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Le Château de Ma Mère [My Mother’s Castle] ***** (1990, Julien Ciamaca, Philippe Caubère, Nathalie Roussel) – Classic Movie Review 9297
Director Yves Robert’s 1990 Le Château de Ma Mère [My Mother’s Castle] is the glorious sequel to La Gloire de Mon Père [My Father’s Glory]. Julien Ciamaca is superb as the teenager Marcel Pagnol, who […]
The Vanishing **** (1988, Bernard-Pierre Donnadieu, Gene Bervoets, Johanna ter Steege) – Classic Movie Review 8991
Director George Sluizer’s terrifying 1988 Dutch mystery horror psycho thriller The Vanishing [Spoorloos], based on Tim Krabbé’s novel The Golden Egg with a screenplay by the author, is highly disturbing, even uniquely disturbing, but with […]
The Marseille Contract [The Destructors] *** (1974, Michael Caine, Anthony Quinn, James Mason, Maurice Ronet, Alexandra Stewart, Marcel Bozzuffi) – Classic Movie Review 8990
Director Robert Parrish’s 1974 movie The Marseille Contract [The Destructors] is a commonplace Seventies Euro-thriller yarn of US narcotics agent Steve Ventura (Anthony Quinn) hiring an English killer to bump off evil French crime and […]
Une Partie de Campagne [A Day in the Country] ***** (1946, Sylvia Bataille, Jane Marken, Georges D’Arnoux) – Classic Movie Review 8979
Director Jean Renoir’s delightful 1946 French short feature film Une Partie de Campagne [A Day in the Country] – poetic, humorous and evocative – is a cinematic milestone. Set in 1860, Renoir’s carefully constructed, exquisitely […]
This Land Is Mine *** (1943, Charles Laughton, Maureen O’Hara, George Sanders, Walter Slezak, Una O’Connor, Kent Smith) – Classic Movie Review 8977
Director Jean Renoir’s 1943 black and white wartime drama This Land Is Mine is perfectly constructed and strongly cast but it lacks his usual panache, partly because of Dudley Nichols’s routine screenplay and situations. Charles […]
At Sword’s Point [Sons of the Musketeers] *** (1952, Cornel Wilde, Maureen O’Hara, Robert Douglas, Gladys Cooper, Dan O’Herlihy Alan Hale Jr) – Classic Movie Review 8830
Sons of the Musketeers, yes, and daughter of the Musketeers too! Who could ignore Maureen O’Hara with her hair and lips painted extra red by the blazing Technicolor as Claire, daughter of Athos? Energetic junior […]
Madame Rosa [La Vie Devant Soi] **** (1977, Simone Signoret, Michal Bat-Adam, Samy Ben-Youb) – Classic Movie Review 8776
Director Moshé Mizrahi’s 1977 drama Madame Rosa [La Vie Devant Soi] [The Life Before Us] stars Simone Signoret, who gives a great performance as a Jewish Auschwitz survivor and former prostitute who lives in a […]