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L’Atalante ***** (1934, Dita Parlo, Jean Dasté, Michel Simon, Gilles Margaritis, Louis Lefebvre) – Classic Movie Review 8656

Director Jean Vigo’s 1934 French classic L’Atalante was cut about by its original distributor Gaumont, but the 1991 restored reissue version confirms its reputation as an enchanting romantic, surrealist, poetic cinema milestone, balancing the realism […]

Jun, 29 · in Reviews

Zéro de Conduite [Zero for Conduct] ***** (1933, Jean Dasté, Robert le Flon, Louis Lefebvre, Delphin) – Classic Movie Review 8655

Writer-director Jean Vigo’s brilliantly imaginative, anarchic classic 1933 short feature film Zéro de Conduite [Zero for Conduct] is about the rebellion of three boys in a deeply unpleasant, rigid, repressive French boarding school. Zero for […]

Jun, 29 · in Reviews

A Zed & Two Noughts **** (1985, Brian Deacon, Eric Deacon, Andréa Ferréol, Frances Barber, Jim Davidson) = Classic Movie Review 8654

Director Peter Greenaway’s 1985 film A Zed & Two Noughts is more like a diagram than a narrative, overflowing with symbols and puns, and underpinned by the memorable Michael Nyman soundtrack. A surgeon covets the […]

Jun, 29

The Chalk Garden **** (1964, Deborah Kerr, Hayley Mills, John Mills, Edith Evans, Elizabeth Sellars) – Classic Movie Review 8653

Edith Evans triumphs as old lady Mrs St Maugham, and the witty 1964 British drama film The Chalk Garden is an affecting and appealing experience.  Director Ronald Neame’s gloomy but witty 1964 British drama The […]

Jun, 29

Press for Time ** (1966, Norman Wisdom, Derek Bond, Angela Browne, Derek Francis, Noel Dyson, Peter Jones, David Lodge) – Classic Movie Review 8652

As the punning title of the 1966 Rank Organisation slapstick comedy Press for Time suggests, Norman Wisdom plays a reporter on a local seaside newspaper at Tinmouth, where he has been hidden away by his grandfather, […]

Jun, 28

You Gotta Stay Happy ** (1948, Joan Fontaine, James Stewart, Eddie Albert, Roland Young, Willard Parker, Percy Kilbride, Porter Hall) – Classic Movie Review 8651

‘IT HAPPENS up in the Wild Blue Yonder – it gets WILDER as they get FONDER! ‘ Joan Fontaine stars as Dee Dee Dillwood, who leaves her betrothed Henry Benson (Willard Parker) – her sixth […]

Jun, 28

You Can’t Win ‘Em All ** (1970, Tony Curtis, Charles Bronson, Michèle Mercier, Patrick Magee) – Classic Movie Review 8650

Unlikely co-stars Tony Curtis and Charles Bronson enjoy their roles and their repartee as joking ex-US Army mercenary sparring partners Adam Dyer and Josh Corey, hired by (Grégoire Aslan), in embattled Turkey in the civil […]

Jun, 28

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