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Boudu Sauvé des Eaux [Boudu Saved from Drowning] ***** (1932, Michel Simon, Charles Grandval, Marcelle Hainia, Sévérine Lerczinska) – Classic Movie Review 8627

Writer-director Jean Renoir’s famed 1932 French classic Boudu Sauvé des Eaux [Boudu Saved from Drowning] tells a story about the grubby tramp (Michel Simon) who has lost his dog and didn’t want to be saved […]

Jun, 22

Christ Stopped at Eboli [Cristo si è fermato a Eboli] ***** (1979, Gian Maria Volontè, Paolo Bonacelli, Alain Cuny, Léa Massari, Irene Papas) – Classic Movie Review 8605

Director Francesco Rosi’s engrossing 1979 drama Christ Stopped at Eboli [Cristo si è fermato a Eboli] stars Gian Maria Volontè as Italian doctor Carlo Levi, who in 1935 is exiled for his anti-fascist views to […]

Jun, 18

Tarzan Finds a Son! *** (1939, Johnny Weissmuller, Maureen O’Sullivan, Johnny Sheffield) – Classic Movie Review 8053

Director Richard Thorpe’s 1939 jungle adventure Tarzan Finds a Son! is spirited stuff, shot in Florida. Johnny Weissmuller and Maureen O’Sullivan return as Tarzan and Jane, who find an abandoned child (Johnny Sheffield), whose parents […]

Jan, 23

Reunion **** (1989, Jason Robards, Christien Anholt, Samuel West) – Classic Movie Review 6804

Reunion is the haunting story of the broken ‘enchanted friendship’ of two teenage boys of different backgrounds in 1932-33 Germany, with Harold Pinter’s distinguished screenplay adapting Fred Uhlman’s novel. Count Konradin von Lohenburg: ‘I believe in […]

Mar, 14

Bright Young Things * (2003, Michael Sheen, Stephen Campbell Moore, Emily Mortimer, Dan Aykroyd) – Classic Movie Review 6057

Writer-director Stephen Fry fumbles his 2003 film adaptation of Evelyn Waugh’s superb satirical novel Vile Bodies in his directing debut, feebly sending up the British press and Thirties posh folk, the Bright Young Things of […]

Oct, 04

A Special Day [Una Giornata Particolare] **** (1977, Marcello Mastroianni, Sophia Loren) – Classic Movie Review 3,286

The 1977 Italian drama A Special Day [Una Giornata Particolare] is a special film, with Marcello Mastroianni superb as a persecuted gay radio announcer who meets a lonely mother (Sophia Loren) in Rome when Adolf […]

Jan, 20

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