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Day for Night [La nuit américaine] ***** (1973, Jacqueline Bisset, Valentina Cortese, François Truffaut, Nathalie Baye) – Classic Movie Review 1403

His thirteenth film proves lucky number 13 for François Truffaut as his much-loved 1973 success Day for Night [La Nuit Américaine] represents a huge return to form for him. Co-writer/ director/ star Truffaut’s 1974 Best […]

Jul, 07

The End of the Affair **** (1999, Ralph Fiennes, Julianne Moore, Stephen Rea) – Classic Movie Review 831

Writer-director Neil Jordan’s 1999 movie is much better than the 1954 Hollywood-ised version (with Deborah Kerr and Van Johnson) and it’s an excellent and edgy though still not entirely satisfactory film of one of Graham Greene’s […]

Feb, 15

Ministry of Fear **** (1944, Ray Milland, Marjorie Reynolds, Carl Esmond, Dan Duryea, Alan Napier) – Classic Movie Review 759

This thoroughly enjoyable film noir thriller was made in 1944 by the great Viennese director Fritz Lang, who probably knew as little about its source author as about England. But he did knew a lot […]

Jan, 27

Brighton Rock ***** (1947, Richard Attenborough, Hermione Baddeley, William Hartnell, Alan Wheatley, Carol Marsh) – Classic Movie Review 724

Richard Attenborough gives an inspired, chilling performance as the psychotic young tearaway Pinkie Brown in the Boulting Brothers’ marvellous 1947 film version of Graham Greene’s classic novel Brighton Rock. The 24-year-old Richard Attenborough gives an […]

Jan, 19

The Green Mile ***** (1999, Tom Hanks, Michael Clarke Duncan, David Morse) – Classic Movie Review 277

Tom Hanks is ideally cast as Paul Edgecomb, the head guard supervising prisoners on Death Row at the Deep South Coal Mountain Correctional Facility in the 1930s. When John Coffey (Michael Clarke Duncan), a gentle […]

Oct, 07

The Third Man ***** (1949, Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Alida Valli, Trevor Howard, Bernard Lee, Wilfrid Hyde White) – Classic Movie Review 170

‘In Italy for 30 years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, and they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherhood and 500 years of democracy […]

Aug, 17

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