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The White Ribbon (2009, Michael Haneke) – Classic Film Review 784

Austrian director Michael (Hidden, Funny Games) Haneke’s chilling – and chilly – 2009 Cannes Film Festival Golden Palm-winning work about abused children in a small God-fearing Protestant village in north Germany just before World War […]

Feb, 01

A Canterbury Tale **** (1944, Eric Portman, Sheila Sim, Dennis Price, John Sweet) – Classic Movie Review 603

Writer-producer-director Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger’s extraordinary 1944 wartime film tells an extremely mysterious and engaging story about a British tank soldier called Peter Gibbs (Dennis Price in his debut), an American Army sergeant (John Sweet) […]

Dec, 31

In the Name of *** (2013, Andrzej Chyra, Mateusz Kosciukiewicz, Maja Ostaszewska, Lukasz Simlat, Tomasz Schuchardt, Maria Maj) – Movie Review

Malgorzata Szumowska, the Polish director of Elles (2011) starring Juliette Binoche and 33 Scenes from Life (2008), boldly goes and confidently tackles a very tricky, long taboo topic with the surprisingly unsettling and subtle In the […]

Sep, 28

How Green Was My Valley ***** (1941, Walter Pidgeon, Maureen O’Hara, Donald Crisp, Roddy McDowall) – Classic Movie Review 71

John Ford’s 1941 black-and-white drama film How Green Was My Valley was nominated for ten Academy Awards, winning five, beating Citizen Kane, Sergeant York and The Maltese Falcon for Best Picture. Director John Ford’s 1941 […]

Jul, 20

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