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The Class [Entre Les Murs] **** (2008, Stars François Bégaudeau, Agame Malembo-Emene, Angélica Sancio) – Classic Movie Review 12,860

French film-maker Laurent Cantet won the Palme d’Or in Cannes in 2008 for his moving and humorous school-set film The Class [Entre Les Murs]. Laurent Cantet’s 2008 Cannes Palme d’Or-winning school-set film The Class [Entre […]

Apr, 26

It’s Not Cricket *** (1949, Basil Radford, Naunton Wayne, Susan Shaw, Maurice Denham, Alan Wheatley, Diana Dors) – Classic Movie Review 10,876

The 1949 film It’s Not Cricket is an amusing and engaging minor British comedy starring Basil Radford and Naunton Wayne as upper class twits who set up as bumbling private detectives and become mixed up […]

Feb, 03

El Norte [The North] **** (1984, Zaide Silvia Gutiérrez, David Villalpando, Ernesto Gómez Cruz) – Classic Movie Review 9842

Director Gregory Nava’s timely 1984 milestone immigrant saga El Norte [The North] is the moving, thoughtful and exciting tale of a Guatemalan brother and sister who escape across the US – Mexico border to LA […]

May, 30

Teacher’s Pet *** (1958, Clark Gable, Doris Day, Gig Young, Mamie Van Doren, Nick Adams, Peter Baldwin, Marion Ross) – Classic Movie Review 6082

Director George Seaton’s 1958 comedy may not be a great movie but it finds a successful and pleasing way to pair two stars from different generations – Clark Gable and Doris Day. The performances and […]

Oct, 11

Waterland **½ (1992, Jeremy Irons, Sinéad Cusack, Ethan Hawke, Grant Warnock, David Morrissey, John Heard) – Classic Movie Review 5137

Jeremy Irons stars as a Tom Crick, a disillusioned high school history teacher who has been a teacher in an American school for 20 years but is having trouble connecting with his students and his […]

Mar, 11

Certain Women **** (2016, Michelle Williams, Kristen Stewart, Laura Dern, Lily Gladstone, Jared Harris, James Le Gros, Rene Auberjonois) – Movie Review

Writer-director Kelly Reichardt hauntingly brings some of Maile Meloy’s stories to the screen in three inter-connected yarns in which the lives of four women intersect in the small-town America on Montana. It stars Michelle Williams, Kristen Stewart, Laura Dern and Lily […]

Mar, 05

To Sir, with Love *** (1967, Sidney Poitier, Judy Geeson, Christian Roberts, Suzy Kendall, Adrienne Posta, Lulu, Patricia Routledge, Faith Brook) – Classic Movie Review 2756

Writer-director James Clavell’s 1967 British school drama provides an excellent role for American star Sidney Poitier, though admittedly he turns up unexpectedly in a London inner-city school for hard knocks. There he teaches troublesome pupils Judy Geeson, Suzy […]

Jul, 30

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