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Persona ***** (1966, Bibi Andersson, Liv Ullmann, Margaretha Krook) – Classic Movie Review 3945

Writer-director Ingmar Bergman’s incredibly intense 1966 psychological drama is set in an isolated beach-house where a beautiful, famous actress Elisabeth Vogler (Liv Ullmann) and her tormented nurse Alma (Bibi Andersson) struggle to come to terms […]

Jun, 28 · in Uncategorized

The Cheyenne Social Club *** (1970, James Stewart, Henry Fonda, Shirley Jones, Sue Anne Langdon) – Classic Movie Review 3944

James Stewart and Henry Fonda star as ageing wandering cowboys who inherit a whorehouse – the Cheyenne Social Club of the title – run by its feisty madame, Jenny (Shirley Jones). Prim and proper John […]

Jun, 28 · in Uncategorized

Fanny by Gaslight [Man of Evil ] *** (1944, Phyllis Calvert, James Mason, Wilfrid Lawson, Stewart Granger, Jean Kent, John Laurie) – Classic Movie Review 3943

James Mason is back in 1944 as the hissable villain that the British public of the day so much enjoyed, relishing being beastly again to Phyllis Calvert – just as he was in The Man […]

Jun, 28

Cheyenne Autumn *** (1964, Richard Widmark, Carroll Baker, Karl Malden, Dolores Del Rio, Sal Mineo, Edward G Robinson, James Stewart) – Classic Movie Review 3,928

Producer-director John Ford is coming towards the end of the trail in his majestic 1964 final Western film Cheyenne Autumn, which gives a sympathetic fictionalized account of the true story of a tribe of Cheyenne […]

Jun, 28

The Chase ***½ (1966, Marlon Brando, Jane Fonda, Robert Redford, E G Marshall, James Fox, Angie Dickinson, Janice Rule, Robert Duvall, Miriam Hopkins) – Classic Movie Review 3,929

Marlon Brando, Jane Fonda and Robert Redford star in the sultry and steamy 1966 Texas small-town melodrama film The Chase. Director Arthur Penn’s sultry and steamy 1966 Texas small-town melodrama The Chase finds both the […]

Jun, 28

Fanny and Alexander [Fanny och Alexander] ***** (1982, Bertil Guve, Pernilla Allwin, Ewa Fröling, Kristina Adolphson, Allan Edwall) – Classic Movie Review 3934

Writer-director director Ingmar Bergman (1918–2007) retired from cinema film-making after this stupendous, four Oscar-winning 1982 swansong to the movies. It is a beautiful, endlessly rewarding, masterly and sumptuous family saga, full of telling references to both his […]

Jun, 28

Sunshine State **½ (2002, Angela Bassett, Edie Falco, Alex Lewis, Timothy Hutton, James McDaniel, Jane Alexander, Bill Cobbs, Ralph Waite, Miguel Ferrer, Mary Steenburgen) – Classic Movie Review 3942

Angela Bassett and Edie Falco star as actress Desiree Perry and motel/café owner Marly Temple, two women who join forces to battle greedy Florida real estate developers, in writer-director John Sayles’s well-acted and intriguing but complicated, overlong […]

Jun, 28

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