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Night on Earth **½ (1991, Winona Ryder, Gena Rowlands, Giancarlo Esposito, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Béatrice Dalle, Isaach De Bankolé, Rosie Perez, Roberto Benigni, Paolo Bonacelli, Matti Pellonpää) – Classic Movie Review 10,462)

The promising 1991 anthology comedy drama Night on Earth offers five taxi-driver stories set in different cities from writer/ producer/ director Jim Jarmusch, but not one of them adds up to a fully satisfying trip. […]

Oct, 26

The Story of Three Loves ** (1953, Kirk Douglas, James Mason, Leslie Caron, Moira Shearer, Pier Angeli, Farley Granger) – Classic Movie Review 10,057

MGM’s 1953 anthology film The Story of Three Loves is a starry trio of romantic yarns linked by being told in flashback by a liner’s passengers. Directors Gottfried Reinhardt and Vincente Minnelli’s starry 1953 MGM […]

Jul, 19

The Ballad of Buster Scruggs ***** (2018, Tim Blake Nelson, Tyne Daly, Brendan Gleeson, Saul Rubinek, Tom Waits, Zoe Kazan, James Franco, Jonjo O’Neill, Liam Neeson) – Movie Review

Writer-directors Joel Coen and Ethan Coen’s lovingly respectful homage movie The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018) is first of all a haunting work of art, and second a beautiful toast to the Western movie and […]

Oct, 12

We’re Not Married! *** (1952, Ginger Rogers, Fred Allen, Victor Moore, Paul Douglas, Eve Arden, Marilyn Monroe, David Wayne, Louis Calhern, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Mitzi Gaynor, Eddie Bracken) – Classic Movie Review 7605

Director Edmund Goulding’s 1952 We’re Not Married! is an entertaining and enjoyable film made up of separate stories about five wedded couples from Gina Kaus and Jay Dratler’s well assorted stories, varying from funny to touching, with […]

Sep, 20

Boccaccio 70 *** (1962, Sophia Loren, Romy Schneider, Anita Ekberg, Romolo Valli, Tomas Milian, Paola Stoppa) – Classic Movie Review 5719

In the glorious heyday of Italian cinema, the three Italian big guns – Vittorio De Sica, Luchino Visconti and Federico Fellini – are assembled in 1962 to direct these interesting and enjoyable, typically quirky Sixties-style […]

Jul, 06

Run Lola Run [Lola Rennt] **** (1998, Franka Potente, Moritz Bleibtreu, Herbert Knaup) – Classic Movie Review 4933

Writer-director Tom Tykwer’s fast-moving, freewheeling, inventive 1998 German crime thriller movie shows three different versions of the same story – Lola (Franca Potente)’s fleet-footed attempt to save her boyfriend Manni (Moritz Bleibtreu)’s skin. Manni calls […]

Jan, 24

Train of Events *** (1949, Valerie Hobson, John Clements, Jack Warner, Gladys Henson, Peter Finch, Irina Baronova, Susan Shaw, Patric Doonan, Joan Dowling, Laurence Payne, Mary Morris, John Gregson, Leslie Phillips) – Classic Movie Review 4,593

Ealing Studios’ 1949 British portmanteau film flashes back to reveal four of the passengers’ stories as a London to Liverpool-bound train heads for a crash into a stalled petrol tanker at a level crossing. Ealing […]

Nov, 05

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