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Roadhouse Girl [Marilyn] ** (1953, Maxwell Reed, Sandra Dorne, Leslie Dwyer) – Classic Movie Review 10,863

‘NO ESCAPE… from this kind of woman!’ Writer-director Wolf Rilla’s 1953 noir crime drama Roadhouse Girl [Marilyn] stars Maxwell Reed as Tom Price, the new mechanic at the roadside garage and pub owned by middle-aged […]

Feb, 01

César ***** (1936, Raimu, Pierre Fresnay, Orane Demazis, Fernand Charpin, André Fouché, Alida Rouffé) – Classic Movie Review 6396

Marcel Pagnol wrote the third part of his marvellous Marius trilogy especially for the cinema, and this time he directs the film himself too. It follows Marius (1931) and Fanny (1932). It is slower, longer […]

Dec, 11

Effi Briest **** (1974, Hanna Schygulla, Wolfgang Schenck, Ulli Lommel, Karl-Heinz Böhm) – Classic Movie Review 6183

Writer-producer-director Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s 1974 German gem is based on the novel by Theodor Fontane. These were glory days for Fassbinder. Fassbinder turns this 19th-century tale of the teenaged beauty Effi Briest (Hanna Schygulla) into one of […]

Nov, 03

Winter Sleep ***** (2014, Haluk Bilginer, Melisa Sözen, Demet Akbag) – Movie Review

Winter Sleep arrives in Britain big credentials. It is the winner of the Palme d’Or at Cannes in 2014 and the official submission of Turkey to the best foreign language film category of the 87th […]

Nov, 15

The Secret Agent ** (1996, Bob Hoskins, Patricia Arquette, Christian Bale) – Classic Movie Review 1550

Writer-director Christopher Hampton’s 1996 new version of the 1907 Joseph Conrad classic novel is only interesting as an honourable failure and to compare it with the book and Alfred Hitchcock’s vintage version of it under […]

Aug, 16

Lost in Translation ****½ (2003, Bill Murray, Scarlett Johansson, Giovanni Ribisi) – Classic Movie Review 666

Perhaps never better, Bill Murray put in his bid in 2003 for an Oscar as a fading, ageing American movie star who goes to Tokyo to do a whisky ad. Lonely in his hotel, he […]

Jan, 10

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