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Posts Tagged "Palme d’Or"

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Marty ***** (1955, Ernest Borgnine, Betsy Blair, Esther Minciotti) – Classic Movie Review 5050

Director Delbert Mann’s simple, kind-hearted and affecting 1955 drama triumphed at the 1956 Academy Awards, winning four of the most important Oscars, including Best Picture for producer Harold Hecht and Best Actor for Ernest Borgnine. Borgnine […]

Feb, 23

The Pianist ***** (2001, Adrien Brody, Thomas Kretschmann, Frank Finlay) – Classic Movie Review 308

The Pianist produced the two main shocks at the 2003 Oscars when outsiders Adrien Brody won the Best Actor and Roman Polanski the Best Director awards, with Ronald Harwood the deserved third winner for Best […]

Oct, 21

The Third Man ***** (1949, Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Alida Valli, Trevor Howard, Bernard Lee, Wilfrid Hyde White) – Classic Movie Review 170

‘In Italy for 30 years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, and they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherhood and 500 years of democracy […]

Aug, 17

Amour ***** (2012, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Emmanuelle Riva, Isabelle Huppert) – Movie Review

Munich-born writer-director Michael Haneke’s film about a married couple in their eighties desperately trying to cope when a stroke suddenly hits the wife one day at breakfast, leaving her speechless and partly paralysed, is a […]

Aug, 13

If . . . ***** (1968, Malcolm McDowell, David Wood, Richard Warwick, Christine Noonan, Robert Swann) – Classic Movie Review 91

Come the revolution, ‘which side would you be on’? Director Lindsay Anderson’s sabre-rattling story of the repressive life at an English public school in the late Sixties is satisfyingly potent and incisive. Although set in a […]

Jul, 26

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