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Wild River **** (1960, Montgomery Clift, Lee Remick, Jo Van Fleet, Albert Salmi, Jay C Flippen) – Classic Movie Review 4,052

Elia Kazan’s 1960 drama film Wild River hands a grand role to Jo Van Fleet as the obstinate Alabama matriarch Ella Garth who clashes with 1930s young Tennessee Valley Authority field administrator Chuck Glover (Montgomery […]

Jul, 19 · in Reviews

Julia ***** (1977, Jane Fonda, Vanessa Redgrave, Jason Robards, Maximilian Schell, Hal Holbrook, Rosemary Murphy, Meryl Streep) – Classic Movie Review 4051

Those three fine actors Jane Fonda, Vanessa Redgrave and Jason Robards eagerly grab their chances to shine in director Fred Zinnemann’s handsome 1977 film of author/ playwright Lillian Hellman’s story Pentimento, her memoir of her […]

Jul, 19 · in Reviews

Sphere *** (1998, Dustin Hoffman, Sharon Stone, Samuel L Jackson, Peter Coyote, Liev Schreiber, Queen Latifah) – Classic Movie Review 4050

Director Barry Levinson’s 1998 movie of the Michael Crichton novel is a thoughtful and intelligent deep-sea sci-fi saga, in which navy divers discover an object half-a-mile long – a spaceship – under 300 years’ worth of coral growth 1000 […]

Jul, 19

Splendor **** (1989, Marcello Mastroianni, Massimo Troisi, Marina Vlady) – Classic Movie Review 4048

Italian writer-director Ettore Scola’s affectingly nostalgic 1989 salute to the cinema is as good and glorious as the much more lauded Cinema Paradiso (1988). Marcello Mastroianni is splendid as Jordan, the owner and manager of the […]

Jul, 19

Splendor in the Grass **** (1961, Natalie Wood, Warren Beatty, Pat Hingle, Audrey Christie, Barbara Loden, Zohra Lampert, Sandy Dennis, Phyllis Diller, Gary Lockwood) – Classic Movie Review 4049

William Inge won the 1962 Oscar for his Best Story and Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen for Splendor in the Grass (1961), this original 1961 tale about adolescent sweethearts whose lives are shattered when their […]

Jul, 19

Splendor *** (1999, Kathleen Robertson, Johnathon Schaech, Matt Keeslar, Kelly Macdonald, Eric Mabius) – Classic Movie Review 4047

Kathleen Robertson stars as a mid-20s girl named Veronica who decides to spice up her life by introducing her two boyfriends Abel and Zed (Johnathon Schaech, Matt Keeslar) to each other, creating a harmonious love triangle. […]

Jul, 19

My Son, the Fanatic ***½ (1997, Om Puri, Rachel Griffiths, Akbar Kurtha, Stellan Skarsgård) – Classic Movie Review 4046

Director Udayan Prasad’s 1997 interesting, involving and carefully made drama is based on a novel by Hanif Kureishi, the screen-writer of My Beautiful Laundrette, Sammy and Rosie Get Laid and London Kills Me, who writes […]

Jul, 19

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