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Vampire in Venice [Nosferatu a Venezia] ** (1988, Klaus Kinski, Christopher Plummer, Donald Pleasence, Barbara De Rossi) – Classic Movie Review 3156

Klaus Kinski resurrects his role as the infamous vampire Nosferatu in writer-director Augusto Caminito’s visually impressive semi-sequel to Werner Herzog’s 1979 Nosferatu the Vampyre. In the story by Alberto Alfieri and Leandro Lucchetti, a splendidly […]

Dec, 15

Senso ***** (1954, Farley Granger, Alida Valli, Massimo Girotti, Heinz Moog) – Classic Movie Review 2410

One of the gay Marxist aristocrat Luchino Visconti’s greatest films, this highly emotional, elegantly staged and gorgeous-looking 1954 world cinema romantic masterpiece tells the story of the tragedy of an Italian woman who betrays her […]

Apr, 19

Casanova ***½ (2005, Heath Ledger, Sienna Miller, Jeremy Irons, Oliver Platt, Lena Olin) – Classic Movie Review 2131

Though hardly the most obvious casting, Aussie boy Heath Ledger is sexy, amusing and likeable as vintage Italian lover Giacomo Casanova in director Lasse Hallström’s lightweight but entertaining 2005 American romantic period romp Casanova, loosely based […]

Jan, 29

Everyone Says I Love You **** (1996, Woody Allen, Goldie Hawn, Julia Roberts) – Classic Movie Review 1800

In writer-director Woody Allen’s 1996 comedy, Everyone Says ‘I Loved Making This Movie’ but No One Says’ I Can Sing’. Joe (Allen) fancies pretty woman Von (Julia Roberts) in Venice in this quite delicious musical […]

Nov, 03

Don’t Look Now ***** (1973, Julie Christie, Donald Sutherland, Hilary Mason, Clelia Matania, Massimo Serato, Renato Scarpa, Leopoldo Trieste) – Classic Movie Review 681

The dazzling, chilling and eerily disturbing 1973 pyschic chiller Don’t Look Now, based on Daphne du Maurier’s story, is easily esteemed British director Nicolas Roeg’s most popular and successfully realised film. A perfectly paired Julie […]

Jan, 12

Summertime [Summer Madness] ***** (1955, Katharine Hepburn, Rossano Brazzi, Isa Miranda, Darren McGavin, Mari Aldon, André Morell, Jeremy Spenser) – Classic Movie Review 679

Director David Lean’s 1955 exquisite masterwork is a gloriously unashamed, full-throttled romance, in which Katharine Hepburn plays Jane Hudson, a visiting American spinster who enjoys a summer of chaste love with an old Italian smoothie […]

Jan, 12

The Talented Mr Ripley ****½ (1999, Matt Damon, Gwyneth Paltrow, Jude Law, Cate Blanchett, Philip Seymour Hoffman, James Rebhorn, Jack Davenport) – Classic Movie Review 41

With more subtlety, more noir, and an entirely different ending, the 1999 film The Talented Mr Ripley would be 100% brilliant. As it is, it’s still quite entrancing and mesmerising, with a dazzling cast pitch […]

Jul, 10

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