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Tenderness of the Wolves [Die Zärtlichkeit der Wölfe] *** (1973, Kurt Raab, Jeff Roden, Margit Carstensen) – Classic Movie Review 7499

Rainer Werner Fassbinder produced, edited and appears (as Wittowski) in director Ulli Lommel’s gruesome and eerie but riveting and revealing 1973 German horror film Tenderness of the Wolves (Die Zärtlichkeit der Wölfe), a version of […]

Aug, 26

Oscar Wilde **** (1960, Robert Morley, Phyllis Calvert, Ralph Richardson, John Neville, Dennis Price, Alexander Knox, Edward Chapman) – Classic Movie Review 7236

The smooth and satisfying 1960 biopic Oscar Wilde stars Robert Morley as the playwright and Ralph Richardson as the ruthless prosecuting counsel Sir Edward Carson at his trial. Director Gregory Ratoff’s smooth and satisfying 1960 […]

Jun, 30

The Trials of Oscar Wilde **** (1960, Peter Finch, Yvonne Mitchell, James Mason, John Fraser, Lionel Jeffries, Nigel Patrick) – 7237

Director Ken Hughes’s sterling 1960 biopic The Trials of Oscar Wilde is one of two films released at the same time about the dramatist, who was hounded, persecuted and martyred for his homosexuality. It was beaten […]

Jun, 30

The Happy Prince **** (2018, Rupert Everett, Colin Firth, Emily Watson, Colin Morgan, Edwin Thomas, Tom Wilkinson) – Movie Review

In his tour-de-force labour of love The Happy Prince, Rupert Everett tells the story of the last days in the tragic times of Oscar Wilde, a pitiful wreck of a broken man, more sinned against than […]

Jun, 18

Edward II **** (1991, Steven Waddington, Kevin Collins, Tilda Swinton, Nigel Terry, Andrew Tiernan, John Lynch, Dudley Sutton, Annie Lennox) – Classic Movie Review 6497

Director Derek Jarman’s 1991 film version of Christopher Marlowe’s 16th-century Elizabethan play about the outrageous gay English King Edward II is a lively, imaginative and often moving piece of work. It brings the revered antique play […]

Dec, 30

The Angelic Conversation ***½ (1985, Paul Reynolds, Phillip Williamson, voice of Judi Dench) – Classic Movie Review 6398

Derek Jarman’s haunting 1985 experimental film is his interpretation of 14 William Shakespeare sonnets, eloquently read by Judi Dench, as the images show a young man seeking the man of his heart’s desire. Jarman chooses […]

Dec, 12

Fox and His Friends [Faustrecht der Freiheit] **** (1975, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Peter Chatel, Karlheinz Böhm, Kurt Raab, Adrian Hoven, Harry Baer) – Classic Movie Review 6187

Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s bitter and revealing 1975 German film looks at how one minority group exploits others in an unpleasant tale of the survival of the fittest. Fassbinder himself plays Franz Biberkopf, aka Fox, a gay working […]

Nov, 04

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