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The Happiest Days of Your Life ***** (1950, Alastair Sim, Margaret Rutherford, Joyce Grenfell, Richard Wattis, Edward Rigby, Guy Middleton, George Cole) – Classic Movie Review 2793
Co-writer/co-producer/director Frank Launder’s 1950 British school-days farcical comedy is super vintage fun. John Dighton and Launder’s screenplay, adapted from John Dighton’s stage play, is all about the antagonism and chaos caused when a British government department […]
Jane Eyre *** (1996, William Hurt, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Anna Paquin, Joan Plowright, Richard Warwick) – Classic Movie Review 2671
Director Franco Zeffirelli’s 1996 version of Charlotte Brontë’s 1847 classic novel is rather flat, un-dynamic and un-vibrant. Although the film is highly polished and has several redeeming features, including Charlotte Gainsbourg’s stellar performance as Jane […]
Au Revoir Les Enfants ***** (1987, Gaspard Manesse, Raphael Fejtö, Francine Racette) – Classic Movie Review 1927
Writer-director Louis Malle’s haunting 1987 semi-autobiographical spellbinder, based on a searingly traumatic event in his childhood, is an exquisitely made, heart-breaking real-life story of appalling cruelty and inhumanity that resonates in the widest context. Set in […]
Flirting **** (1991, Noah Taylor, Thandie Newton, Nicole Kidman) – Classic Movie Review 1795
Writer-director John Duigan’s engrossing, beautifully crafted, sharp-witted 1991 coming-of-age tale is set in Australia during the 1960s in the gothic oppressions of an Australian public boarding school for boys, who are at the mercy of […]
A Little Princess **** (1995, Liesel Matthews, Eleanor Bron, Liam Cunningham) – Classic Movie Review 845
Director Alfonso Cuarôn’s 1995 movie is a marvellous remake of the 1911 classic novel A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett (the author of Little Lord Fauntleroy and The Secret Garden) and the beloved 1939 Shirley Temple […]