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A Royal Scandal *** (1945, Tallulah Bankhead, Charles Coburn, Anne Baxter, William Eythe, Vincent Price, Mischa Auer, Sig Ruman) – Classic Movie Review 8208

Director Otto Preminger’s lush 1945 black and white costume drama A Royal Scandal [Czarina], with more than a few splashes of humour, stars Tallulah Bankhead as 18th century Russian queen Catherine the Great who shows […]

Mar, 06

Catherine the Great [The Rise of Catherine the Great] *** (1934, Douglas Fairbanks Jr, Elisabeth Bergner, Flora Robson) – Classic Movie Review 8155

The great style of the German-born Catherine II, Empress of Russia from 1762 to 1796, captures the sympathy of the Russians in producer Alexander Korda’s typically lavish, costly version of the tale, intriguingly scripted from […]

Feb, 20

The Color of Pomegranates [Sayat Nova] ***** (1969, Sofiko Chiaureli, Melkon Alekyan, Vilen Galstyan) – Classic Movie Review 8113

Russian director Sergei Parajanov’s 1969 world cinema classic The Colour of Pomegranates [Sayat Nova] [Tsvet Granata] is his finest hour, an unforgettable feast of colour-drenched tableaux showing the spiritual growth of a boy into manhood. […]

Feb, 10

Taras Bulba *** (1962, Tony Curtis, Yul Brynner, Christine Kaufmann, Sam Wanamaker, Guy Rolfe, George Macready, Brad Dexter, Perry Lopez) – Classic Movie Review 8082

Director J Lee Thompson’s 1962 historical romantic adventure Taras Bulba stars Tony Curtis and Yul Brynner, who gets the title role of Cossack chieftain Taras Bulba, who helps the Poles defeat the Turks in the […]

Feb, 01

Strike [Stachka] **** (1925, Grigoriy Aleksandrov, Maksim Shtraukh, Mikhail Gomorov) – Classic Movie Review 7471

After several years of working in experimental theatre, the great Russian director Sergei M Eisenstein made a dazzling cinema début with this forceful 1925 evocation of a strike by oppressed Russian factory workers in the pre-revolutionary […]

Aug, 19

Police Academy 7: Mission to Moscow * (1994, George Gaynes, Michael Winslow, David Graf, Leslie Easterbrook, G W Bailey, Ron Perlman, Christopher Lee, Charlie Schlatter, Claire Forlani, Richard Israel) – Classic Movie Review 6945

‘Kicking buttski. Making you laughski. The Academy is backski!’ Oh so naffoffski! After a happy respite of five years since Police Academy 6: City Under Siege (1989), the Police Academy returns for its final episode, […]

Apr, 18

The Russia House **½ (1990, Sean Connery, Michelle Pfeiffer, Roy Scheider, James Fox, John Mahoney) – Classic Movie Review 6662

Director Fred Schepisi’s 1990 The Russia House stars Sean Connery, who is back in the USSR as Barley Blair, romancing Russian woman Katya (an unlikely Michelle Pfeiffer), in this intriguing, picturesque and well-acted if clunky and […]

Feb, 08

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