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The Lost World **** (1925, Bessie Love, Lewis Stone, Wallace Beery, Lloyd Hughes) – Classic Movie Review 5121

In the first film adaptation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s classic novel, Wallace Beery stars as explorer Professor Challenger, who claims that dinosaurs still rule the Earth in the Amazon. And so, as no one […]

Mar, 08

Fortunella *** (1958, Giulietta Masina, Alberto Sordi, Paul Douglas, Eduardo De Filippo) – Classic Movie Review 4852

Giulietta Masina stars brightly as Nanda Diotallevi, the so-called heroine ‘Fortunella’, in co-writer/ director Eduardo De Filippo’s delightful 1958 Italian comedy. Alberto Sordi co-stars as Peppino, with Paul Douglas as Professor Golfiero Paganica, Piera Arico as Katya and Carlo Delle Piane as Riccardino. Masina’s husband Federico Fellini also co-writes the amusing screenplay, along […]

Jan, 06

Youth Without Youth **** (2007, Tim Roth, Alexandra Maria Lara, Bruno Ganz) – Classic Movie Review 4736

Writer-director Francis Ford Coppola’s beautiful 2007 film of Romanian author Mircea Eliade’s surreal novella is a melancholy but humorous fantasy mystery romance drama, taking the viewer on a trip through space, time and identity. It stars […]

Dec, 16

Seven Days to Noon **** (1950, Barry Jones, Olive Sloane, André Morell, Joan Hickson, Sheila Manahan, Hugh Cross, Ronald Adam) – Classic Movie Review 4534

Directors John and Roy Boulting’s tense 1950 British suspense thriller tells a concerned and intelligent story about an English atomic scientist Professor Willingdon (Barry Jones) runs away from a research center with an atomic bomb. He […]

Oct, 25

The Crimson Rivers [Les Rivières Pourpres] * (2000, Jean Reno, Vincent Cassel, Nadia Farès, Dominique Sanda, Karim Belkhadra, Jean-Pierre Cassel) – Classic Movie Review 4452

The formidable duo of Jean Reno and Vincent Cassel star as Pierre Niemans and Max Kerkerian, a pair of French policemen who are drawn together by a series of grisly murders and a graveyard desecration in Jean-Christophe Grangé’s […]

Oct, 03

The Eiger Sanction * (1975, Clint Eastwood, George Kennedy, Vonetta McGee, Jack Cassidy) – Classic Movie Review 4112

Director-star Clint Eastwood slipped in the picturesque but poor-quality 1975 mountain thriller The Eiger Sanction between Thunderbolt and Lightfoot (1974) and The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976). They are two of his finest movies and this is […]

Jul, 31

The Paper Chase ***** (1973, Timothy Bottoms, Lindsay Wagner, John Houseman) – Classic Movie Review 4030

James Bridges’s 1973 drama film The Paper Chase showcases legendary film producer John Houseman’s finest hour as an actor, in a role that brought him an Oscar. Writer-director James Bridges’s 1973 American comedy-drama film The Paper […]

Jul, 16

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