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Pink Floyd: The Wall *** (1982, Bob Geldof, Christine Hargreaves, Bob Hoskins, James Laurenson) – Classic Movie Review 8737

Director Alan Parker’s 1982 film Pink Floyd: The Wall, a visual interpretation of Pink Floyd’s massive-selling concept album, is an overblown, much too literal view of the descent into madness of a rock star called […]

Jul, 20 · in Reviews
The Diary of a Chambermaid *** (1946, Paulette Goddard, Burgess Meredith, Hurd Hatfield, Reginald Owen, Judith Anderson) – Classic Movie Review 8736

The Diary of a Chambermaid *** (1946, Paulette Goddard, Burgess Meredith, Hurd Hatfield, Reginald Owen, Judith Anderson) – Classic Movie Review 8736

Jean Renoir’s 1946 Hollywood version of Octave Mirbeau’s bourgeois-knocking novel about a grasping chambermaid hovers uncertainly between burlesque and tragedy but gives the performers the eagerly grabbed chance for a field day of brio acting. […]

Jul, 20 · in Reviews

Diary of a Madman *** (1963, Vincent Price, Nancy Kovack, Chris Warfield, Stephen Roberts, Elaine Devry, Ian Wolfe) – Classic Movie Review 8735

An evil spirit called the Horla (voice of Joseph Ruskin) possesses 19th-century French judge and sculptor Magistrate Simon Cordier (played by Vincent Price), who graduates from killing his pet canary to his model Odette Mallotte […]

Jul, 19

Diary of a Country Priest [Journal d’un Curé de Campagne] ***** (1951, Claude Laydu, Nicole Ladmiral, Jean Riveyre) – Classic Movie Review 8734

Writer-director Robert Bresson’s austere, hauntingly beautiful 1950 French black and white film Diary of a Country Priest [Journal d’un Curé de Campagne] tells the tale of a lonely young priest, the Curé de Ambricourt (Claude […]

Jul, 19

Diary of a Lost Girl [Tagebuch einer Verlorenen] ***** (1929, Louise Brooks, André Roanne, Josef Rovenský, Fritz Rasp) – Classic Movie Review 8733

Director Georg Wilhelm Pabst’s deservedly much admired German late-period silent cult favourite 1929 Diary of a Lost Girl [Das Tagebuch einer Verlorenen] stars Louise Brooks as a sweet young rich gal Thymiane, who goes downhill […]

Jul, 19

Docteur Petiot [Dr Petiot] **** (1990, Michel Serrault, Pierre Romans, Bérangère Bonvoisin) – Classic Movie Review 8732

This 1990 biographical crime drama film Dr Petiot is directed with immense vigour and confidence by director Christian de Chalonge, who conjures up stylised and beautifully photographed images, lensed by cinematographer Patrick Blossier. The intense […]

Jul, 19

The Dock Brief [Trial and Error] *** (1962, Peter Sellers, Richard Attenborough, Beryl Reid, David Lodge, Frank Pettingell) – Classic Movie Review 8731

John Mortimer’s witty one-act radio, then theatre play about an accused man named Fowle (Richard Attenborough), who is freed of murdering his wife because of his bungling barrister Morgenhall (Peter Sellers), makes a so-so film […]

Jul, 18

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