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Salome’s Last Dance *** (1988, Glenda Jackson, Stratford Johns, Nickolas Grace, Douglas Hodge, Imogen Millais-Scott) – Classic Movie Review 7127

‘NOTORIOUS, SCANDALOUS, WILDE!’ Writer-director Ken Russell takes a walk on the Wilde side and again challenges our good will and his actors’ stamina in his provocative and colourful, sometimes amusing and inventive, sometimes silly and […]

Jun, 06

Salomé **** (1922, Alla Nazimova, Nigel De Brulier, Mitchell Lewis) – Classic Movie Review 7126

Director Charles Bryant’s extravagant black and white 1922 art nouveau silent movie version of Oscar Wilde’s play cost more than $350,000 to make and is outrageously designed by Natacha Rambova, who was clearly influenced by […]

Jun, 06

Simon Magus **** (1999, Noah Taylor, Stuart Townsend, Ian Holm, Rutger Hauer, Sean McGinley) – Classic Movie Review 1788

Writer-director Ben Hopkins’s 1999 film is a sincere, atmospheric and enjoyable if occasionally slightly plodding Jewish fable of old Silesia. There the lanky simpleton Simon Magus – nicely played by Noah Taylor (the youth from […]

Oct, 29

O Brother, Where Art Thou? **** (2000, George Clooney, John Turturro, Tim Blake Nelson, John Goodman, Holly Hunter, Charles Durning) – Classic Movie Review 473

The Coen Brothers Joel and Ethan direct George Clooney in 2000 in a patchy but posh and stylish and often very entertaining comedy drama. A super Clooney sings, does a Southern accent, plays comedy and […]

Dec, 05

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