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The Trials of Oscar Wilde **** (1960, Peter Finch, Yvonne Mitchell, James Mason, John Fraser, Lionel Jeffries, Nigel Patrick) – 7237

Director Ken Hughes’s sterling 1960 biopic The Trials of Oscar Wilde is one of two films released at the same time about the dramatist, who was hounded, persecuted and martyred for his homosexuality. It was beaten […]

Jun, 30

Marjorie Morningstar ** (1958, Natalie Wood, Gene Kelly, Claire Trevor, Everett Sloane, Martin Milner, Carolyn Jones, Martin Balsam, Edd Byrnes, George Tobias, Jesse White, Paul Picerni, Ruta Lee, Shelley Fabares) – Classic Movie Review 6317

Director Irving Rapper’s intriguing and glossy but uncomfortable 1958 romantic drama film adaptation of The Winds of War writer Herman Wouk’s sincere novel – surprisingly at the time the most-read book since Gone with the Wind – […]

Nov, 26

Bells Are Ringing **** (1960, Judy Holliday, Dean Martin, Fred Clark, Eddie Foy Jr, Frank Gorshin, Jean Stapleton) – Classic Movie Review 5689

In her last film, the enchanting Oscar-winning actress Judy Holliday revives her great Broadway role (with nearly 1,000 performances) as Ella Peterson, a telephonist who interferes in her callers’ affairs and falls for the playwright […]

Jul, 01

Design for Living *** (1933, Fredric March, Gary Cooper, Miriam Hopkins) – Classic Movie Review 5419

Noël Coward’s enjoyably ambiguous ménage à trois play gets the famous golden touch from producer-director Ernst Lubitsch, in this light-hearted, fairly sparkling 1933 movie version of a great sophisticated night in the theatre. The star […]

May, 07

Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood *** (2002, Sandra Bullock, Ashley Judd, Ellen Burstyn, Maggie Smith, James Garner, Fionnula Flanagan, Shirley Knight, Angus Macfadyen) – Classic Movie Review 5009

A total chick-flick is on the menu as some of the screen’s mightiest ladies gather for co-writer/ director Callie Khouri’s heartwarming, life-affirming 2002 Southern saga, set in a sleepy Louisiana small town. Sandra Bullock is […]

Feb, 05

The Group **** (1966, Candice Bergen, Joan Hackett, Elizabeth Hartman, Shirley Knight, Joanna Pettet, Jessica Walter, Kathleen Widdoes, Larry Hagman, Hal Holbrook) – Classic Movie Review 4705

Mary McCarthy’s Sixties voguish novel about the lives of eight 1933 Vassar-style Ivy-League private girls’ college graduates was one of the popular literary hits of the day and the inevitable 1966 movie version proves an […]

Nov, 26

Looking for Richard **** (1996, Al Pacino, Alec Baldwin, Kevin Spacey) – Classic Movie Review 4189

Al Pacino’s super 1996 home movie documentary on William Shakespeare’s play Richard III and its meaning and significance is a riveting mix of documentary and drama. His cameras follow an all-star cast and crew throughout […]

Aug, 17

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