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Gigi **** (1958, Leslie Caron, Maurice Chevalier, Louis Jourdan, Hermione Gingold) – Classic Movie Review 2178

Director Vincente Minnelli’s 1958 musical Gigi, with exactly the right stars in Leslie Caron, Louis Jourdan, Maurice Chevalier and Hermione Gingold, was a huge hit and a surprise sensation at the Academy Awards. It is […]

Feb, 16

The French Lieutenant’s Woman **** (1981, Meryl Streep, Jeremy Irons, Leo McKern) – Classic Movie Review 2.116

Director  Karel Reisz’s fascinating 1981 film of John Fowles’s 1969 postmodern historical fiction novel The French Lieutenant’s Woman is graced with another literate, distinguished screenplay by Harold Pinter, striking cinematography by Freddie Francis, a lovely […]

Jan, 26

Cry-Baby **** (1990, Johnny Depp, Ricki Lake, Amy Locane) – Classic Movie Review 2095

Writer-director John Waters’s infectiously campy 1990 spoof teen musical romantic comedy stars the young and sexily cute Johnny Depp, who was 26 but looks about 16. Depp radiates star quality as the tough teen rebel of […]

Jan, 21

Moulin Rouge **** (1952, José Ferrer, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Colette Marchand) – Classic Movie Review 2084

Director John Huston’s vibrant, beautiful-looking, double Oscar-winning 1952 biopic focuses on the garish colours, wild times and wayward characters captured so vividly in Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec’s paintings and poster art of late 19th-century Montmartre in […]

Jan, 18

Dance with a Stranger **** (1985, Miranda Richardson, Rupert Everett, Ian Holm) – Classic Movie Review 2054

Miranda Richardson and Rupert Everett are superb in director Mike Newell’s powerful, moving and subtle 1985 movie account of the tragic story of Ruth Ellis, the last woman in Britain hanged for murder back in […]

Jan, 08

Coming Home ***** (1978, Jane Fonda, Jon Voight, Bruce Dern, Penelope Milford, Robert Carradine, Robert Ginty) – Classic Movie Review 2,053

Jane Fonda and Jon Voight won Oscars for Best Actress and Best Actor for the high-impact 1978 American romantic war drama film Coming Home. A third Oscar went to Best Original Screenplay. Bruce Dern and Penelope Milford were nominated […]

Jan, 06

A Walk to Remember *** (2002, Shane West, Mandy Moore, Peter Coyote) – Classic Movie Review 2023

Director Adam Shankman’s 2002 romance delivers another of Nicholas Sparks’s bestselling novels successfully to the screen, following Message in a Bottle in 1999. Shane West stars as a cocky, tearaway North Carolina student called Landon Carter, […]

Dec, 30

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