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The Glass Menagerie *** (1987, Joanne Woodward, John Malkovich, Karen Allen, James Naughton) – Classic Movie Review 7565
Paul Newman expertly and sensitively directs the Tennessee Williams hothouse drama The Glass Menagerie for the big screen, showing his special affinity with the material. Newman’s wife Joanne Woodward is extremely impressive as the nagging, […]
The Glass Menagerie *** (1973, Katharine Hepburn, Michael Moriarty, Sam Waterston, Joanna Miles) – Classic Movie Review 7564
Four first-class performances light up the excellent new script for television of Tennessee Williams’s play in director Anthony Harvey’s 1973 TV movie The Glass Menagerie. It won four Primetime Emmys. Katharine Hepburn is battling the […]
The Glass Menagerie *** (1950, Jane Wyman, Kirk Douglas, Gertrude Lawrence, Arthur Kennedy) – Classic Movie Review 7563
Unfortunately, director Irving Rapper’s 1950 The Glass Menagerie is not an ideal version of one of Tennessee Williams’s most intriguing plays about life in St Louis, thanks to its plodding pace, uncinematic filming and the […]
I Never Sang for My Father **** (1970, Melvyn Douglas, Gene Hackman, Dorothy Stickney, Estelle Parsons) – Classic Movie Review 7210
Producer-director Gilbert Cates turns a 1964 flop play by Robert Anderson into a showcase for a group of powerhouse performances in his 1970 drama I Never Sang for My Father. It is a guarantee of […]
The Killing of a Sacred Deer **** (2017, Colin Farrell, Nicole Kidman, Barry Keoghan, Alicia Silverstone) – Movie Review
Co-writer/director Yorgos Lanthimos’s dark and sinister drama is his keenly anticipated follow-up to The Lobster (2015). It is very much in the same spirit, a largely impenetrable, impeccably crafted old-style art movie, catnip for film […]
The Glass Castle ** (2017, Brie Larson, Woody Harrelson, Naomi Watts) – Movie Review
Co-writer/ director Destin Daniel Cretton’s serious-minded 2017 film is an interesting and conscientious but unconvincingly staged coming-of-age true-life memoir, with neither Brie Larson nor Naomi Watts seen at their best. Woody Harrelson (wearing a dodgy-looking wig) […]
Parenthood **** (1989, Steve Martin, Tom Hulce, Rick Moranis, Martha Plimpton, Keanu Reeves, Jason Robards, Mary Steenburgen, Dianne Wiest) – Classic Movie Review 5870
Director Ron Howard’s 1989 comedy drama about the dysfunctional Buckman family provides an excellent star role for Steve Martin as US mid-western father Gil, who tries to be a good husband to wife Karen (Mary Steenburgen) and dad […]