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Night Sun [Il Sole anche di Notte] **** (1990, Julian Sands, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Nastassja Kinski, Rüdiger Vogler, Patricia Millardet, Massimo Bonetti) – Classic Movie Review 10,463

Writers-directors Paolo Taviani and Vittorio Taviani’s 1990 Italian art cinema drama Night Sun [Il Sole anche di Notte] stars Julian Sands, Charlotte Gainsbourg and Nastassja Kinski. [Spoiler alert] In 18th-century Italy, young nobleman Baron Sergio […]

Oct, 26

King Lear **** (1983, Laurence Olivier, Colin Blakely, Leo McKern, Robert Lindsay) – Classic Movie Review 10,164

Director Michael Elliott’s 1983 TV movie King Lear stars Laurence Olivier in his last great gasp as the Shakespearean royal father, more sinned against than sinning, a role he was so desperate to record that […]

Aug, 11

King Lear [Korol Lir] ** (1970, Jüri Järvet, Elza Radzina, Galina Volchek) – Classic Movie Review 10,162

Director Grigoriy Kozintsev’s 1970 Russian film King Lear [Korol Lir] stars Jüri Järvet as a modest, one-note (bad-tempered) Lear leading a number of unstriking performances in this disappointment from the director of the great Russian […]

Aug, 11

King Lear **** (1970, Paul Scofield, Irene Worth, Cyril Cusack, Jack MacGowran, Alan Webb, Patrick Magee) – Classic Movie Review 10,160

‘Know that we have divided In three our kingdom: and ’tis our fast intent To shake all cares and business from our age; Conferring them on younger strengths, while we Unburthen’d crawl toward death.’ Well […]

Aug, 10

The Lady and the Bandit ** (1951, Louis Hayward, Patricia Medina, Suzanne Dalbert, Tom Tully, Alan Mowbray, John Williams) – Classic Movie Review 9378

Director Ralph Murphy’s 1951 black and white adventure The Lady and the Bandit [Dick Turpin’s Ride] stars Louis Hayward, who is reasonably well cast as highwayman Dick Turpin, in this jolly, if not brilliant, American-made, […]

Feb, 13

The Lion King *** (2019, voices of Donald Glover, Beyoncé, Seth Rogen) – Movie Review

The lion’s share of praise for The Lion King (2019) must go to its incredible technical achievement. It looks and sounds truly amazing. So huge praise and kudos go to the visual effects and animator […]

Jul, 21

Die Nibelungen **** (1924, Paul Richter, Margarete Schön, Hanna Ralph, Theodor Loos, Gertrud Arnold) – Classic Movie Review 8703

Director Fritz Lang’s 1924 German silent classic The Nibelungen [Die Nibelungen] stars Paul Richter as Siegfried, who marries the princess of Burgundy, Kriemhild (Margarete Schön) but Queen Brunhilde (Hanna Ralph) plans his murder. Lang’s beautifully […]

Jul, 13

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