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Sebastiane *** (1976, Leonardo Treviglio, Barney James, Neil Kennedy, Richard Warwick, Donald Dunham, Ken Hicks, Lindsay Kemp) – Classic Movie Review 5021

Writer-directors Derek Jarman and Paul Humfress’s controversial 1976 homoerotic look at the 300 AD life of Saint Sebastian (Leonardo Treviglio) is filmed tastefully entirely in Latin (the world’s only film in this dead language) on […]

Feb, 13

Caravaggio **** (1986, Nigel Terry, Sean Bean, Tilda Swinton, Nigel Davenport, Robbie Coltrane, Michael Gough, Garry Cooper, Dexter Fletcher) – Classic Movie Review 4988

Writer-director Derek Jarman’s ­1986 fictionalised biographical drama Caravaggio stars Nigel Terry as the Italian painter Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, born 1573, who lies dying in 1610 and thinks back over his life, work and love […]

Feb, 12

Nighthawks *** (1978, Ken Robertson, Tony Westrope) – Classic Movie Review 4969

Writer-producer-directors Ron Peck and Paul Hallam’s brave, significant and ground-breaking 1978 British film is a well-meaning but depressing slice of Seventies life about a gay schoolteacher (Ken Robertson) who lives a double life. He is […]

Jan, 30

Taxi zum Klo ***½ (1980, Frank Ripploh, Bernd Broaderup) – Classic Movie Review 4968

Writer-director Frank Ripploh’s provocative, once-shocking, ground-breaking 1980 German gay film won the Max Ophuls prize for comedy at the Berlin Film Festival and Boston Society of Film Critics Awards voted it the Best Foreign Language […]

Jan, 30

Tea and Sympathy ** (1956, Deborah Kerr, John Kerr, Leif Erickson, Edward Andrews) – Classic Movie Review 4,964

The love that dared not speak its name is a bit of a problem with Vincente Minnelli’s well-meaning 1956 film version of Robert Anderson’s hit play. Because of the US censorship Code, the play’s subject […]

Jan, 30

Love and Death on Long Island **** (1997, John Hurt, Jason Priestley, Sheila Hancock, Maury Chaykin, Fiona Loewi, Harvey Atkin, Gawn Grainger) – Classic Movie Review 4958

John Hurt revealed that his personal favourites of his own films were Love and Death on Long Island (1997), in which he plays an ageing author obsessed with a young actor, and The Field (1990), […]

Jan, 28

The Naked Civil Servant ****½ (1975, John Hurt, Patricia Hodge, Katherine Schofield, Stanley Lebor, Quentin Crisp) – Classic Movie Review 4952

‘Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level. It’s cheaper.’ Director Jack Gold’s glittering, crisply entertaining 1975 TV movie is a triumph, with a dazzling performance by John Hurt as real-life […]

Jan, 28

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