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Classic Film Review: A Catfight for the (Middle) Ages — “The Lion in Winter” (1968)
It was a gilded age for high-minded British cinema, of larger than life actors taking on epics as heroes and antiheroes — a life of “Lawrence of Arabia,” “Becket,” “Cromwell,” a dash or two of Shakespeare, and “A Man for … Continue reading
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Tagged anythony-hopkins, books, british-cinema, england, excalibur, france, historical-fiction, history, katharine-hepburn, peter-otoole
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Classic Film Review: An English Child’s Eye View of WWII — “Hope and Glory
There’s a glorious nostalgia to the great British director John Boorman’s World War II memoir, “Hope and Glory.” The sentiment is what sticks with you, a naive child’s memories of not the fear, violence and loss, but of the freedom, … Continue reading
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Tagged british-cinema, charley-boorman, classic-film-review, john-boorman, sarah-miles, world-war-ii-films
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Classic Film Review: Pinter, Losey and Bogarde wind up the Clockwork Creepiness of “The Servant”(1963)
It’s been so long since I reviewed anything scripted by Nobel laureate Harold Pinter that I had to refresh my memory about the traits associated with the phrase “Pinteresque.” Let’s see, an “atmosphere of menace,” suspense and tension heightened by … Continue reading
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Tagged bogarde, british-cinema, classic-film-review, film, losey, movies, pinter, Reviews, sarah-miles
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Classic Film Review: Brit Noir, Warner Bros. style — “They Made Me a Fugitive (I Became a Criminal)” (1948)
Here’s a flashy, violent British film noir in the classic Warner Bros. fashion, an on-the-lam thriller set in the postwar U.K. underworld where a war hero pays the price for going wrong. “They Made Me A Fugitive,” the film that … Continue reading
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Tagged british-cinema, film-noir, movie-review, movies, Reviews, trevor-howard, tubi, warner-bros
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