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Le Déjeuner Sur L’Herbe [Lunch on the Grass] [Picnic on the Grass] ***** (1959, Paul Meurisse, Charles Blavette, André Brunot, Paulette Dubost, Régine Blaess, Catherine Rouvel, Fernand Sardou, Ingrid Nordine) – Classic Movie Review 8984

The 1959 French world cinema masterwork classic Le Déjeuner Sur L’Herbe [Lunch on the Grass] [Picnic on the Grass] is a superb film, one of Jean Renoir’s and France’s finest. It is partly made on […]

Oct, 15

Perfect Day ** (1929, Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Edgar Kennedy, Kay Deslys, Isabelle Keith) – Classic Movie Review 7536

The title of Perfect Day (1929) is ironic of course as Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy take their wives Mrs Laurel (Isabelle Keith) and Mrs Hardy (Kay Deslys) and gouty Uncle Edgar (Edgar Kennedy) out […]

Sep, 03

Picnic at Hanging Rock **** (1975, Rachel Roberts, Anne-Louise Lambert, Vivean Gray, Dominic Guard, Helen Morse, Jacki Weaver) – Classic Movie Review 7097

‘On St Valentine’s Day in 1900 a party of schoolgirls set out to picnic at Hanging Rock. Some were never to return.’ Miranda: ‘What we see and what we seem are but a dream, a […]

May, 26

Picnic **** (1955, William Holden, Kim Novak, Arthur O’Connell, Rosalind Russell, Susan Strasberg, Cliff Robertson, Betty Field, Nick Adams) – Classic Movie Review 5090

Director Joshua Logan’s heated and touching 1955 romantic drama is a high-powered version of William Inge’s Pulitzer prize-winning play about sexual turmoil in a small Kansas town. All the star players grab their chances to […]

Mar, 01

Rising Damp **½ (1980, Leonard Rossiter, Frances de la Tour, Don Warrington, Denholm Elliott, Christopher Strauli) – Classic Movie Review 4773

Happily, Leonard Rossiter gleefully re-creates his classic TV performance as the miserly, mean, vain, boastful, cowardly, racist landlord Rigsby in director Joe McGrath’s pleasant and amusing 1980 cinema movie version of the hit British TV […]

Dec, 08

Walkabout ***** (1971, Jenny Agutter, David Gulpilil, Luc Roeg, John Meillon) – Classic Movie Review 2991

Director/cinematographer Nicolas Roeg’s superb, haunting 1971 film Walkabout centres on a dangerous trek across the Australian desert by an English teenager (Jenny Agutter), her young brother (Lucien John, aka Luc Roeg) and the aboriginal boy […]

Oct, 18

A Letter to Three Wives **** (1949, Jeanne Crain, Linda Darnell, Ann Sothern, Kirk Douglas, Paul Douglas, Barbara Lawrence) – Classic Movie Review 2416

Writer-director Joseph L Mankiewicz (All About Eve, Cleopatra) won the Oscars for Best Director and Best Screenplay for his work on this delightful 1949 suburban satire, examining the thorny question of husband and wife relationships.  […]

Apr, 21

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