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The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex ***** (1939, Bette Davis, Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Nanette Fabray) – Classic Movie Review 3.584

The plush and exciting 1939 romantic historical film The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex is based on Maxwell Anderson’s play Elizabeth the Queen and stars a perfectly paired Bette Davis and Errol Flynn.  Director […]

Apr, 17

Tale of Tales [Il racconto dei racconti] **** (2015, Salma Hayek, Vincent Cassel, Toby Jones, John C Reilly, Shirley Henderson) – Movie Review

Co-writer/director Matteo Garrone’s ravishing and often-exhilarating English-language début brilliantly interweaves three Grimm-style adult fairy tales of kings and queens – and monsters! (1) Salma Hayek plays the Queen of Longtrellis who forfeits the life of her husband the […]

Mar, 10

Mrs Brown **** (1997, Judi Dench, Billy Connolly, Geoffrey Palmer, Gerard Butler, Richard Pasco, Antony Sher, Finty Williams) – Classic Movie Review 2979

In a majestic stroke of casting, Dame Judi Dench and Billy Connolly form a brilliant double act as Queen Victoria and John Brown, her loyal Scottish Highland gillie, summoned down from Balmoral to walk the […]

Oct, 12

Cleopatra **** (1934, Claudette Colbert, Warren William, Henry Wilcoxon) – Classic Movie Review 2413

Producer-director Cecil B DeMille’s incredibly lavish and kitsch 1934 epic version of the Cleopatra story is infectiously extravagant in every way, as befits the ultimate showman he was. He was determined to make a popular […]

Apr, 20

Anne of the Thousand Days **** (1969, Richard Burton, Geneviève Bujold, John Colicos, Anthony Quayle, Irene Papas, Michael Hordern, Katharine Blake) – Classic Movie Review 2366

Director Charles Jarrott’s beautifully crafted 1969 British historical drama Anne of the Thousand Days attracted 10 Academy Award nominations. But in the end it won only a single Oscar – for Best Costume Design (Margaret […]

Apr, 06

Queen Kelly **** (1929, Gloria Swanson, Walter Byron, Seena Owen) – Classic Movie Review 1981

Best known nowadays, if at all, for the excerpt of it seen in her 1950 comeback movie triumph Sunset Blvd., Queen Kelly (1929) is Gloria Swanson’s famous silent film. Alas, it ended up in an […]

Dec, 20

Queen Christina ***** (1933, Greta Garbo, John Gilbert, Ian Keith, Lewis Stone) – Classic Movie Review 1980

  Rouben Mamoulian’s lush and glossily romantic 1933 film Queen Christina is a jewel in the crown of Greta Garbo, then reigning Queen of Hollywood.  ‘I’m tired of being a symbol, Chancellor. I long to […]

Dec, 20

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