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Mildred Pierce ***** (1945, Joan Crawford, Jack Carson, Zachary Scott, Eve Arden, Ann Blyth, Bruce Bennett)) – Classic Movie Review 375

Director Michael Curtiz’s 1945 classic Mildred Pierce is both a great ‘Woman’s Picture’ melodrama as well as a great film noir thriller. Triumphantly winning what turned out to be her only Best Actress Oscar, Joan Crawford […]

Nov, 06

Hard Eight **** (1996, Philip Baker Hall, John C Reilly, Gwyneth Paltrow, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Samuel L Jackson) – Classic Movie Review 316

Suspense, wit, atmosphere, sudden death and fine character study are the name of the game in writer-director Paul Thomas Anderson’s superb, stylish, hard-nosed 1996 thriller Hard Eight. Anderson’s feature debut is graced with the performance […]

Oct, 23

Amélie (Le fabuleux destin d’Amélie Poulain] ***** (2001, Audrey Tautou, Mathieu Kassovitz, Rufus) – Classic Movie Review 218

The devastatingly skilled, appealingly gamine Audrey Tautou melts all hearts in this vivacious, quite adorable 2001 French charmer from Jean-Pierre Jeunet, the director of Alien: Resurrection (1997). Tautou, then 25, plays an over-imaginative young Parisian woman, Amélie Poulain, […]

Sep, 04

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