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8½ [Otto e Mezzo] ***** (1963, Marcello Mastroianni, Anouk Aimée, Claudia Cardinale, Sandra Milo, Barbara Steele, Madeleine Lebeau, Rosella Falk, Guido Alberti, Edra Gale) – Classic Movie Review 634

Federico Fellini’s legendary seventh solo film from 1963 8½ [Otto e Mezzo] focuses on the trials and tribulations of film-making. It stars Marcello Mastroianni, Anouk Aimée, Claudia Cardinale and Sandra Milo. Federico Fellini’s legendary seventh […]

Jan, 05

Bullets over Broadway ***** (1994, John Cusack, Dianne Wiest, Jennifer Tilly) – Classic Movie Review 347

This glittering old-style comedy from an on-form writer-director Woody Allen dazzled us in 1994. Unfortunately he doesn’t appear this time, but he’s ensured that a great ensemble cast does. The story takes place in 1920s […]

Nov, 01

Stage Fright **** (1950, Marlene Dietrich, Jane Wyman, Richard Todd, Michael Wilding, Alastair Sim, Sybil Thorndike, Kay Walsh, Patricia Hitchcock) – Classic Movie Review 326

Alfred Hitchcock recalls his 1950 British thriller film Stage Fright: ‘Several of the reviewers mentioned Selwyn Jepson’s novel Man Running might make a good Hitchcock picture and I, like an idiot, believed them.’ ‘Love held […]

Oct, 26

Notting Hill **** (1999, Hugh Grant, Julia Roberts, Rhys Ifans) – Classic Movie Review 184

‘I’m also just a girl, standing in front of a boy, asking him to love her.’ Julia Roberts enchants as Anna Scott, the world’s most famous movie star, in this delicious, winning hit romantic comedy. But, […]

Aug, 24

All About Eve ***** (1950, Bette Davis, Anne Baxter, George Sanders, Celeste Holm, Marilyn Monroe, Gary Merrill, Hugh Marlowe, Thelma Ritter) – Classic Movie Review 76

‘Fasten your seatbelts, it’s going to be a bumpy night’ – Margo Channing. Writer-director Joseph L Mankiewicz’s 1950 American drama film All About Eve stars Bette Davis as aging Broadway star Margo Channing and Anne Baxter as ambitious […]

Jul, 21

Singin’ in the Rain ***** (1952, Gene Kelly, Debbie Reynolds, Donald O’Connor, Millard Mitchell, Jean Hagen, Rita Moreno, Cyd Charisse) – Classic Movie Review 6

Hooray for the 1952 triumph Singin’ in the Rain, most everybody’s favourite, all-time great musical, with treasurable songs, a brilliantly witty sense of humour, a vibrant insider’s sense of the cinema and a clutch of […]

Jun, 27

What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? ***** (1962, Bette Davis, Joan Crawford) – Classic Movie Review 339

Joan Crawford: ‘You wouldn’t be able to do these awful things to me if I weren’t still in this [wheel]chair.’ Bette Davis: ‘Butcha ARE, Blanche, ya ARE !’ Finally together on screen, lifetime Hollywood arch-rivals […]

Jun, 18

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