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A Streetcar Named Desire ***** (1951, Vivien Leigh, Marlon Brando, Kim Hunter, Karl Malden) – Classic Movie Review 974

The superbly realised 1951 movie of Tennessee Williams’s greatest play A Streetcar Named Desire is lit up by its incandescent performances. It won four Oscars, including Best Actress for Vivien Leigh. Director Elia Kazan’s superbly […]

Mar, 23

The American President ***½ (1995, Michael Douglas, Annette Bening, Martin Sheen, Michael J Fox, John Mahoney, Samantha Mathis, Richard Dreyfuss) – Classic Movie Review 945

Producer-director Rob Reiner’s 1995 romantic comedy drama stars Michael Douglas as widowed US President Andrew Shepherd, who seizes his chance for love and goes after political lobbyist journalist Sydney Ellen Wade (Annette Bening). This amusing, […]

Mar, 19

Swing Time ***** (1936, Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Helen Broderick, Eric Blore, Victor Moore, Betty Furness, Georges Metaxa) – Classic Movie Review 936

‘America’s dazzling dancing stars explode in a glorious songburst of gayety and gladness!’ Director George Stevens’s heavenly all-time great 1936 musical Swing Time stars the divine pair of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, already in […]

Mar, 18

Sabrina *** (1954, Humphrey Bogart, Audrey Hepburn, William Holden) – Classic Film Review 934

Director Billy Wilder’s 1954 romance is a pleasant but modest and none-too-sparkling romantic comedy based on a creaky 1953 Broadway play Sabrina Fair by Samuel Taylor. William Holden stars as David Larrabee, an easy-going Long Island playboy along with […]

Mar, 18

The Last Days of Disco *** (1998, Chloë Sevigny, Kate Beckinsale, Chris Eigeman, Mackenzie Astin, Matt Keeslar, Robert Sean Leonard, Jennifer Beals) – Classic Film Review 920

Modish cult writer-producer-director Whit Stillman’s 1998 musical romantic comedy drama stars Chloë Sevigny and Kate Beckinsale, who are among a group of friends hanging out at a trendy New York disco in the late 80s […]

Mar, 16

Don Juan DeMarco **** (1994, Johnny Depp, Marlon Brando, Faye Dunaway) – Classic Movie Review 909

‘There are only four questions of value in life: What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made? What is worth living for? And what is worth dying for? The answer to each is the […]

Mar, 13

Something’s Gotta Give **** (2003, Jack Nicholson, Diane Keaton, Keanu Reeves, Frances McDormand, Amanda Peet, Jon Favreau) – Classic Movie Review 879

Diane Keaton gained her fourth Oscar nomination and won the Golden Globe for Best Actress in a Comedy or Musical for Something’s Gotta Give (2003). Writer-director Nancy Meyers’s 2003 comedy stars Jack Nicholson as the […]

Mar, 09

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