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The Private Affairs of Bel Ami **** (1947, George Sanders, Angela Lansbury, Ann Dvorak, Frances Dee, John Carradine, Hugo Haas, Marie Wilson, Albert Bassermann) – Classic Movie Review 4680

The weird and wonderful 1947 film The Private Affairs of Bel Ami is a witty version of Guy de Maupassant’s novel about a journalist trampling over women on the road to success. George Sanders gives […]

Nov, 21

Mr & Mrs Bridge **½ (1990, Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Robert Sean Leonard, Margaret Welsh, Kyra Sedgwick, Blythe Danner, Simon Callow, Austin Pendleton, Saundra McClain) – Classic Movie Review 4183

Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward star as an unyielding lawyer Walter Bridge and his pliant wife India Bridge in director James Ivory’s 1990 tale of an upper-class Kansas family between World War One and World […]

Aug, 16

Brideshead Revisited *** (2008, Ben Whishaw, Matthew Goode, Patrick Malahide, Hayley Atwell, Joseph Beattie, Felicity Jones, Emma Thompson, Michael Gambon) – Classic Movie Review 2941

Director Julian Jarrold’s conscientious, sumptuous and costly ($20 million) remake for the cinema of Brideshead Revisited in 2008 of the much loved 1981 classic of British TV drama Brideshead Revisited is an effective adaptation of […]

Oct, 02

Theorem [Teorema] ***½ (1968, Silvana Mangano, Terence Stamp, Massimo Girotti, Laura Betti, Anne Wiazemsky, Ninetto Davoli) – Classic Movie Review 2269

Director Pier Paolo Pasolini casts young Terence Stamp effectively as a good-looking stranger who satisfies all the members of a wealthy Milan family in his gently satisfying and intriguing 1968 poetic drama Theorem [Teorema]. The […]

Mar, 15

Look Back in Anger ***** (1959, Richard Burton, Mary Ure, Claire Bloom) – Classic Movie Review 1474

Director Tony Richardson admirably brings so-called ‘Angry Young Man’ playwright John Osborne’s famous, world-renowned play for London’s Royal Court Theatre to the screen in 1959 with all its challenging words, raging spirit and anti-establishment appeal […]

Jul, 26

Howards End ***** (1992, Anthony Hopkins, Emma Thompson, Vanessa Redgrave, Helena Bonham Carter, Samuel West, Prunella Scales, Jemma Redgrave, James Wilby) – Classic Movie Review 449

James Ivory’s triple Oscar-winning 1992 film is in many ways his masterpiece, certainly a close tie with The Remains of the Day (1993). Director Ivory and producer Ismail Merchant’s third adaptation of an E M […]

Nov, 25

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