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Le Ballon Rouge [The Red Balloon] ***** (1956, Pascal Lamorisse, Sabine Lamorisse, Georges Sellier) – Classic Movie Review 7291

Writer-director Albert Lamorisse’s 1956 delightful world-famous short film The Red Balloon (Le Ballon Rouge) is legendary. Lamorisse won the 1957 Oscar for Best Writing, Best Screenplay – Original – the only person ever to have received this […]

Jul, 14

Picnic at Hanging Rock **** (1975, Rachel Roberts, Anne-Louise Lambert, Vivean Gray, Dominic Guard, Helen Morse, Jacki Weaver) – Classic Movie Review 7097

‘On St Valentine’s Day in 1900 a party of schoolgirls set out to picnic at Hanging Rock. Some were never to return.’ Miranda: ‘What we see and what we seem are but a dream, a […]

May, 26

Grease 2 ** (1982, Maxwell Caulfield, Michelle Pfeiffer, Adrian Zmed, Lorna Luft, Eve Arden, Sid Caesar, Connie Stevens, Tab Hunter, Joan Blondell) – Classic Movie Review 6946

The 1978 blockbuster musical hit Grease is followed by director Patricia Birch’s ill-fated Grease 2 in 1982 with Maxwell Caulfield and Michelle Pfeiffer. A few cast members from the original movie such as Dody Goodman, Sid […]

Apr, 19

Music of the Heart *** (1999, Meryl Streep, Angela Bassett, Cloris Leachman, Aidan Quinn) – Classic Movie Review 6517

Director Wes Craven’s heartwarming, inspirational 1999 drama stars Meryl Streep as a teacher who fights her education board to stop cuts and be able to coach underprivileged Harlem kids the violin. Off his usual territory, […]

Jan, 03

The Tree of Wooden Clogs [L’Albero Degli Zoccoli] ***** (1978, Luigi Ornaghi, Francesca Moriggi, Omar Brignoli) – Classic Movie Review 6156

‘We invite you to visit a time and place when life was still a sacred matter.’ Italian movie master Ermanno Olmi writes, photographs, edits and directs this rigorous, realistic and majestic 1978 historical film drama […]

Oct, 30

Invaders from Mars ** (1986, Karen Black, Hunter Carson, Timothy Bottoms, Louise Fletcher, Bud Cort, Jimmy Hunt, Laraine Newman, James Karen) – Classic Movie Review 5996

Director-designer William Cameron Menzies’s much-loved landmark 1953 sci-fi fantasy favourite Invaders from Mars is remade by director Tobe Hooper in 1986 for Menahem Golan and Yoram Globus’s British Cannon studios, with Karen Black, Hunter Carson, Timothy […]

Aug, 29

The Wildcats of St Trinian’s * (1980, Sheila Hancock, Michael Hordern, Joe Melia, Thorley Walters, Rodney Bewes, Maureen Lipman, Julia McKenzie) – Classic Movie Review 5743

Writer-director Frank Launder revived Ronald Searle’s anarchic St Trinian’s schoolgirls for a fifth movie after a 14-year gap in this 1980 British comedy, and seemed to forget to put in the laughs. Launder’s original screenplay […]

Jul, 10

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