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The Virgin Queen *** (1955, Bette Davis, Richard Todd, Joan Collins, Herbert Marshall, Jay Robinson, Dan O’Herlihy) – Classic Movie Review 7708
Director Henry Koster’s 1955 historical drama The Virgin Queen provides a useful showcase for Bette Davis to re-create her superb Queen Elizabeth I characterisation from the classic The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex (1939), […]
Young Bess *** (1953, Jean Simmons, Stewart Granger, Deborah Kerr, Charles Laughton, Kathleen Byron, Kay Walsh, Guy Rolfe, Cecil Kellaway) – Classic Movie Review 7424
MGM’s well-crafted 1953 Technicolor historical biopic film Young Bess stars Jean Simmons as the young Queen Elizabeth I, Stewart Granger as her suitor, Charles Laughton as Henry VIII, and Deborah Kerr as Catherine Parr. Director […]
Fire Over England **** (1937, Laurence Olivier, Flora Robson, Vivien Leigh) – Classic Movie Review 7329
Director William K Howard’s spirited 1937 British romantic adventure Fire Over England brings together screen and real-life lovers Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh together for the first time. Clemence Dane and Sergei Nolbandov’s screenplay is […]
Orlando ****½ (1992, Tilda Swinton, Billy Zane, Quentin Crisp) – Classic Movie Review 5193
Writer-director Sally Potter’s breathtakingly beautiful 1992 film version of Virginia Woolf’s classic 1928 gender-bender novel finds exactly the right star in Tilda Swinton as a pretty young male Elizabethan courtier who turns into a woman […]
Jubilee **** (1978, Jenny Runacre, Nell Campbell, Toyah Willcox, Jordan, Ian Charleson, Karl Johnson, Adam Ant, Neil Kennedy, Jack Birkett, Jayne County, Richard O’Brien) – Classic Movie Review 4989
Co-writer/ director Derek Jarman’s amazing 1978 punk-rock anti-celebration of Queen Elizabeth II’s Jubilee is an original, outrageous, clever report of the state of the British nation in 1977. Jubilee was always a rousing, eye-opening movie, […]
Bill ** (2015, Mathew Baynton, Ben Willbond, Jim Howick, Laurence Rickard, Simon Farnaby, Martha Howe-Douglas) – Movie Review
Mathew Baynton stars as hopeless lute player Bill Shakespeare, who leaves his wife Anne Hathaway (Martha Howe-Douglas) and home to follow his dream to make it big in London as a writer. There are some laughs in […]
Elizabeth **** (1998, Cate Blanchett, Joseph Fiennes, Geoffrey Rush) – Classic Movie Review 1310
Director Shekhar Kapur’s splendid 1998 historical thriller stars Cate Blanchett, ageing and maturing convincingly through a long reign in a scaldingly exciting performance as the steely Queen Elizabeth I, crowned Queen at 25. Winning the […]
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