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La Ronde *** (1964, Marie Dubois, Claude Giraud, Anna Karina, Jean-Claude Brialy, Jane Fonda, Maurice Ronet, Catherine Spaak, Francine Bergé) – Classic Movie Review 4306

Director Roger Vadim’s starry and atmospheric 1964 film adaptation of the classic Arthur Schnitzler play, now re-set in Paris during the summer of 1914, tells the same ten circular thematically interlinked tales of love and seduction. […]

Sep, 05

Dinner Rush **** (2000, Danny Aiello, Edoardo Ballerini, Sandra Bernhard, John Corbett, Mike McGlone, Vivian Wu, Summer Phoenix) – Classic Movie Review 4237

Take your places, please, for this delicious, subtle banquet of a meal. The posh venue is Italian restaurant proprietor and bookmaker Louis Cropa (Danny Aiello)’s New York Italian diner. It’s a big night and the food is […]

Aug, 25

Simply Irresistible *** (1999, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Sean Patrick Flanery, Patricia Clarkson) – Classic Movie Review 4172

Sarah Michelle Gellar is simply irresistible in director Mark Tarlov’s 1999 surprise comedy flop, a sweet, positive, life-affirming charmer, very nicely written by Judith Roberts, Tarlov’s wife. It is delicate and whismical, and highly romantic, this […]

Aug, 14

London Kills Me **½ (1991, Justin Chadwick, Steven Mackintosh, Emer McCourt, Roshan Seth, Fiona Shaw, Brad Dourif, Tony Hargarth, Naveen Andrews, Stevan Rimkus) – Classic Movie Review 4148

Screeen-writer/ director Hanif Kureishi’s 1991 drama stars Justin Chadwick as a poverty-stricken, homeless, shoeless youth of 20 called Clint Eastwood, who is unable to find a job but wants to get of London’s drug world by taking a job as […]

Aug, 09

Help! ***** (1965, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, Ringo Starr, Leo McKern, Eleanor Bron, Victor Spinetti, Roy Kinnear) – Classic Movie Review 3951

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Immediately following up his hit A Hard Day’s Night (1963), director Richard Lester again captures much of the Beatles’ charisma and works on exploring something of what makes them tick in this funny, freewheeling, fanciful musical […]

Jun, 30

One More Kiss *** (1999, Valerie Edmond, Gerard Butler, James Cosmo, Valerie Gogan) – Classic Movie Review 3794

Valerie Edmond stars as Sarah Hopson who swaps her meaningless New York lifestyle for the Scottish Borders to look for her childhood sweetheart Sam (Gerard Butler), who now runs a restaurant. Sam’s life collapsed the day Sarah left but now she’s […]

Jun, 03

The Harvey Girls **** (1946, Judy Garland, Ray Bolger, John Hodiak, Virginia O’Brien, Angela Lansbury, Marjorie Main, Preston Foster) – Classic Movie Review 3606

Director George Sidney’s delightful 1946 MGM period Western musical sees Judy Garland on her best form (as Susan Bradley) performing great numbers, including the brilliant Oscar-winning Best Original Song ‘On the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa […]

Apr, 23

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