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Betty Blue [37°2 le matin] **** (1986, Béatrice Dalle, Jean-Hugues Anglade, Consuelo De Haviland, Gérard Darmond, Vincent Lindon) – Classic Movie Review 6,332
Jean-Jacques Beineix’s erotically charged, visually stylish 1986 French cinema landmark Betty Blue [37°2 le matin] offers Béatrice Dalle her best ever screen opportunity as volatile waitress Betty attracted to Zorg (Jean-Hugues Anglade). Writer/ director Jean-Jacques […]
Decline and Fall… of a Birdwatcher ** (1968, Robin Phillips, Genevieve Page, Donald Wolfit, Colin Blakely, Patience Collier Leo McKern, Kenneth Griffith, Rodney Bewes) – Classic Movie Review 6331
Director John Krish’s 1968 comedy is a dodgy, unstylish film of Evelyn Waugh’s masterwork satirical (partly autobiographical) novel, now unfortunately updated to the Swinging Sixties, hence is alternate title of Decline and Fall… of a […]
The Hireling **** (1973, Robert Shaw, Sarah Miles, Peter Egan, Elizabeth Sellars, Caroline Mortimer) – Classic Movie Review 6274
L P Hartley’s class-conscious novel set in 1923 about a chauffeur, Steven Ledbetter (Robert Shaw), who befriends and falls for his posh, disturbed mistress Lady Franklin (Sarah Miles) may be a trifle thin and sedate as cinema. […]
Little Big Man ***** (1970, Dustin Hoffman, Martin Balsam, Faye Dunaway, Chief Dan George, Richard Mulligan, Jeff Corey) – Classic Movie Review 6272
Director Arthur Penn’s classic 1970 epic Western stars Dustin Hoffman, who gives a bravura performance as Jack Crabb, 121-year-old survivor of Little Big Horn, who recounts his tall story as an adopted Cheyenne and buddy […]
The Blood of Others [Le Sang des Autres] * (1984, Jodie Foster, Michael Ontkean, Sam Neill, Lambert Wilson, Stéphane Audran) – Classic Movie Review 6267
Director Claude Chabrol’s 1984 World War Two drama, set in German occupied Paris under the horrors of Nazism, is very strongly cast but over-long at 135 minutes and struggling. Brian Moore adapts the novel by […]
Storm Over the Nile * (1955, Anthony Steel, Laurence Harvey, James Robertson Justice, Ronald Lewis, Ian Carmichael, Mary Ure) – Classic Movie Review 6265
Directors Zoltan Korda and Terence Young’s completely unwanted CinemaScope remake of the great 1939 Zoltan Korda adventure classic The Four Feathers, based on the novel by A E W Mason, does not even have the […]
Drop Dead Darling [Arrivederci, Baby!] * (1966, Tony Curtis, Rosanna Schiaffino, Lionel Jeffries, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Nancy Kwan, Fenella Fielding, Anna Quayle) – Classic Movie Review 6229
Tony Curtis plays Nick, literally, a ladykiller who weds ’em then kills ’em to his heart’s content to inherit from his rich widows until he meets his match in his latest wife, young Italian widowed […]