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The Bride Wore Black [La mariée était en noir] **** (1967, Jeanne Moreau, Jean-Claude Brialy, Michel Bouquet, Charles Denner, Claude Rich, Michel Lonsdale, Daniel Boulanger) – Classic Movie Review 2,588
François Truffaut’s 1968 salute to Alfred Hitchcock, the French thriller film The Bride Wore Black, is a richly enjoyable, quirky entertainment. Jeanne Moreau is on great form as a widow who sets out to kill […]
Witness for the Prosecution **** (1957, Tyrone Power, Marlene Dietrich, Charles Laughton, Elsa Lanchester, John Williams, Una O’Connor, Henry Daniell, Ian Wolfe) – Classic Movie Review 2576
Co-writer/director Billy Wilder’s excellent 1957 movie version of Agatha Christie’s ingenious if a shade creaky London-set courtroom thriller is witty, suspenseful and hugely entertaining. Christie’s 1952 international stage success is based on her 1925 short story Traitor’s […]
The Winter Guest **** (1997, Phyllida Law, Emma Thompson, Sheila Reid) – Classic Movie Review 2396
Alan Rickman’s highly impressive and moving debut as director stars real-life mother and daughter Phyllida Law and Emma Thompson as a screen mother and daughter. It won three awards at the Venice Film Festival. including Best Actress for Thompson. […]
Starman ****½ (1984, Jeff Bridges, Karen Allen, Charles Martin Smith, Richard Jaeckel) – Classic Movie Review 2043
Director John Carpenter delivers a stupendous, electrifying 1984 adult sci-fi fairy tale that’s tense, touching and thrilling throughout. Bruce A Evans, Raynold Gideon and Dean Reisner’s screenplay follows the story of the titular alien Starman, […]
The Face of Love ***½ (2014, Annette Bening, Ed Harris, Robin Williams) – Movie Review
Annette Bening is happily married to her perfect partner in Ed Harris, who promptly dies. A couple of years later she meets and falls for an artist/ teacher (also played by Ed Harris), a man who […]
Up at the Villa *** (2000, Kristin Scott Thomas, Sean Penn, Anne Bancroft) – Classic Movie Review 1709
Director Philip Haas’s beautiful-looking but shaky 2000 romantic drama stars Kristin Scott Thomas and Sean Penn. Scott Thomas plays Mary Panton, a holidaying English widow who faces a series of dramas and choices in 1938 Florence, […]
The Mother **** (2003, Anne Reid, Daniel Craig, Peter Vaughan) – Classic Movie Review 1422
Director Roger Michell’s 2003 drama is a challenging, taboo-breaking eye-opener, with a provocative, poignant screenplay by Hanif Kureishi and marvellous, bold performances by Anne Reid and Daniel Craig. The husband (Peter Vaughan) of an English woman (Reid) […]