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Celine and Julie Go Boating [Céline et Julie vont en bateau] **** (1974, Juliet Berto, Dominique Labourier, Bulle Ogier, Marie-France Pisier, Barbet Schroeder) – Classic Movie Review 7631
Director Jacques Rivette’s 1974 French surreal art film Céline and Julie Go Boating [Céline et Julie Vont en Bateau] stars Juliet Berto and Dominique Labourier as Céline and Julie, along with Bulle Ogier (as Camille), […]
The Last Temptation of Christ *** (1988, Willem Dafoe, Harvey Keitel, Barbara Hershey) – Classic Movie Review 7034
Director Martin Scorsese’s 1988 movie about the life of Jesus Christ is one of the most controversial films of the Eighties, and it is a daring, difficult and important work. It was greeted, expectedly, mainly […]
L A Story *** (1991, Steve Martin, Victoria Tennant, Richard E Grant ) – Classic Movie Review 6898
Director Mick Jackson’s funny and charming 1991 movie finds Steve Martin in romantic comedy mood with a sweet love poem to Los Angeles and his then British wife Victoria Tennant. He must have got it […]
Track 29 ** (1988, Theresa Russell, Gary Oldman, Christopher Lloyd, Sarah Bernhard, Colleen Camp, Seymour Cassell) – Classic Movie Review 6617
Unexpectedly, playwright Dennis Potter and director Nicolas Roeg join up for this steamy and interesting but ultimately unsatisfying 1987 Oedipal fantasy mystery drama set in a quiet North Carolina town. Theresa Russell stars as a […]
Seconds **** (1966, Rock Hudson, Will Geer, John Randolph, Salome Jens, Wesley Addy, Jeff Corey, Richard Anderson, Murray Hamilton, Karl Swenson) – Classic Movie Review 6248
Director John Frankenheimer’s splendid, showy 1966 Faustian sci-fi thriller offers an excellent chance for Rock Hudson to show his underrated acting skills as the unhappy middle-aged banker hero Tony Wilson, who goes to a creepy […]
Weekend ***** (1967, Mireille Darc, Jean Yanne, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Jean-Pierre Kalfon) – Classic Movie Review 5990
The thrilling 1967 post-modern black comedy movie Weekend is an outstanding example of French surreal avant-garde cinema from the prime of writer-director Jean-Luc Godard, in which Mireille Darc and Jean Yanne play a Parisian married couple, […]
A Close Shave **** (1995, voices of Peter Sallis, Anne Reid) – Classic Movie Review 5562
Co-writer/ director Nick Park’s 30-minute Aardman 1995 Wallace and Gromit cartoon adventure – this time involving window-cleaners and sheep-sealers – is constantly inventive and hilarious. It won its maker Nick Park his third Oscar for […]