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The Best Years of Our Lives ***** (1946, Fredric March, Dana Andrews, Myrna Loy, Teresa Wright, Virginia Mayo, Cathy O’Donnell, Hoagy Carmichael, Harold Russell, Gladys George) – Classic Movie Review 2437

Director William Wyler’s 1946 triumph The Best Years of Our Lives won seven Oscars including Best Picture. It also won the 1947 Golden Globe for Best Motion Picture and the 1948 BAFTA Film Award for […]

Apr, 30

Slow West **** (2015, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Michael Fassbender, Ben Mendelsohn, Caren Pistorius) – Movie Review

Kodi Smit-McPhee stars in writer and director John Maclean’s 2015 Western film Slow West as a 16-year-old Scots boy called Jay who journeys across 19th-century frontier America in search of the girl he loves. Michael […]

Apr, 24

Senso ***** (1954, Farley Granger, Alida Valli, Massimo Girotti, Heinz Moog) – Classic Movie Review 2410

One of the gay Marxist aristocrat Luchino Visconti’s greatest films, this highly emotional, elegantly staged and gorgeous-looking 1954 world cinema romantic masterpiece tells the story of the tragedy of an Italian woman who betrays her […]

Apr, 19

Barefoot in the Park **** (1967, Robert Redford, Jane Fonda, Charles Boyer, Mildred Natwick) – Classic Movie Review 2,381

Happily and delightfully, the 1967 comedy film Barefoot in the Park preserves the star pairing of the young Jane Fonda and Robert Redford for ever. ‘Paul, I think I’m gonna be a lousy wife. But […]

Apr, 12

My Cousin Rachel **** (1952, Olivia de Havilland, Richard Burton, Audrey Dalton, Ronald Squire, George Dolenz, John Sutton) – Classic Movie Review 2368

Director Henry Koster’s romantic 1952 mystery melodrama comes from the novel by Daphne du Maurier, the author of Jamaica Inn, Rebecca and The Birds, all filmed by Alfred Hitchcock. It would have made perfect material […]

Apr, 06

I Was a Male War Bride ***** (1949, Cary Grant, Ann Sheridan) – Classic Movie Review 2343

Director Howard Hawks’s zany 1949 screwball comedy is delightfully hilarious, sharply written and incisively made, and a triumph for its star, Cary Grant. Always game for a laugh, he appeared in drag more time than […]

Apr, 01

On Golden Pond ***** (1981, Katharine Hepburn, Henry Fonda, Jane Fonda) – Classic Movie Review 2,330

The 1981 film triumph On Golden Pond was the winner of three Oscars: for Best Actor (Henry Fonda), Best Actress (Katharine Hepburn), and Best Adapted Screenplay (for screenwriter Ernest Thompson). Director Mark Rydell’s triple-Oscar-winning 1981 […]

Mar, 30

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