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Life Upside Down [La Vie à l’Envers] **** (1964, Charles Denner, Anna Gaylor, Guy Saint-Jean) – Classic Movie Review 9351

Writer-director Alain Jessua’s 1964 black and white drama Life Upside Down [La Vie à l’Envers] stars Charles Denner, who is surprisingly sympathetic in a difficult role as a Paris office worker, real estate agent Jacques […]

Feb, 06

The Getting of Wisdom **** (1977, Susannah Fowle, Julia Blake, Dorothy Bradley, Kay Eklund, John Waters, Hilary Ryan, Barry Humphries) – Classic Movie Review 9350

Director Bruce Beresford’s attractive, episodic 1977 Australian coming-of-age film The Getting of Wisdom about turn-of-the-last-century girls’ school life is taken from an autobiographical novel by Henry Handel (Ethel) Richardson, with an effective screenplay by Eleanor […]

Feb, 05

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

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