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Autumn Sonata [Höstsonaten] ***** (1978, Ingrid Bergman, Liv Ullmann, Halvar Björk, Lena Nyman, Gunnar Björnstrand) – Classic Movie Review 4800

  In 1978, writer-producer-director Ingmar Bergman found a surprise backer in Lord Lew Grade’s ITC for his long-awaited teaming with his namesake Ingrid Bergman. At the time British producer Lord Grade was trying to finance […]

Dec, 21

The Gift ***½ (2000, Cate Blanchett, Keanu Reeves, Hilary Swank, Katie Holmes, Greg Kinnear, Michael Jeter, Giovanni Ribisi, Kim Dickens, Gary Cole, Rosemary Harris, J K Simmons) – Classic Movie Review 4792

Keanu Reeves grabs his chance to show his bad side and to do a spot of acting, which he does quite impressively. In this one he plays a really unpleasant piece of work called Donnie […]

Dec, 18

The Train Robbers *** (1973, John Wayne, Ann-Margret, Rod Taylor, Ben Johnson, Bobby Vinton) – Classic Movie Review 4592

Burt Kennedy, the script-writer of Budd Boetticher’s classic Fifties Westerns, wrote and directed this 1973 Western for a rather plump and elderly-looking John Wayne, who, as gunhand Lane, leads a gang taken on by worthy […]

Nov, 05

Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing *** (1955, William Holden, Jennifer Jones, Torin Thatcher, Isobel Elsom, Virginia Gregg, Murray Matheson, Keye Luke) – Classic Movie Review 4567

Director Henry King’s 1955 movie is just the very kind of film they don’t make any more – a plush, lovely looking, well-meaning, impressively crafted escapist movie about a tearful romance between the gorgeous Eurasian […]

Oct, 30

Nowhere to Run *½ (1993, Jean-Claude Van Damme, Rosanna Arquette, Kieran Culkin) – Classic Movie Review 4404

Jean-Claude Van Damme stars as an escaped convict called Sam Gillen hiding out with lovely young widow Clydie Anderson (Arquette) and her little son Mookie (Kieran Culkin, brother of Macaulay) and young daughter Bree (Tiffany Taubman). While Sam […]

Sep, 24

Birth **** (2004, Nicole Kidman, Cameron Bright, Lauren Bacall, Danny Huston, Arliss Howard, Anne Heche, Peter Stormare, Ted Levine) – Classic Movie Review 4359

Young widow Anna (Nicole Kidman) is about to marry her fiancé Joseph (Danny Huston), 10 years after her first husband Sean (Michael Desautels) died of a heart attack. A ten-year-old boy turns up in her swanky New […]

Sep, 13

Lola ***** (1961, Anouk Aimée, Marc Michel, Jacques Harden) – Classic Movie Review 4,303

Anouk Aimée gives an extraordinary performance as an alluring cabaret singer in debut director Jacques Demy’s 1961 French film delight Lola. The then inspired young French New Wave (Nouvelle Vague) director Jacques Demy’s 1961 debut is […]

Sep, 05

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