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Diary of a Lost Girl [Tagebuch einer Verlorenen] ***** (1929, Louise Brooks, André Roanne, Josef Rovenský, Fritz Rasp) – Classic Movie Review 8733

Director Georg Wilhelm Pabst’s deservedly much admired German late-period silent cult favourite 1929 Diary of a Lost Girl [Das Tagebuch einer Verlorenen] stars Louise Brooks as a sweet young rich gal Thymiane, who goes downhill […]

Jul, 19

A Return to Salem’s Lot *** (1987, Michael Moriarty, Samuel Fuller, Ricky Addison Reed) – Classic Movie Review 8297

Co-writer/ director Larry Cohen’s 1987 horror movie A Return to Salem’s Lot is a lively, offbeat, low-budget chiller spun off very loosely from the Stephen King novel Salem’s Lot and 1979 mini-series film Salem’s Lot. […]

Mar, 26

Mystery Street **** (1950, Ricardo Montalban, Sally Forrest, Elsa Lanchester, Bruce Bennett, Marshall Thompson, Jan Sterling, Edmon Ryan, Betsy Blair) – Classic Movie Review 8146

Director John Sturges’s 1950 Mystery Street is a well-plotted, fascinating police procedural film noir crime thriller, with Ricardo Montalban, Sally Forrest, Elsa Lanchester, Bruce Bennett, Marshall Thompson, Jan Sterling, Edmon Ryan and Betsy Blair starring. […]

Feb, 18

If Beale Street Could Talk *** (2018, KiKi Layne, Stephan James, Regina King, Diego Luna, Finn Wittrock, Dave Franco, Ed Skrein) – Movie Review

Writer-director Barry Jenkins’s drama If Beale Street Could Talk is based on James Baldwin’s novel about the newly engaged young Harlem woman Tish Rivers (KiKi Layne), who tries to prove her jailed fiancé Fonny (Stephan […]

Feb, 09

Roma ***** (2018, Yalitza Aparicio, Marina de Tavira, Diego Cortina Autrey) – Movie Review

Writer-director Alfonso Cuarón’s Mexican masterpiece Roma (2018) is a magnificent movie, brilliantly staged, and gloriously realised in gorgeous black and white scope images, with a warm and winning saga, highlighted by a couple of heart-stopping […]

Dec, 10

The Story of Qiu Ju [Qiu Ju da guan si] **** (1992, Gong Li, Liu Peiqi, Yang Liuchun, Lei Kesheng) – Classic Movie Review 7881

Director Zhang Yimou’s 1992 The Story of Qiu Ju [Qiu Ju da guan si] is a strongly allegorical tale from the director of Red Sorghum, Ju Dou and Raise the Red Lantern, which differs from […]

Dec, 04

The Tunnel of Love *** (1958, Doris Day, Richard Widmark, Gig Young, Gia Scala) – Classic Movie Review 7685

Director Gene Kelly’s 1958 comedy The Tunnel of Love stars Doris Day and Richard Widmark as Isolde and Augie Poole, who are having more than their fair share of problems trying to adopt a child, […]

Oct, 21

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