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Frida *** (2002, Salma Hayek, Alfred Molina, Geoffrey Rush, Antonio Banderas, Roger Rees, Diego Luna) – Classic Movie Review 7195

Director Julie Taymor’s 2002 film Frida is a passionate, swirling and colourful biopic of doomed Mexican artist Frida Kahlo, based on the book by Hayden Herrera. It won two Oscars: Best Original Score (Elliot Goldenthal) and Best […]

Jun, 19

Bedelia *** (1946, Margaret Lockwood, Ian Hunter, Barry K Barnes, Anne Crawford, Jill Esmond) – Classic Movie Review 7077

Director Lance Comfort’s 1946 British thriller Bedelia stars Margaret Lockwood, who leads a novelettish, splendidly trashy murder mystery that was a big success of the day, perhaps surprising so given its lack of real quality. […]

May, 21

Live, Love and Learn *** (1937, Robert Montgomery, Rosalind Russell, Robert Benchley) – Classic Movie Review 6975

Director George Fitzmaurice’s 1937 movie Live, Love and Learn stars Rosalind Russell as a wealthy sophisticate who weds a poor artist (Montgomery). MGM’s vehicle for its two stars is a routine but still often amusing […]

Apr, 28

Devotion *** (1946, Olivia de Havilland, Ida Lupino, Paul Henreid, Sydney Greenstreet, Arthur Kennedy, Montagu Love, Paul Henreid, Dame May Whitty, Ethel Griffies) – Classic Movie Review 6811

Director Curtis Bernhardt’s 1946 romantic biographical drama of the lives of the Brontës stars Ida Lupino Emily Brontë, Olivia de Havilland as Charlotte Brontë, Nancy Coleman as Anne Brontë, and Arthur Kennedy as Branwell Brontë. […]

Mar, 16

Ladies of Leisure *** (1930, Barbara Stanwyck, Lowell Sherman, Ralph Graves) – Classic Movie Review 6778

Barbara Stanwyck plays a typical Thirties wisecracking, gold-digging model girl, in her first film with frequent director Frank Capra, the romantic drama Ladies of Leisure (1930). ‘ALL DIALOG DRAMA OF NEW YORK’S NITE LIFE. Zippy, […]

Mar, 07

La prisonnière [Woman in Chains] *** (1968, Élisabeth Wiener, Bernard Fresson, Laurent Terzieff) – Classic Movie Review 6646

Writer-director Henri-Georges Clouzot’s stylish last film is his only one in colour. An unclassifiable erotic and psychological thriller, it focuses on the troubled mentality of an attractive young a television editor called Josée (Élisabeth Wiener) who […]

Feb, 03

Artists and Models *** (1955, Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis, Shirley MacLaine, Dorothy Malone, Eddie Mayehoff, Eva Gabor, Anita Ekberg) – Classic Movie Review 6621

Co-writer director Frank Tashlin’s 1955 comedy vehicle for Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis is co-written by actor Don McGuire, Lewis’s friend, who also co-wrote the weak Martin and Lewis film Three Ring Circus (1954). The comedy is […]

Jan, 30

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