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L’Age d’Or ***** (1930, Gaston Modot, Lya Lys, Caridad de Laberdesque) – Classic Movie Review 10,939

Director Luis Buñuel’s still provocative, vital and amusing 1930 avant-garde Surrealist masterpiece early work L’Age d’Or [The Golden Age] intends to shock and provoke as it sends up the hypocrisies of organised religion and bourgeois society, […]

Feb, 19

3 Women **** (1977, Shelley Duvall, Sissy Spacek, Janice Rule) – Classic Movie Review 10,471

‘1 woman became 2/2 women became 3/3 women became 1’. Writer-director Robert Altman’s 1977 avant-garde drama film 3 Women is an Ingmar Bergmanesque study of vain old folks’ home worker Millie (Shelley Duvall), new mysterious teenage helper […]

Oct, 27

The Night of San Lorenzo [La Notte di San Lorenzo] **** (1982, Omero Antonutti, Margarita Lozano, Claudio Bigagli) – Classic Movie Review 10,465

Italians try to survive as the Americans liberate a small town in Tuscany from the Germans in August 1944, in the moving 1981 Italian wartime drama film The Night of San Lorenzo from Paolo Taviani […]

Oct, 27

Partner ** (1968, Pierre Clémenti, Stefania Sandrelli, Tina Aumont, Sergio Tofano) – Classic Movie Review 10,423

Director Bernardo Bertolucci’s 1968 Italian drama Partner stars Pierre Clémenti as introverted Giacobbe, who invents a doppelganger to win in life – and especially to win the hand of the lovely Clara (Stefania Sandrelli). Alas, […]

Oct, 16

Hour of the Wolf [Vargtimmen] **** (1968, Max von Sydow, Liv Ullmann, Gertrud Fridh, Erland Josephson, Ingrid Thulin) – Classic Movie Review 9922

Director Ingmar Bergman draws on his own recurring nightmares for his troubling 1968 Swedish psychological horror film Hour of the Wolf [Vargtimmen], which stars Max von Sydow and Liv Ullmann in a story about the […]

Jun, 16

Santa Sangre ** (1989, Axel Jodorowsky, Blanca Guerra, Guy Stockwell, Adan Jodorowsky, Thelma Tixou) – Classic Movie Review 9844

Director Alejandro Jodorowsky’s 1989 Mexican horror thriller/ drama Santa Sangre is a highly offensive shocker masquerading as an art film, though nevertheless it is admired for its dementedly weird ideas and crazily surreal visuals. Axel […]

May, 30

Fear X *** (2003, John Turturro, Deborah Kara Unger, James Remar, Stephen Eric McIntyre) – Classic Movie Review 9408

Director Nicolas Winding Refn’s 2003 surreal neo noir thriller Fear X stars John Turturro, Deborah Kara Unger and James Remar. Refn co-writes the screenplay with Hubert Selby Jr, who wrote the books of Last Exit […]

Feb, 22

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