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The Touch [Beröringen] ** (1971, Elliott Gould, Bibi Andersson, Max von Sydow) – Classic Movie Review 8074

Writer/ producer/ director Ingmar Bergman makes his first film in English, the 1971 The Touch, and casts an American star. A mistake! Super though Elliott Gould usually is, he at a loss in Ingmar Bergmanland […]

Jan, 29

The Female Animal ** (1958, Hedy Lamarr, Jane Powell, Jan Sterling, George Nader, James Gleason, Jerry Paris, Ann Doran, Gregg Palmer) – Classic Movie Review 7735

‘It is said that when a woman fights for a man, she is like an ANIMAL!’ Director Harry Keller’s kitsch 1957 film noir romantic melodrama The Female Animal stars Hedy Lamarr in her last movie, […]

Nov, 01

It Started in Naples *** (1960, Clark Gable, Sophia Loren, Vittorio De Sica) – Classic Movie Review 6920

The ageing Clark Gable announced that he was too old to play romantic leading roles and would be looking for different kinds of parts after But Not for Me (1959), but his next film is […]

Apr, 14

Finding Your Feet ** (2017, Timothy Spall, Imelda Staunton, Celia Imrie, Joanna Lumley, David Hayman, John Sessions, Josie Lawrence) – Movie Review

Finding Your Feet is a guaranteed crowd pleaser with two bona fide national treasures in Imelda Staunton and Timothy Spall, plus a great performance by Celia Imrie. Director Richard Loncraine’s often funny and charming Finding Your […]

Feb, 25

Bombay Talkie *** (1970, Shashi Kapoor, Jennifer Kendal, Zia Mohyeddin) – Classic Movie Review 6358

Director James Ivory’s 1970 Indian film-studio set romantic drama stars the husband and wife team of Shashi Kapoor and Jennifer Kendal. Jennifer Kendal plays Lucia Lane, an English writer who goes to Bombay from America […]

Dec, 05

Lisztomania ** (1975, Roger Daltrey, Sara Kestelman, Paul Nicholas, Fiona Lewis, Ringo Starr, Rick Wakeman) – Classic Movie Review 5451

After The Music Lovers (1970) and Mahler (1973), here we go with still more music and sex from writer-director Ken Russell in 1975. So stand by for Russell’s smutty over-grown schoolboy representation of composer and pianist Franz Liszt […]

May, 14

Liebestraum * (1991, Kevin Anderson, Bill Pullman, Kim Novak, Pamela Gidley) – Classic Movie Review 5089

Unfortunately, writer-composer-director Mike Figgis lets arty images take the place of interesting characterisation and a decent plot in his pretentious, low-voltage 1991 neo noir mystery thriller. Kevin Anderson stars as Nick Kaminsky, a young professor […]

Mar, 01

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