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Nazarín **** (1959, Francisco Rabal, Marga López, Rita Macedo) – Classic Movie Review 11,369

Director Luis Buñuel’s powerful and darkly surreal 1959 black and white Mexican satirical drama Nazarín stars Francisco Rabal as Catholic priest Father Nazario, who is despised when he wanders among the poor in the footsteps […]

Jul, 05

Brideshead Revisited ***** (1981, Jeremy Irons, Anthony Andrews, Diana Quick, Claire Bloom, Laurence Olivier, John Gielgud) – Classic Movie Review 9289

Directors Charles Sturridge and Michael Lindsay-Hogg’s monumental and magnificent 1981 Brideshead Revisited is Granada Television’s sumptuous adaptation of Evelyn Waugh’s novel about England’s decadent and declining upper-class between the world wars, made in 11 episodes. […]

Jan, 22

Lucky **** (2017, Harry Dean Stanton, David Lynch, Ron Livingston, Ed Begley, Tom Skerritt, James Darren) – Movie Review

The legendary star character actor Harry Dean Stanton stars in director John Carroll Lynch’s splendidly quirky 2017 bitter-sweet comedy drama as 90-year-old atheist Lucky, a no-messing US Navy veteran living successfully alone in an oddball […]

Sep, 15

Winter Light [Nattvardsgästerna] [The Communicants] ***** (1963, Max von Sydow, Ingrid Thulin, Gunnar Björnstrand, Gunnel Lindblom, Allan Edwall) – Classic Movie Review 4835

The 1963 second, middle part of writer-director Ingmar Bergman’s trilogy on religious faith, Winter Light [Nattvardsgästerna], stars several of his finest interpreters but is by far the starkest and most difficult of the three. It […]

Jan, 02

Love Story *** (1970, Ali MacGraw, Ryan O’Neal, John Marley, Ray Milland) – Classic Movie Review 4,193

Ryan O’Neal was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor and the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama for the 1970 romantic drama film Love Story. The success of Easy […]

Aug, 18

Léon Morin, Priest [Léon Morin, prêtre] ****½ (1961, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Emmanuelle Riva, Irène Tunc) – Classic Movie Review 3798

In the Occupied French provincial town of Saint Bernard during World War Two, a young woman, Barny Sangredin (Emmanuelle Riva), a communist-supporting widow with a little daughter Christine (Irène Tunc), falls in love with a priest, Léon […]

Jun, 04

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