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Ordet [The Word] **** (1955, Henrik Malberg, Emil Hass Christensen, Preben Lerdorff Rye) – Classic Movie Review 10,814

Writer-director Carl Theodor Dreyer’s 1955 black and white classic Danish drama Ordet [The Word] is based on a play by Kaj Munk, a Danish Lutheran priest, first performed in 1932. It follows the lives of […]

Jan, 21

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

Joan of Arc ** (1948, Ingrid Bergman, José Ferrer, George Coulouris, Francis L Sullivan, Gene Lockhart, Ward Bond, John Ireland, Hurd Hatfield, Cecil Kellaway) – Classic Movie Review 4805

Garish spectacle and the authentic playing of stars Ingrid Bergman and José Ferrer (as St Joan and the Dauphin) are the pluses in the 1948 historical biopic Joan of Arc. Director Victor Fleming’s 1948 historical […]

Dec, 22

Lost Souls ** (2001, Winona Ryder, Ben Chaplin, John Hurt, Philip Baker Hall and Elias Koteas) – Classic Movie Review 4364

We know we must be in trouble in 2001 if the world’s fate scarily rests on the tiny narrow shoulders of Winona Ryder, who battles with her baffling miscasting as a religious fanatic convinced that a […]

Sep, 13

To the Wonder ***½ (2012, Ben Affleck, Olga Kurylenko, Javier Bardem) – Classic Movie Review 3850

Roger Ebert’s final film review is of his three and a half star romantic drama from director Terrence Malick and starring Ben Affleck, Olga Kurylenko, Rachel McAdams, and Javier Bardem. It is a heady and haunting mystic-minded meditation […]

Jun, 12

Captive ** (2015, Kate Mara, David Oyelowo, Mimi Rogers, Michael K Williams, Leonor Varela) – Movie Review

Life-affirming, uplifting entertainment has its place but it needs a tougher, grittier, more rigorous, challenging edge. Kate Mara plays real-life single mother drug user Ashley Smith who is held captive in her home by Brian Nichols (David Oyelowo) on […]

Sep, 24

Father Brown [The Detective] **** (1954, Alec Guinness, Joan Greenwood, Peter Finch, Sidney James, Cecil Parker, Bernard Lee, Ernest Thesiger) – Classic Movie Review 2,825

Alec Guinness is on delightful form as G K Chesterton’s priest and amateur detective, who is in Rome on the trail of master crook Flambeau (Peter Finch), in the 1954 British comedy mystery thriller film […]

Aug, 17

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