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Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree *** (1966, voices of Sterling Holloway, Junius Matthews, Hal Smith) – Classic Movie Review 8197

Director Wolfgang Reitherman’s 1966 30-minute Walt Disney Productions featurette Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree is a neatly made, appealing, Americanised version of the A A Milne classic, in which Pooh Bear borrows Christopher Robin’s […]

Mar, 04

Sweetie ** (1989, Geneviève Lemon, Karen Colston, Tom Lycos) – Classic Movie Review 6389

Début director Jane Campion’s 1989 Australian tragi-comedy film is the tale of two deeply weird sisters, the phobic Kay (Karen Colston), who is afraid of trees, and the deranged and extroverted Sweetie (Genevieve Lemon). They […]

Dec, 11

A Separate Peace *** (1972, John Heyl, Parker Stevenson, William Roerick) – Classic Movie Review 5972

Larry Pearce’s 1972 coming-of-age drama film A Separate Peace films the 1959 novel by John Knowles that tells the delicate, trail-blazing tale of the special friendship of two schoolboy roomies (John Heyl, Parker Stevenson) in […]

Aug, 26

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn **** (1945, Peggy Ann Garner, James Dunn, Dorothy McGuire Joan Blondell, Lloyd Nolan, Ted Donaldson, James Gleason) – Classic Movie Review 5813

Director Elia Kazan’s warm, meticulous, fully-realised and believable 1945 movie re-creation of life in working-class Brooklyn in the early 1900s before World War One is based on Betty Smith’s novel. It centres on one Irish […]

Jul, 25

Silent Tongue ** (1993, River Phoenix, Richard Harris, Alan Bates, Dermot Mulroney, Sheila Tousey) – Classic Movie Review 4559

Writer-director Sam Shepard’s intelligent, atmospheric, offbeat Western was filmed near Roswell, New Mexico, in spring 1992, but not released until 1994. It stars River Phoenix, Richard Harris, Alan Bates, Dermot Mulroney and Sheila Tousey. It is slow moving, but […]

Oct, 29

The Natural **** (1984, Robert Redford, Robert Duvall, Glenn Close, Kim Basinger and Barbara Hershey, Wilford Brimley, Robert Prosky) – Classic Movie Review 4071

Still in his golden boy era, Robert Redford stars as captain of the all-star actor team that director Barry Levinson has recruited for his 1984 comedic and mystical sports drama fable about a Thirties baseball […]

Jul, 24

All That Heaven Allows **** (1955, Jane Wyman, Rock Hudson, Agnes Moorehead) – Classic Movie Review 3434

Admired cult director Douglas Sirk’s gloriously plush 1955 romantic melodrama All That Heaven Allows stars Jane Wyman as the lovely New England upper-class widow Cary Scott who falls for the down-to-earth, hunky, romantic, much younger […]

Mar, 01

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