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Faces Places [Visages villages] **** (2017, Agnès Varda, JR) – Movie Review

French New Wave film director Agnes Varda and young idealist photographer/ mural artist JR journey in a van through rural France, taking pictures and creating art, while forming a devoted unlikely if friendship. The van […]

Dec, 10

These Thousand Hills *** (1959, Don Murray, Richard Egan, Lee Remick, Patricia Owens, Stuart Whitman, Albert Dekker) – Classic Movie Review 7799

Director Richard Fleischer’s punchy, intelligent 1958 Western These Thousand Hills is pumped full of admirable acting, robust action, cute romance and thoughtful drama, even if it fails to live up to the manic intensity of Pulitzer-prize […]

Nov, 17

Parting Shots *** (1998, Chris Rea, Felicity Kendal, John Cleese, Bob Hoskins, Oliver Reed, Diana Rigg, Ben Kingsley, Joanna Lumley, Gareth Hunt) – Classic Movie Review 7771

Writer/ producer/ director Michael Winner gathers his friends around him for his reasonably entertaining 1998 black comedy film Parting Shots, which proved to be his parting shot as his final movie. Chris Rea stars as failed […]

Nov, 10

Live a Little, Love a Little ** (1968, Elvis Presley, Michele Carey, Don Porter, Rudy Valee, Dick Sargent, Sterling Holloway, Celeste Yarnall) – Classic Movie Review 7655

Director Norman Taurog’s 1968 Live a Little, Love a Little is an easy-going, good-natured, very old-fashioned musical-comedy vehicle for Elvis Presley. It was way out of step with the times back in 1968 but seems […]

Oct, 09

Quai des Orfèvres **** (1947, Louis Jouvet, Bernard Blier, Suzy Delair, Pierre Larquey, Simone Renant, Charles Dullin) – Classic Movie Review 6642

Co-writer/ director Henri-Georges Clouzot’s beautifully acted and exquisitely crafted 1947 French policier thriller Quai des Orfrèvres is outstanding even in a genre the French regularly do so well. In Paris’s equivalent to Scotland Yard, the 36, […]

Feb, 02

Photographing Fairies ** (1997, Toby Stephens, Ben Kingsley, Edward Hardwicke, Frances Barber, Ben Kingsley, Emily Woof, Philip Davis) – Classic Movie Review 6289

A love story that extends into the next world, a spot of sleuthing with Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Edward Hardwicke), and Steven Spielberg-style supernatural creatures flying around the English countryside. This 1997 British fantasy mystery […]

Nov, 22

The People that Time Forgot ** (1977, Doug McClure, Patrick Wayne, Sarah Douglas) – Classic Movie Review 6223

Doug McClure returns as Bowen Tyler in co-writer/ director Kevin Connor’s 1977 sequel to their 1974 Amicus hit The Land that Time Forgot. It is a forgettable, dated-looking affair about Major Ben McBride (Patrick Wayne)’s […]

Nov, 10

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