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Gertrud **** (1964, Nina Pens Rode, Bendt Rothe, Baard Owe, Ebbe Rode) – Classic Movie Review 10,813

Gertrud: ‘The man I’m with must be completely mine. I must come before everything. I don’t want to be an occasional plaything.’ Writer-director Carl Theodor Dreyer’s 1964 Danish black and white classic film Gertrud is […]

Jan, 21

Cela S’Appelle l’Aurore [That Is the Dawn] *** (1956, Georges Marchal, Lucia Bosè, Julien Bertheau, Giani Esposito) – Classic Movie Review 10,684

Director Luis Buñuel’s 1956 French-Italian film Cela S’Appelle l’Aurore [That Is the Dawn] is a rather straightforward sentimental love story melodrama with just the odd touch of the moral issues and no surrealism from Buñuel […]

Dec, 19

The Shiralee **** (1957, Peter Finch, Dana Wilson, Elizabeth Sellars) – Classic Movie Review 9656

Director Leslie Norman’s 1957 British Australian Western film The Shiralee is produced by Michael Balcon, made by Ealing Studios, and stars Peter Finch, Dana Wilson and Elizabeth Sellars. It is based on the debut full-length […]

Apr, 20

Rabbit, Run ** (1970, James Caan, Anjanette Comer, Carrie Snodgress, Arthur Hill, Jack Albertson, Melodie Johnson, Henry Jones) – Classic Movie Review 8,729

John Updike’s tremendous 1960 novel translates poorly to the screen in Jack Smight’s often intriguing, but ultimately unexciting 1970 movie Rabbit, Run. James Caan stars as ‘Rabbit’ Angstrom. American author John Updike’s tremendous 1960 novel […]

Jul, 18

The Wife **** (2018, Glenn Close, Jonathan Pryce, Christian Slater, Elizabeth McGovern, Max Irons) – Movie Review

Swedish director Björn Runge’s 2018 The Wife is a hugely engaging and engrossing drama as Joan Castleman (Glenn Close) the wife of the title questions her life choices as she travels to Stockholm with her writer […]

Sep, 25

Sea Wife ** (1957, Joan Collins, Richard Burton, Basil Sydney, Cy Grant) – Classic Movie Review 7318

‘One of the Most Challenging Stories of Faith Ever Told!’ Well, that was the plan, but things did not quite turn out like that. Director Bob McNaught’s 1957 British romantic drama Sea Wife stars Richard […]

Jul, 20

That Good Night *** (2017, John Hurt, Sofia Helin, Max Brown, Charles Dance, Erin Richards) – Movie Review

So very, very sad. John Hurt is lovely, but it is almost unbearable to watch a dying man play a dying man. That Good Night is so very, very sad. John Hurt is lovely in […]

May, 16

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