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What’s New Pussycat **** (1965, Peter Sellers, Peter O’Toole, Romy Schneider, Capucine, Ursula Andress, Paula Prentiss, Woody Allen) – Classic Movie Review 3891

Director Clive Donner’s 1965 comedy film is the quintessence of stylish, wacky Sixties nonsense. It is Woody Allen’s first film both as an actor and a writer, and stars Peter O’Toole as Michael James, an infamously compulsive […]

Jun, 19

Garde à Vue [The Inquisitor] **** (1981, Lino Ventura, Michel Serrault, Romy Schneider, Guy Marchand) – Classic Movie Review 3703

Co-writer/ director Claude Miller’s satisfying 1981 French police thriller is neatly done, atmospheric, gripping and very dark. It won four French César Awards in 1982 – Best Actor (Michel Serrault), Best Supporting Actor (Guy Marchand), Best Screenplay and Best Editing. Michel […]

May, 12

La Piscine [The Swimming Pool] *** (1969, Alain Delon, Romy Schneider, Maurice Ronet, Jane Birkin, Paul Crauchet) – Classic Movie Review 3346

Director Jacques Deray’s handsome looking 1969 drama stars the formidable quartet of Alain Delon, Romy Schneider, Maurice Ronet and Jane Birkin, who give mesmerising performances. In the screenplay by Jean-Emmanuel Conil, two men (Delon and Ronet) […]

Feb, 12

Ludwig **** (1972, Helmut Berger, Romy Schneider, Trevor Howard, Silvana Mangano, Helmut Griem, Gert Frobe, John Moulder-Brown) – Classic Movie Review 2234

Luchino Visconti’s masterly 1972 romantic historical film Ludwig is a gorgeous, extravagant, stirring toast to the mad 19th-century Bavarian king Ludwig II and to the handsome and magnetic star Helmut Berger. Co-writer/director Luchino Visconti’s masterly […]

Mar, 04

The Trial ****½ (1962, Anthony Perkins, Jeanne Moreau, Romy Schneider, Orson Welles, Elsa Martinelli) – Classic Movie Review 2141

Writer-director Orson Welles’s 1962 movie version of Franz Kafka’s novel about a man caught in a Kafkaesque bureaucratic red-tape legal nightmare is compelling, engrossing and spectacularly imaginative. Welles said with his usual modesty: ‘The Trial […]

Feb, 01

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