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The Unbearable Lightness of Being **** (1988, Daniel Day-Lewis, Juliette Binoche, Lena Olin) – Classic Movie Review 11,872

Czech-born novelist Milan Kundera’s best-known work is The Unbearable Lightness of Being: the idea is that everything is guaranteed to recur infinitely in an infinite universe. But he complained about the film version. Director Philip […]

Jan, 22

The Confession [L’Aveu] **** (1970, Yves Montand, Simone Signoret, Gabriele Ferzetti) – Classic Movie Review 10,968

Yves Montand is a powerful presence in the intense, exciting and revealing true-story political thriller The Confession [L’Aveu] [La Confessione], based on the story of Czechoslovakian communist Artur London, that tellingly concentrates on the documentary-style […]

Feb, 27

The Fourth War ** (1990, Roy Scheider, Jürgen Prochnow, Tim Reid, Lara Harris, Harry Dean Stanton) – Classic Movie Review 8528

Director John Frankenheimer’s 1990 Cold War drama The Fourth War stars Roy Scheider and Jürgen Prochnow as cold warriors who fight it out in the snow, in this old-fashioned action thriller set where the Western […]

May, 31

Peter and Pavla [Cerný Petr] [Black Peter] **** (1964, Ladislav Jakim, Pavla Martinkova, Jan Vostrcil) – Classic Movie Review 7042

Director Milos Forman’s fresh, lively and delightful 1964 Czechoslovak feature debut (after three documentaries) is a satirical comedy drama full of youthful enthusiasm. Ladislav Jakim plays the young shop detective Peter [Petr], who is getting […]

May, 12

Hitler’s Madman [Hitler’s Hangman] *** (1943, Patricia Morison, John Carradine, Alan Curtis) – Classic Movie Review 6381

Director Douglas Sirk’s 1943 wartime drama was suggested as a World War Two moral-boosting movie by Eleanor Roosevelt, the US First Lady (1933-45), and is based on a tragic real story, though slightly fictionalized. It […]

Dec, 09

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