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Bicycle Thieves [Ladri di Biciclette] ***** (1948, Lamberto Maggiorani, Enzo Staiola, Lianella Carell) – Classic Movie Review 1,046

Enzo Staiola was plucked off the street while watching the filming in Rome at the age of eight to star in Vittorio De Sica’s 1948 Italian neorealist masterpiece film Bicycle Thieves. Director Vittorio De Sica’s […]

Apr, 04

Quantum of Solace *** (2008, Daniel Craig, Olga Kurylenko, Mathieu Amalric, Judi Dench, Giancarlo Giannini, Gemma Arterton, Jeffrey Wright) – Classic Movie Review 844

Daniel Craig returns for his second turn as James Bond in the direct sequel to the 2006 Casino Royale, concluding its story. In the 22nd 007 film, directed by Marc Forster in 2008, Bond seeks revenge […]

Feb, 19

Don’t Look Now ***** (1973, Julie Christie, Donald Sutherland, Hilary Mason, Clelia Matania, Massimo Serato, Renato Scarpa, Leopoldo Trieste) – Classic Movie Review 681

The dazzling, chilling and eerily disturbing 1973 pyschic chiller Don’t Look Now, based on Daphne du Maurier’s story, is easily esteemed British director Nicolas Roeg’s most popular and successfully realised film. A perfectly paired Julie […]

Jan, 12

Summertime [Summer Madness] ***** (1955, Katharine Hepburn, Rossano Brazzi, Isa Miranda, Darren McGavin, Mari Aldon, André Morell, Jeremy Spenser) – Classic Movie Review 679

Director David Lean’s 1955 exquisite masterwork is a gloriously unashamed, full-throttled romance, in which Katharine Hepburn plays Jane Hudson, a visiting American spinster who enjoys a summer of chaste love with an old Italian smoothie […]

Jan, 12

Life Is Beautiful [La vita è bella] ***** (1997, Roberto Benigni, Nicoletta Braschi, Giorgio Cantarini, Marisa Paredes, Horst Buchholz) – Classic Movie Review 415

This triple-Oscar-winning 1999 Italian movie is a triumph for its mastermind, Roberto Benigni, who walked off with the Best Actor Oscar and the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar as its director. One for each end […]

Nov, 17

My Own Private Idaho **** (1991, River Phoenix, Keanu Reeves, James Russo) – Classic Movie Review 397

Writer-director Gus Van Sant’s 1991 cult favourite follow-up to the 1989 hit Drugstore Cowboy is a bravely, inspiringly poetic study of a friendship between two young male hustlers, both with parent issues. Two teen heart-throbs of the […]

Nov, 12

The Red Violin [Le Violon Rouge] ***** (1998, Samuel L Jackson, Don McKellar, Jason Flemyng, Greta Scacchi, Colm Feore, Sandra Oh, Carlo Cecchi) – Classic Movie Review 263

The haunting and ravishing treat of a film called The Red Violin (1998). Director François Girard tells the ambitious, utterly beguiling and beautiful epic history of a mythical violin from its creation by maker Nicolo […]

Oct, 01

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