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Novecento [1900] ***** (1976, Robert De Niro, Gérard Depardieu, Dominique Sanda, Burt Lancaster, Sterling Hayden, Donald Sutherland, Stefania Sandrelli) – Classic Movie Review 10,792
Bernardo Bertolucci’s 1976 film 1900 (or Novecento in Italian) is his extraordinary, often brilliant Italian historical epic about a family of Italian nobles and the struggle of the workers in the first half of the […]
Arabian Adventure *** (1979, Christopher Lee, Milo O’Shea, Oliver Tobias, Emma Samms, Mickey Rooney) – Classic Movie Review 10,134
Director Kevin Connor’s 1979 fantasy adventure film Arabian Adventure stars Oliver Tobias as Prince Hasan, who has a quest to rescue beautiful damsel-in-distress Princess Zuleira (Emma Samms) from the wicked sorcerer Alquazar (Christopher Lee), who […]
The Last Valley ** (1971, Michael Caine, Omar Sharif, Florinda Bolkan, Nigel Davenport, Per Oscarsson, Arthur O’Connell) – Classic Movie Review 8453
Writer-director James Clavell’s ambitious 1971 adventure movie The Last Valley finds that Michael Caine is somewhat overstretched as The Captain, a ruthless Protestant mercenary leader who brings his band of soldiers to a sleepy 1640s German […]
The Birds, the Bees and the Italians [Signore & signori] *** (1966, Virna Lisi, Gastone Moschin, Alberto Lionello, Gigi Ballista) – Classic Movie Review 7926
The estimable Virna Lisi gives an entertaining turn as Milena Zulian to give a lift to director Pietro Germi’s often unsubtle and overacted but sometimes sharp and amusing Italian La Ronde-style sex farce The Birds, […]
The Scent of Green Papaya [Mùi du du xanh] [L’Odeur de la Papaye Verte] **** (1993, Tran Nu Yên-Khê, Man San Lu, Thi Loc Truong) – Classic Movie Review 5938
Writer-director Tran Anh Hung’s spiritual 1993 Franco-Vietnamese drama about the life of a young girl is the 1994 Oscar-nominated Best Foreign Language Film picture. It is a pure and subtle gem that follows the fortunes […]
Nicholas and Alexandra **** (1971, Michael Jayston, Janet Suzman, Lynne Frederick, Fiona Fullerton, Harry Andrews, Laurence Olivier, Tom Baker, Michael Redgrave, Irene Worth, Jack Hawkins, Alexander Knox) – Classic Movie Review 4,811
Tsars in their eyes Michael Jayston and Janet Suzman grab their chances to shine as the Russian royal pair Tsar Nicholas II and his wife Alexandra in Franklin J Schaffner’s sumptuous double Oscar-winning 1971 film […]
Bitter Rice [Riso Amaro] **** (1949, Silvana Mangano, Raf Vallone, Doris Dowling, Vittorio Gassman) – Classic Movie Review 4768
Co-writer/ director Giuseppe De Santis’s stark, yet blatantly sexual, Italian neo-realist 1949 film study of deprived women workers in Italy’s Po Valley rice fields is famous for conferring stardom on the provocatively sensual 19-year-old Silvana […]