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The Testament of Dr Mabuse [Das Testament des Dr Mabuse] **** (1933, Rudolf Klein-Rogge, Otto Wernicke, Gustav Diessl) – Classic Movie Review 2987

In 1933 German meister director Fritz Lang brings back his evil crime baron Dr Mabuse (Rudolf Klein-Rogge) from his 1922 silent classic Doctor Mabuse the Gambler [Dr Mabuse, King of Crime] and creates a meisterwerk. It […]

Oct, 17 · in Uncategorized

Le sang d’un poète [The Blood of a Poet] ***** (1932, Enrique Rivero, Lee Miller, Pauline Carton, Jean Desbordes) – Classic Movie Review 2986

Poet-film director Jean Cocteau’s standard-setting first film from 1932 is a dazzling series of enigmatic surrealist images conjured up as much to delight as to bewilder. As statues come alive and an executed revolutionary revives, […]

Oct, 17 · in Uncategorized

Le Testament d’Orphée [Testament of Orpheus] **** (1959, Jean Cocteau, Edouard Dermithe, Maria Casarès, François Périer, Henri Crémieux, Yul Brynner, Jean Marais, Claudine Auger) – Classic Movie Review 2985

Writer-director Jean Cocteau’s 1959 last film and movie final testament takes up where his first film Le Sang d’un Poète [Blood of a Poet] (1931) and arguably his most famous film Orphée (1950) left off. […]

Oct, 17

Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life **** (1983, Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Eric Idle, Michael Palin, Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones) – Classic Movie Review 2984

Terry Jones again directs and stars in the slightly less brilliant fourth Monty Python movie Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life in 1983. And, rather than something completely different, it is of course again written […]

Oct, 16

Monty Python’s Life of Brian ***** (1979, Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Eric Idle, Michael Palin, Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones) – Classic Movie Review 2,983

Director Terry Jones’s daring 1979 Monty Python movie Monty Python’s Life of Brian is a controversial triumph and probably sees the Pythons at their peak. This inspired and iconic religious spoof is of course again […]

Oct, 16

Monty Python and the Holy Grail ***** (1975, Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Eric Idle, Michael Palin, Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones) – Classic Movie Review 2982

Directors Terry Gilliam and Terry Jones’s inspired and iconic 1975 Monty Python movie is their hilarious, nonsense version of the Arthurian legend. It is of course written by and stars Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Eric Idle, […]

Oct, 16

Carol **** (2015, Cate Blanchett, Rooney Mara, Sarah Paulson, Kyle Chandler) – Movie Review

Todd Haynes revisits, sort of, the scene of his 2002 triumph, Far from Heaven, by filming Patricia Highsmith’s lesbian love story Carol. Haynes casts Cate Blanchett, one of the stars of his last movie I’m […]

Oct, 15

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