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The Conversation ***** (1974, Gene Hackman, John Cazale, Allen Garfield, Frederic Forrest, Robert Duvall, Cindy Williams, Teri Garr, Harrison Ford) – Classic Movie Review 3,189

Francis Coppola’s tense and suspenseful 1974 thriller film The Conversation won the Cannes Film Festival Palme d’Or. It’s a tour-de-force for Coppola and star Gene Hackman as a paranoid surveillance expert.  Francis Ford Coppola’s tense […]

Dec, 28

Young Frankenstein ***** (1974, Gene Wilder, Peter Boyle, Marty Feldman, Cloris Leachman, Teri Garr, Madeline Kahn, Kenneth Mars, Richard Haydn, Gene Hackman) – Classic Movie Review 1,939

Mel Brooks’s deservedly much-loved 1974 horror comedy film masterpiece Young Frankenstein mixes homage and spoof to perfection. Gene Wilder, Peter Boyle and Marty Feldman are beyond brilliant. Director Mel Brooks’s deservedly much-loved horror comedy masterpiece Young […]

Dec, 09

Klute ***** (1971, Jane Fonda, Donald Sutherland, Charles Cioffi, Roy Scheider, Rita Gam, Nathan George, Dorothy Tristan, Jean Stapleton) – Classic Movie Review 1153

Producer-director Alan J Pakula’s dazzling and brilliantly acted classic 1971 thriller is a real mesmerising humdinger. It’s the first film of Pakula’s unofficial political paranoia trilogy that continued triumphantly with The Parallax View (1974) and […]

Apr, 28

Ghost World **** (2001, Thora Birch, Scarlett Johansson, Steve Buscemi, Brad Renfro, Bob Balaban, Teri Garr) – Classic Movie Review 1047

Co-writer/director Terry Zwigoff’s 2001 movie stars Thora Birch and Scarlett Johansson as two weird American teenagers Enid and Rebecca, who scoff at the world of losers, Satanists and freaks they see around them, providing them […]

Apr, 04

After Hours **** (1985, Griffin Dunne, Rosanna Arquette, Teri Garr, Verna Bloom) – Classic Movie Review 331

Largely forgotten actor Griffin Dunne stars as a computer programmer who finds his casual date with a  young woman exploding in his face. His one rash decision turns immediately into a surreal nightmare of mistaken […]

Oct, 27

Close Encounters of the Third Kind ***** (1977, Richard Dreyfuss, François Truffaut, Teri Garr, Melinda Dillon, Bob Balaban) – Classic Movie Review 306

Once upon a time, in a galaxy far, far away, sci-fi movies were considered out of date and box-office poison. It took the 70s movie brats to bring them back. Take a bow, George Lucas […]

Oct, 21

Tootsie ***** (1982, Dustin Hoffman, Jessica Lange, Teri Garr) – Classic Movie Review 203

‘We’re looking for someone younger.’ ‘We’re looking for someone older.’ ‘We’re looking for someone else.’ With just a delicious bitter-sweet touch of romance and a poignant back flavour, Sydney Pollack’s witty and charming 1982 drag comedy […]

Aug, 30

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