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The Love Parade ***** (1929, Maurice Chevalier, Jeanette MacDonald, Lupino Lane, Lillian Roth) – Classic Movie Review 5768

The Love Parade is celebrated as the film debut of Jeanette MacDonald, the first talkie directed by Ernst Lubitsch, and a huge box-office hit that helped save the fortunes of Paramount Pictures. Director Ernst Lubitsch’s […]

Jul, 16

The Mating Season *** (1951, Gene Tierney, John Lund, Miriam Hopkins, Thelma Ritter, Jan Sterling) – Classic Movie Review 5707

Director Mitchell Leisen’s 1951 comedy stars Gene Tierney, John Lund, Miriam Hopkins and Thelma Ritter. Irritatingly dull performances from leads Lund and Tierney nearly sink a comedy story of the working-class boy named Val McNulty […]

Jul, 03

Houseboat *** (1958, Cary Grant, Sophia Loren, Martha Hyer, Eduardo Ciannelli, Harry Guardino, Murray Hamilton) – Classic Movie Review 4543

Co-writer/ director Melville Shavelson’s popular 1958 romantic comedy Houseboat has the inestimable advantage of teaming wonderful Cary Grant and Sophia Loren, great friends in real life, in their glorious golden days. There were two Oscar […]

Oct, 27

Rembrandt **** (1936, Charles Laughton, Gertrude Lawrence, Elsa Lanchester) – Classic Movie Review 4514

Producer-director Alexander Korda’s splendid 1936 historical biopic focuses on Charles Laughton’s moving depiction of an artist declining into old age and poverty – in this case the 17th-century Dutch painter Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn (15 […]

Oct, 23

La Ronde *** (1964, Marie Dubois, Claude Giraud, Anna Karina, Jean-Claude Brialy, Jane Fonda, Maurice Ronet, Catherine Spaak, Francine Bergé) – Classic Movie Review 4306

Director Roger Vadim’s starry and atmospheric 1964 film adaptation of the classic Arthur Schnitzler play, now re-set in Paris during the summer of 1914, tells the same ten circular thematically interlinked tales of love and seduction. […]

Sep, 05

La Ronde ***** (1950, Anton Walbrook, Simone Signoret, Serge Reggiani, Simone Simon, Daniel Gélin, Danielle Darrieux, Fernand Gravey) – Classic Movie Review 4305

Co-writer/ director Max Ophüls’s 1950 film masterwork is a brilliantly plush, atmospheric and marvellously performed adaptation of the classic Arthur Schnitzler play. It is set in a hauntingly atmospheric Vienna in 1900, and is told […]

Sep, 05

La Cérémonie [A Judgement in Stone] **** (1995, Isabelle Huppert, Sandrine Bonnaire, Jacqueline Bisset, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Virginie Ledoyen) – Classic Movie Review 4,192

Claude Chabrol turns Ruth Rendell’s thriller novel A Judgement in Stone into one of his best movies, the 1995 crime drama film La Cérémonie. Isabelle Huppert won the 1996 César Award for Best Actress, one […]

Aug, 17

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