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Baby the Rain Must Fall * (1965, Steve McQueen, Lee Remick, Don Murray) – Classic Movie Review 6,469

Robert Mulligan’s 1965 film Baby the Rain Must Fall is a wet relationships drama starring Lee Remick, Steve McQueen and Don Murray. It is written by Horton Foote from his flop stage play. ‘Don’t call […]

Dec, 25

Sweet Dreams **** (1985, Jessica Lange, Ed Harris, Ann Wedgeworth) – Classic Movie Review 5181

Jessica Lange gives one of her best performances as Fifties country singer Patsy Cline in the extremely well-acted, superior biopic Sweet Dreams (1985). Director Karel Reisz’s 1985 biopic Sweet Dreams stars the highly estimable Jessica […]

Mar, 20

Coal Miner’s Daughter **** (1980, Sissy Spacek, Tommy Lee Jones, Levon Helm, Jennifer Beasley, Jessica Beasley, Phyllis Boyens, Beverly D’Angelo) – Classic Movie Review 5180

Director Michael Apted’s sterling 1980 biopic Coal Miner’s Daughter stars Sissy Spacek, who won the 1981 Best Actress Oscar and the Golden Globe for her role as backwoods girl Loretta Lynn, who becomes a legendary […]

Mar, 20

Nashville ***** (1975, Ned Beatty, Ronee Blakley, Keith Carradine, Geraldine Chaplin, Henry Gibson, Michael Murphy, Lily Tomlin, Geraldine Chaplin, Barbara Harris) – Classic Movie Review 4174

Director Robert Altman’s brilliant, many-faceted 1975 kaleidoscopic satirical musical comedy multi-drama Nashville, centred on the town of Nashville’s fund-raising country music concert, is one of this great director’s finest films. There were five Oscar nominations […]

Aug, 15

W W and the Dixie Dancekings *** (1975, Burt Reynolds, Art Carney, Conny Van Dyke, Jerry Reed, Ned Beatty) – Classic Movie Review 4165

Director John G Avildsen’s pleasantly laid-back 1975 comedy stars Burt Reynolds as sweet-talking, happy-go-lucky US Southern Fifties trickster W W Bright. W W is an old rogue of a crook who makes his living robbing […]

Aug, 13

I Saw the Light *** (2015, Tom Hiddleston, Elizabeth Olsen, Cherry Jones, Bradley Whitford) – Movie Review

Writer-director Marc Abraham’s engrossing biopic of the Fifties country-and-western singer Hank Williams chronicles his rise to fame and its damaging effect on his health and personal life, leading to his early death. To find the […]

Mar, 10

Crazy Heart **** 2009, Jeff Bridges, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Colin Farrell, Robert Duvall) – Classic Movie Review 785

Writer-director Scott Cooper’s sensational 2009 movie feature debut showcases Best Actor Oscar-winning Jeff Bridges, who is at his best for ages and ages as Bad Blake, a boozed-out, burnt-out country singer. Bad Blake gets a second […]

Feb, 01

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