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Netflixable? Comfort Food Film is Always in Season, “Goodbye June”
Oscaar winner Kate Winslet directed and stars in “Goodbye June,” a sentimental and sharply-observed dramedy in which terrific performances and a couple of deeply emotional scenes overcome the glum predictability of it all. Because everybody knows the holidays are a … Continue reading
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Classic Film Review: Kingsley, Mirren and Dance scheme their way across “Pascali’s Island” (1988)
The decade after Ben Kingsley won the Oscar for his performance in the title role “Gandhi” was one of the most interesting of his storied, four-Oscar nomination career. He’d been a respected but mostly unknown player on Brit TV for … Continue reading
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Tagged art, ben-kingsley, charles-dance, cinema, classic-film-review, greece, helen-mirren, ottoman-empire, travel, turkey
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Classic Film Review: Was “Caligula” (1976, ’79, 2024) as bad as we remember?
No matter how scorned by one generation of film critics and/or filmgoers, once a movie is finished and preserved for all time there’s always a chance of “rediscovery” and reevaluation by film fans of the future. “Lost” films come back … Continue reading
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Tagged caligula, film, gielgud, guccione, helen-mirren, malcolm-mcdowell, peter-otoole, review, rome, vidal
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