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The South [El Sur] **** (1983, Omero Antonutti, Sonsoles Aranguren, Icíar Bollaín, Lola Cardona, Rafaela Aparicio, Aurore Clément) – Classic Movie Review 9180

Icíar Bollaín stars as the 15-year-old Spanish youngster Estrella, who heads south in search of answers to her father’s tragic death, in director Victor Erice’s beautifully handled 1983 tale of childhood innocence, The South [El […]

Dec, 21

Heidi *** (1937, Shirley Temple, Jean Hersholt, Arthur Treacher, Helen Westley) – Classic Movie Review 9099

‘Shirley’s a Little Swiss Miss in the Loveliest Story of Her Career!’ Director Allan Dwan’s 1937 children’s film Heidi is based on the much loved book by Johanna Spyri and stars an ideally cast Shirley […]

Nov, 26

I’ll Do Anything ** (1994, Nick Nolte, Albert Brooks, Whittni Wright, Tracey Ullman, Joely Richardson, Julie Kavner, Ian McKellen) – Classic Movie Review 8448

Writer-director James L Brooks’s 1994 romantic comedy drama I’ll Do Anything went awry and was a troubled production. It was made as a musical until test audiences rejected it, and the last-minute cutting has damaged […]

May, 08

Yellow Earth [Huang Tu Di] **** (1984, Xueqi Wang, Xue Bai, Tan Tuo, Liu Qiang) – Classic Movie Review 7885

Director Chen Kaige’s remarkable and challenging 1984 Chinese film Yellow Earth [Huang Tu Di] is based on the novel by Lan Ke about a communist soldier, Quing Gu (Xueqi Wang), who comes to a tiny […]

Dec, 05

Sea Fury *** (1958, Stanley Baker, Victor McLaglen, Luciana Paluzzi, Grégoire Aslan) – Classic Movie Review 7843

Director Cy Endfield’s 1958 British movie Sea Fury presents a tale of adventure, romance and drama on salvage tug boats sailing between Spain and England. Stanley Baker stars as second-in-command handsome English sailor Abel Hewson […]

Nov, 27

Girl **** (2018, Victor Polster, Arieh Worthalter, Oliver Bodart) – Movie Review

Victor Polster is sensational as the 15-year-old Lara, born in the body of a boy, who dreams of becoming a ballerina, in co-writer/ director Lukas Dhont’s Girl (2018). You could put this another way, Victor Polster is sensational as […]

Oct, 14

Picnic at Hanging Rock **** (1975, Rachel Roberts, Anne-Louise Lambert, Vivean Gray, Dominic Guard, Helen Morse, Jacki Weaver) – Classic Movie Review 7097

‘On St Valentine’s Day in 1900 a party of schoolgirls set out to picnic at Hanging Rock. Some were never to return.’ Miranda: ‘What we see and what we seem are but a dream, a […]

May, 26

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