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The Quare Fellow ***½ (1962, Patrick McGoohan, Sylvia Syms, Walter Macken) – Classic Movie Review 10,918

Underrated actor Patrick McGoohan grabs his opportunity as Thomas Crimmin, a new young Dublin prison warder questioning his views on capital punishment at the imminent hanging of a condemned man, in writer-director Arthur Dreifuss’s 1963 […]

Feb, 15

The Passion of Anna [En Passion] *** (1969, Liv Ullmann, Bibi Andersson, Max von Sydow, Erland Josephson) – Classic Movie Review 9924

Writer-director Ingmar Bergman’s tormented 1969 Swedish drama film The Passion of Anna [En Passion] is hardly considered one of Bergman’s greatest or most successful works, thanks perhaps to a self-imposed burden of heavy weight it […]

Jun, 17

El **** (1953, Arturo de Córdova, Delia Garcés, Aurora Walker, Manuel Dondé) – Classic Movie Review 7637

Director Luis Buñuel’s 1952 Mexican movie El (aka This Strange Passion, or Torments) stars Arturo de Córdova as the middle-aged, wealthy, suave and uptight Francisco Galván de Montemayor, who is consumed with paranoid, raging jealousy after […]

Oct, 04

White Cargo *** (1942, Hedy Lamarr, Walter Pidgeon, Richard Carlson, Frank Morgan, Bramwell Fletcher, Richard Ainley, Reginald Owen, Henry O’Neill) – Classic Movie Review 6299

Director Richard Thorpe’s 1942 MGM film is a daft, but endearingly simple-minded old-style romantic adventure drama movie of love-hate triangle goings-on in the jungle, with Leon Gordon adapting his own play from 1923. Walter Pidgeon stars […]

Nov, 24

Cronaca di un amore [Story of a Love Affair] **** (1950, Lucia Bosé, Massimo Girotti, Ferdinando Sarmi, Gino Rossi) – Classic Movie Review 6282

Michelangelo Antonioni’s hugely promising and satisfying 1950 romantic crime drama Cronaca di un amore [Story of a Love Affair] is his first full-length feature film, after making highly regarded documentaries, and stars Massimo Girotti (as […]

Nov, 22

Racer and the Jailbird [Le Fidèle] ** (2017, Matthias Schoenaerts, Adèle Exarchopoulos, Jean-Benoît Ugeux, Kerem Can, Sam Louwyck, Stefaan Degand) – Movie Review 

Matthias Schoenaerts stars as high-flying low-life Brussels gangster Gigi, who is introduced to young upper-class racing driver Bibi (Adèle Exarchopoulos) by her brother at a party. Gigi hits on Bibi at once. Bibi is charmed. They agree to meet again in a […]

Sep, 29

The Age of Innocence *** (1993, Daniel Day-Lewis, Michelle Pfeiffer, Winona Ryder, Miriam Margolyes) – Classic Movie Review 5,280

Martin Scorsese’s reverent, faithful film of Edith Wharton’s 1920 novel The Age of Innocence follows the fortunes of society lawyer Newland Archer (Daniel Day-Lewis), engaged to May Welland (Winona Ryder) but drawn to Countess Olenska […]

Apr, 12

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