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Lady in White ***½ (1988, Lukas Haas, Len Cariou, Alex Rocco, Katherine Helmond) – Classic Movie Review 10,972

The eerie 1988 supernatural mystery horror film Lady in White stars Lukas Haas as a schoolboy in 1962 upstate New York mixed up in a series of child murders after he witnesses the ghost of […]

Feb, 28

The Bofors Gun ** (1968, Nicol Williamson, Ian Holm, David Warner, John Thaw, Peter Vaughan, Barry Jackson) – Classic Movie Review 9728

Director Jack Gold’s 1968 British drama The Bofors Gun stars Nicol Williamson, Ian Holm, David Warner, John Thaw, Peter Vaughan, Barry Jackson, Richard O’Callaghan and Donald Gee. Fine acting saves the day for this glum […]

May, 07

Young Törless [Der Junge Törless] **** (1966, Mathieu Carrière, Marian Seidowsky, Bernd Tischer, Barbara Steele) – Classic Movie Review 7497

Writer-director Volker Schlöndorff’s powerful and relevant 1966 Young Törless [Der Junge Törless] is notable as this important German film-maker’s first feature. It is his forceful, assured, well-acted version of the classic Robert Musil parable novel […]

Aug, 25

The Terence Davies Trilogy **** (1983, Phillip Mawdsley, Nick Stringer, Valerie Lilley, Terry O’Sullivan, Sheila Raynor, Wilfrid Brambell) – Classic Movie Review 5156

Writer-director Terence Davies’s outstanding first film is an impressive achievement in bleak memoir, cohering satisfyingly, though made up from three autobiographical short films made over a period of six years or so. The anthology film […]

Mar, 15

Tom Brown’s Schooldays *** (1971, Anthony Murphy, Iain Cuthbertson, Simon Fisher-Turner, Richard Morant) – Classic Movie Review 3527

Director Gareth Davies’s 1971 BBC TV mini-series is an acceptable British remake of the 1940 Hollywood movie Tom Brown’s School Days and the 1951 British version Tom Brown’s Schooldays of the famous old story based on […]

Apr, 04

Flirting **** (1991, Noah Taylor, Thandie Newton, Nicole Kidman) – Classic Movie Review 1795

Writer-director John Duigan’s engrossing, beautifully crafted, sharp-witted 1991 coming-of-age tale is set in Australia during the 1960s in the gothic oppressions of an Australian public boarding school for boys, who are at the mercy of […]

Nov, 01

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