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The Trojan Women ** (1971, Katharine Hepburn, Geneviève Bujold, Vanessa Redgrave, Irene Papas) – Classic Movie Review 11,273

Writer/ producer/ director Michael Cacoyannis’s 1971 drama The Trojan Women stars the formidable quartet of women, Katharine Hepburn, Geneviève Bujold, Vanessa Redgrave and Irene Papas. Top quality acting from the four remarkable actresses lifts a […]

Jun, 05

Little Women ** (2019, Saoirse Ronan, Emma Watson, Florence Pugh, Eliza Scanlen, Laura Dern, Meryl Streep) – Movie Review

Little Women (2019) is nominated for six Oscars and five Baftas, but it is an over-earnest, plodding and underwhelming movie, with writer-director Greta Gerwig struggling to make Louisa May Alcott’s novel more ‘modern’ and ‘relevant’ […]

Jan, 14

The Man Who Loved Women ** (1983, Burt Reynolds, Julie Andrews, Kim Basinger, Sela Ward, Marilu Henner, Cynthia Sikes, Jennifer Edwards) – Classic Movie Review 7567

In 1983 it seemed almost inevitable that the project of Americanising François Truffaut’s 1977 French romantic comedy L’Homme Qui Aimait Les Femmes (The Man Who Loved Women) would fall to director Blake Edwards and that he […]

Sep, 13

The Guardians [Les gardiennes] **** (2017, Nathalie Baye, Iris Bry, Laura Smet, Cyril Descours) – Movie Review 

Co-writer/ director Xavier Beauvois’s World War One French countryside epic offers Nathalie Baye a great role as the matriarch of a family farm, where the young menfolk are sent to fight the Germans and the women take […]

Sep, 30

If These Walls Could Talk **** (1996, Demi Moore, Sissy Spacek, Cher, Shirley Knight, Kathleen Keener, Jason London, C C H Pounder, Kevin Cooney) – Classic Movie Review 5032

A marvellous cast is assembled for three sincere, affecting and compelling stories of abortion set in different periods – 1952, 1974 (both directed by Nancy Savoca) and 1996 (directed by Cher) – set in the […]

Feb, 20

The Women ***** (1939, Rosalind Russell, Joan Crawford, Norma Shearer, Paulette Goddard, Joan Fontaine, Ruth Hussey, Virginia Weidler, Mary Boland) – Classic Movie Review 2919

Director George Cukor’s delicious 1939 comedy is a vastly entertaining all-female film of Clare Boothe [Luce]’s risqué hit play about an interconnected group of prospective divorcées waiting at a ranch for their divorce decrees and their […]

Sep, 20

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