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The Long Day Closes **** (1992, Leigh McCormack, Marjorie Yates, Anthony Watson) – Classic Movie Review 5.154

Writer-director Terence Davies’s lovely 1992 British labour of love film The Long Day Closes is his first since his 1988 Distant Voices, Still Lives, and is the third film in his entrancing autobiographical trilogy. Leigh […]

Mar, 14

Splendor **** (1989, Marcello Mastroianni, Massimo Troisi, Marina Vlady) – Classic Movie Review 4048

Italian writer-director Ettore Scola’s affectingly nostalgic 1989 salute to the cinema is as good and glorious as the much more lauded Cinema Paradiso (1988). Marcello Mastroianni is splendid as Jordan, the owner and manager of the […]

Jul, 19

L’Argent de Poche [Small Change] **** (1976, Georges Desmouceaux, Philippe Goldmann, Nicole Félix) – Classic Movie Review 3018

Director François Truffaut’s 1976 hymn to the joys of youth is a series of charming anecdotes about a group of provincial French schoolboys, their teachers and parents in the town of Thiers in the summer of […]

Oct, 30

The Last Picture Show ***** (1971, Timothy Bottoms, Jeff Bridges, Cybill Shepherd, Ellen Burstyn, Cloris Leachman, Ben Johnson, Sam Bottoms, Eileen Brennan, Randy Quaid, Clu Gulager) – Classic Movie Review 2,284

Peter Bogdanovich’s 1971 movie triumph The Last Picture Show is an outstanding adaptation of Larry McMurtry’s semi-autobiographical novel about a sensitive teenager (Timothy Bottoms)’s coming of age in the 1950s. Director Peter Bogdanovich’s 1971 movie […]

Mar, 19

The Smallest Show on Earth ***** (1957, Bill Travers, Virginia McKenna, Peter Sellers, Margaret Rutherford, Bernard Miles) – Classic Movie Review 1643

Small is beautiful. Happy days with the ramshackle, debt-ridden old London fleapit cinema called The Bijou in the 1957 Brit comedy film The Smallest Show on Earth. Director Basil Dearden’s adorable 1957 British comedy classic […]

Sep, 07

The Tingler **** (1959, Vincent Price, Judith Evelyn, Darryl Hickman) – Classic Movie Review 1146

William Castle: ‘And remember this: A scream at the right time may save your life.’ In producer-director William Castle’s 1959 thoroughly enjoyable chiller chef d’oeuvre The Tingler, Vincent Price stars as Dr Warren Chapin, a pathologist […]

Apr, 25

Cinema Paradiso [Nuovo Cinema Paradiso] ***** (1988, Philippe Noiret, Salvatore Cascio, Enzo Cannavale, Antonella Attili, Marco Leonardi, Leopoldo Trieste, Jacques Perrin, Brigitte Fossey) – Classic Movie Review 503

Writer-director Giuseppe Tornatore’s glorious 1988 love letter to the movies Cinema Paradiso [Nuovo Cinema Paradiso] is now deservedly hailed as a classic of Italian cinema. This 1989 Best Foreign Film Oscar-winner and Cannes Jury prize-winner […]

Dec, 12

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