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Posts Tagged "semi-autobiographical"

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Torch Song Trilogy **** (1988, Anne Bancroft, Matthew Broderick, Harvey Fierstein, Brian Kerwin, Karen Young) – Classic Movie Review 3377

‘It takes a lot of guts and a helluva sense of humour to live life in Arnold’s shoes.’ Tony Award-winning actor and playwright Harvey Fierstein adapts his own smash hit Broadway and London West End […]

Feb, 18

L’Amour a Vingt Ans [Love at 20] **** (1962, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Marie-France Pisier, Patrick Auffay) – Classic Movie Review 3020

Five directors from around the world present their different perspectives on what love is like at the age of 20 in a 1962 omnibus anthology of separate episodes united by their theme, the score of Georges […]

Oct, 31

Queen and Country **** (2014, Callum Turner, Caleb Landry Jones, David Thewlis, Richard E Grant, Pat Shortt, Sinéad Cusack) – Movie Review

Writer-director John Boorman’s sequel to his semi-autobiographical charmer Hope and Glory (1987) is an old-fashioned, civilised pleasure. Callum Turner stars as the grown up 19-year-old Bill Rohan who is drafted into the army, does basic training […]

Jun, 03

A Farewell To Arms **** (1932, Gary Cooper, Helen Hayes, Adolphe Menjou) – Classic Movie Review 1245

Director Frank Borzage in 1932 turns Ernest Hemingway’s complex, famous world-classic 1929 semi-autobiographical novel into a classy and stylish Hollywood romance. It won two Oscars and was nominated for best picture. Gary Cooper stars as […]

May, 24

Crooklyn (1994, Spike Lee) – Classic Film Review 896

Co-writer/director Spike Lee’s 1994 semi-autobiographical comedy-drama panorama of Brooklyn life in the Seventies, centring on one African-American family, is one of his least-praised, but most involving and best movies. Zelda Harris is remarkable as Troy, […]

Mar, 10

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