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Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights (1992, Juliette Binoche, Ralph Fiennes, Janet McTeer, Sophie Ward, Simon Shepherd, Jeremy Northam, Simon Ward) – Classic Movie Review 13,859

The 1992 film travesty of the great Emily Brontë novel Wuthering Heights plumbs the withering depths. Juliette Binoche appears lost as Cathy and Ralph Fiennes appears in his film debut as Heathcliff. Director Peter Kosminsky’s […]

Feb, 18

Wuthering Heights [Abismos de pasión] ***(1954, Jorge Mistral, Irasema Dilián) – Classic Movie Review 13,858

Luis Buñuel transposes Emily Brontë’s story from the Yorkshire moors to a 19th‑century Mexican hacienda setting for his 1954 Mexican film version of Wuthering Heights [Abismos de pasión]. The 1954 film version of Wuthering Heights […]

Feb, 18

Gertrud **** (1964, Nina Pens Rode, Bendt Rothe, Baard Owe, Ebbe Rode) – Classic Movie Review 10,813

Gertrud: ‘The man I’m with must be completely mine. I must come before everything. I don’t want to be an occasional plaything.’ Writer-director Carl Theodor Dreyer’s 1964 Danish black and white classic film Gertrud is […]

Jan, 21

Le Quai des Brumes [Port of Shadows] ***** (1938, Jean Gabin, Michèle Morgan, Michel Simon, Pierre Brasseur, Edouard Delmont) – Classic Movie Review 355

          Jean Gabin and Michèle Morgan unforgettably play out their passion-driven fate as doomed lovers in the poetically grungy, smoky and despairing urban settings of a pre-war Le Havre, Seine-Maritime, northern France. […]

Nov, 03

Le Jour se Leve [Daybreak] ***** (1939, Jean Gabin, Arletty, Jacqueline Laurent, Jules Berry) – Classic Movie Review 354

French maestro Marcel Carné’s 1939 masterwork is a moody, atmospheric, haunting romantic thriller. Jean Gabin stars as a nice ordinary factory worker Francois, who is holed up and barricaded in the furnished room of his garret, cornered […]

Nov, 03

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