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Variety Lights [Luci del varietà] *** (1950, Peppino De Filippo, Carla Del Poggio, Giulietta Masina) – Classic Movie Review 2656

Federico Fellini makes his directorial début as joint writer-producer-director with Alberto Lattuada in this bitter-sweet 1950 romantic drama about a company of third-rate music-hall theatrical performers on tour.  The story spotlights the adventures of the actors, […]

Jun, 28

The Great Gatsby *** (1974, Robert Redford, Mia Farrow, Sam Waterston, Bruce Dern, Karen Black, Scott Wilson, Lois Chiles) – Classic Movie Review 2630

Director Jack Clayton’s painstaking, beguilingly romantic 1974 version of the great F Scott Fitzgerald novel of 1925 is the third movie of the classic work. It is lit up with captivating performances headed by Robert […]

Jun, 22

The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek ***** (1944, Eddie Bracken, Betty Hutton, Diana Lynn, William Demarest, Porter Hall, Brian Donlevy, Akim Tamiroff) – Classic Movie Review 2622

Writer-producer-director Preston Sturges’s much-loved 1944 screwball comedy The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek is one of his handful of great cinema classics. Sturges’s funny, frantic and tasteless attack on many of America’s most sacred cows from […]

Jun, 21

Annie Get Your Gun **** (1950, Betty Hutton, Howard Keel, Louis Calhern) – Classic Movie Review 2618

The MGM studio, home of the musical, surprisingly lets down Irving Berlin’s great theatre show in a stagey, low-pizzazz movie version with the wrong star. However, director George Sidney’s 1950 movie is all very bright, […]

Jun, 19

How to Marry a Millionaire **** (1953, Marilyn Monroe, Betty Grable, Lauren Bacall, William Powell) – Classic Movie Review 2612

Marilyn Monroe (as Pola Debevoise), Betty Grable (as Loco Dempsey) and Lauren Bacall (as Schatze Page) star as the shallow but sweet gold-diggers of 1953 in director Jean Negulesco’s entertaining smash comedy. The trio of […]

Jun, 17

Love on the Run [L’Amour en Fuite] ***½ (1979, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Claude Jade, Marie-France Pisier, Dani, Dorothée) – Classic Movie Review 2590

Co-writer/director François Truffaut puts his alter ego film-self Antoine Doinel in the spotlight again in 1979 for the fifth and final time, as Jean-Pierre Léaud re-creates his most famous role in this amiable sequel movie. […]

Jun, 13

Queen and Country **** (2014, Callum Turner, Caleb Landry Jones, David Thewlis, Richard E Grant, Pat Shortt, Sinéad Cusack) – Movie Review

Writer-director John Boorman’s sequel to his semi-autobiographical charmer Hope and Glory (1987) is an old-fashioned, civilised pleasure. Callum Turner stars as the grown up 19-year-old Bill Rohan who is drafted into the army, does basic training […]

Jun, 03

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