 6,876

The gang is back for the 1977 sex comedy film Confessions from a Holiday Camp, the fourth and final saucy outing, revealing what Timmy Lea (Robin Askwith) and Sid Noggett (Anthony Booth) get up to […]

Apr, 02

The Divorcee *** (1930, Norma Shearer, Chester Morris, Conrad Nagel, Robert Montgomery, Florence Eldridge) – Classic Movie Review 6818

Norma Shearer won the 1930 Best Actress Oscar as Jerry, a married woman who discovers her newspaper-career husband Ted (Chester Morris) is unfaithful and leaves him to enjoy the same infidelity pleasures as he does. […]

Mar, 18

Lady Be Good *** (1941, Eleanor Powell, Ann Sothern, Robert Young, Lionel Barrymore, John Carroll, Red Skelton, Virginia O’Brien, Dan Dailey) – Classic Movie Review 6791

The 1941 MGM musical Lady Be Good stars Eleanor Powell, who dances dazzlingly in Busby Berkeley’s spectacular routine ‘Fascinating Rhythm’, and there is Ann Sothern comfort a-plenty too. Director Norman Z McLeod’s 1941 musical film […]

Mar, 12

Ladies of Leisure *** (1930, Barbara Stanwyck, Lowell Sherman, Ralph Graves) – Classic Movie Review 6778

Barbara Stanwyck plays a typical Thirties wisecracking, gold-digging model girl, in her first film with frequent director Frank Capra, the romantic drama Ladies of Leisure (1930). ‘ALL DIALOG DRAMA OF NEW YORK’S NITE LIFE. Zippy, […]

Mar, 07

The Party **** (2017, Patricia Clarkson, Kristin Scott Thomas, Timothy Spall, Cillian Murphy, Emily Mortimer, Bruno Ganz, Cherry Jones) – Movie Review

‘You’re a first class lesbian and a second rate thinker. Must be all those women’s studies.’ Writer-director Sally Potter’s 71-minute black and white tragic-comedy drama is great – stylish, witty and clever. I hadn’t expected […]

Dec, 28

The Last Time I Saw Paris **½ (1954, Elizabeth Taylor, Van Johnson, Walter Pidgeon, Roger Moore, Donna Reed, Eva Gabor) – Classic Movie Review 6412

F Scott Fitzgerald’s 1931 semi-autobiographical short story of Americans in Paris, Babylon Revisited, makes a loose starting point basis for an interesting though shaky 1954 movie under Richard Brooks’s direction. Its setting is shifted from […]

Dec, 15

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