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Colonel Redl [Oberst Redl] **** (1985, Klaus Maria Brandauer, Hans Christian Blech, Armin Mueller-Stahl) – Classic Movie Review 9344

Hungarian director István Szabó’s 1985 Colonel Redl [Oberst Redl] [Redl Ezredes] is a startlingly powerful film of a subject already familiar from John Osborne’s stage play A Patriot for Me, with a clever screenplay based […]

Feb, 03

Charly *** (1968, Cliff Robertson, Claire Bloom, Lilia Skala) – Classic Movie Review 9343

Director Ralph Nelson’s 1968 drama Charly stars Cliff Robertson, who swept to triumph as best actor at the 1969 Academy Awards as Charly Gordon, an adult man with a cognitive disability. He is selected by […]

Feb, 03

Days and Nights in the Forest [Aranyer Din Ratri] **** (1970) – Classic Movie Review 9342

Days and Nights in the Forest [Aranyer Din Ratri] (1970) is one of Satyajit Ray’s most delicate and subtle films, following the fortunes of four educated male friends from Calcutta on holiday staying at an […]

Feb, 03

Charulata **** (1964, Soumitra Chatterjee, Madhabi Mukherjee, Shailen Mukherjee) – Classic Movie Review 9341

Writer-director Satyajit Ray’s 1964 black and white Indian film Charulata [The Lonely Wife] is a witty, penetrating tale of passion and a delicate portrait of a middle-class marriage breaking up, set in India in 1879. […]

Feb, 03

Girl Stroke Boy (1971, Joan Greenwood, Michael Hordern, Clive Francis, Peter Straker) – Classic Movie Review 9340

Director Bob Kellett’s 1971 comedy Girl Stroke Boy is an excruciatingly unfunny, ultra-tacky and tasteless ‘adult’ comedy written by the normally tasteful Ned Sherrin and Caryl Brahms, both of whom should have known better. It […]

Feb, 02

Gregory’s Two Girls ** (1999, John Gordon Sinclair, Carly McKinnon, Maria Doyle Kennedy, Dougray Scott, John Murtagh) Classic Movie Review 9339

The beloved 1980 Scottish comedy classic Gregory’s Girl gets a belated sequel in Bill Forsyth’s 1999 romantic comedy Gregory’s 2 Girls [Gregory’s Two Girls], with Gregory (John Gordon Sinclair) now a gangly English teacher, back […]

Feb, 02

Rider on the Rain [Le Passager de la Pluie] *** (1970, Charles Bronson, Marlène Jobert, Annie Cordy, Jill Ireland) – Classic Movie Review 9,314

René Clément’s chilling 1970 French mystery thriller Rider on the Rain [Le Passager de la Pluie] is the film that turned Charles Bronson into a star in Europe. Director René Clément’s 1970 French-Italian mystery thriller […]

Jan, 29

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