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Life of Riley [Aimer, boire et chanter] **** (2014, Sabine Azéma, Hippolyte Girardot, Caroline Sihol) – Movie Review
Aimer, boire et chanter (Life of Riley) is the last film of great French director Alain Resnais, who died on March 1 2014, aged 91. He was perhaps best known for known for Night and Fog (1955), Hiroshima Mon […]
In the Bleak Midwinter **** (1995, Michael Maloney, Richard Briers, Joan Collins, Jennifer Saunders, Celia Imrie) – Classic Movie Review 2185
Writer-director Kenneth Branagh’s 1995 movie is a beautifully realised, funny, perceptive comedy drama look at the British thespian game. In Branagh’s story, a resting, out of work actor called Joe Harper (Michael Maloney) battles to stage a […]
Henry V **** (1989, Kenneth Branagh, Derek Jacobi, Judi Dench, Emma Thompson) – Classic Movie Review 2092
Director Kenneth Branagh’s gritty 1989 film version of the play by William Shakespeare is a labour of love and a tour de force. Branagh, in his directorial debut, received Oscar nominations for Best Actor and […]
An Awfully Big Adventure ** (1995, Hugh Grant, Alan Rickman, Georgina Cates, Peter Firth, Alun Armstrong, Prunella Scales, Rita Tushingham, Nicola Pagett) – Classic Movie Review 1248
Hugh Grant and his director Mike Newell reunite in 1995 for An Awfully Big Adventure after their worldwide hit Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994) for a much less winning outing – more of a […]
Synecdoche, New York **** (2008, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Samantha Morton, Michelle Williams, Catherine Keener, Hope Davis, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Dianne Wiest) – Classic Movie Review 799
Philip Seymour Hoffman gives a tour-de-force as Caden Cotard, a terminally ill theatre director who struggles with his work and his women. Offered a grant, he decides to turn his life into art, and to […]
Bullets over Broadway ***** (1994, John Cusack, Dianne Wiest, Jennifer Tilly) – Classic Movie Review 347
This glittering old-style comedy from an on-form writer-director Woody Allen dazzled us in 1994. Unfortunately he doesn’t appear this time, but he’s ensured that a great ensemble cast does. The story takes place in 1920s […]