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True Confessions **** (1981, Robert Duvall, Robert De Niro, Charles Durning) – Classic Movie Review 5811

Director Ulu Grosbard’s fully-fleshed-out, stimulating and intelligent 1981 thriller is adapted from John Gregory Dunne’s novel about a Forties detective bent on solving the brutal murder case of a young prostitute, in a trail that […]

Jul, 25

To Rome with Love *** (2012, Woody Allen, Penélope Cruz, Jesse Eisenberg, Ellen Page, Roberto Benigni, Alec Baldwin, Greta Gerwig, Judy Davis) – Classic Movie Review 5791

Writer-director Woody Allen’s trip to Rome produces a very odd and very silly, though weirdly likeable and sometimes very amusing, multi-stranded romantic comedy. It gives the impression of being dashed off in a hurry to […]

Jul, 19

Belle de Jour ***** (1967, Catherine Deneuve, Jean Sorel, Michel Piccoli, Geneviève Page, Pierre Clémenti) – Classic Movie Review 5658

Co-writer/ director Luis Buñuel and screen-writer Jean-Claude Carrière rework the novel by Joseph Kessel and deliver one of Buñuel’s undoubted masterwork movies in this sleek and provocative 1967 drama. Catherine Deneuve is on dazzling form […]

Jun, 24

The White Sheikh [Lo Sceicco Bianco] **** (1952, Alberto Sordi, Brunella Bovo, Leopoldo Trieste, Giulietta Masina) – Classic Movie Review 5510

This early Federico Fellini 1952 movie, his first as writer and sole director (after jointly filming 1951’s Lights of Variety), is an extremely eye-catching and highly diverting triumph. It focuses on a Rome honeymooning couple, Wanda […]

May, 27

Wedding Crashers **** (2005, Owen Wilson, Vince Vaughn, Rachel McAdams, Christopher Walken, Isla Fisher, Jane Seymour) – Classic Movie Review 5388

Owen Wilson and Vince Vaughn are at their best as womanising John Beckwith and Jeremy Grey, who sneak into weddings to find partners for short-term flings, but fall out when their carefree days change after John meets […]

May, 03

Handle with Care [Citizens Band] **** (1977, Paul LeMat, Candy Clark, Ann Wedgeworth, Marcia Rodd, Charles Napier) – Classic Movie Review 5364

Writer-director Jonathan Demme’s appealing fourth movie (after Caged Heat, Crazy Mama and Fighting Mad) is this 1977 cult comedy about citizens’ band radio fanatics with names like Spider (Paul LeMat), Papa Thermodyne (Roberts Blossom) and Hot Coffee (Alix Elias). […]

Apr, 29

Miss Sadie Thompson *** (1953, Rita Hayworth, José Ferrer, Aldo Ray) – Classic Movie Review 5342

Director Curtis Bernhardt’s 1953 musical emotional and romantic drama stars sultry Rita Hayworth as Miss Sadie Thompson, the free-spirited, loose-morals heroine of this adaptation of the W Somerset Maugham short story Miss Thompson, later retitled […]

Apr, 24

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