Movie Reviews Only
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| 5/5 | 97% | La Dolce Vita (1960) |
In spite of its thematic ugliness, this is a stunning-looking trawl through the Italian capital, with Ekberg's impromptu paddle in the Trevi fountain still the films enduring image.‐ Film4
Read More | Posted Apr 20, 2009
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| 98% | The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (Les Parapluies de Cherbourg) (1964) |
A truly unique and wonderful film from a director who stands apart in the French cinema canon.‐ Film4
Read More | Posted Jan 30, 2009
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| 100% | Holiday Inn (1942) |
Not the best film for either of the film's stars, but Astaire proves that he can dance even without Ginger.‐ Film4
Read More | Posted Dec 5, 2008
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| 3/5 | 67% | Paris (2008) |
[Klapisch] has created an imperfect but humane ode to his native city.‐ Film4
Read More | Posted Jul 22, 2008
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| 94% | West Side Story (1961) |
Technically stunning, with dazzling choreography matching an unforgettable score.‐ Film4
Read More | Posted Feb 19, 2008
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| 4/5 | 95% | An American in Paris (1951) |
It's a simple love story, but also a celebration of dance, music and art, embodied in the somewhat synthetic notion of Paris as the spiritual home of the arts, and the painterly aesthetic of the film as a whole.‐ Film4
Read More | Posted Feb 19, 2008
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| 47% | 1900 (Novecento) (1977) |
This is a handsome film with fierce and heartfelt ambition that succeeds in capturing something of the extreme social turmoil of pre-war Italy.‐ Film4
Read More | Posted Dec 7, 2007
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| 3.5/5 | 68% | The Magic Flute (2006) |
Flashes of inspiration but not enough, one suspects, to cause a stampeding horde of cinemagoers to beat down the doors of the Royal Opera House.‐ Film4
Read More | Posted Nov 30, 2007
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| 5/5 | 94% | It's a Wonderful Life (1946) |
You'd have to possess a very hard heart not to find something to love in this story.‐ Film4
Read More | Posted Nov 27, 2007
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| 3/5 | 93% | My Life to Live (It's My Life) (Vivre sa vie: Film en douze tableaux) (1962) |
Invigorating, revolutionary, joyfully iconoclastic and spontaneous.‐ Film4
Read More | Posted Oct 24, 2007
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| 100% | La Chinoise (1968) |
Prophetic, powerful, disconcerting, infuriating, and surprisingly funny.‐ Film4
Read More | Posted Oct 10, 2007
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| 100% | The Warui yatsu hodo yoku nemuru (The Bad Sleep Well) (1962) |
It's still as visually striking as anything you will see by this director.‐ Film4
Read More | Posted Jun 22, 2004
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| 95% | Johnny Guitar (1954) |
Compelling, confounding and at times verging on the downright camp, this picture takes a slow- burning but startlingly vivid look at humanity in the outlands.‐ Film4
Read More | Posted May 24, 2003
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| 92% | Oklahoma! (1955) |
Whatever your interest in the sexual politics of the 1950s musical, this is a good-looking, sweet-sounding piece that'll surely have you hot under the collar.‐ Film4
Read More | Posted May 24, 2003
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| 100% | Détective (1995) |
Jean-Luc Godard's hotel-based film noir borders on farce: as conventional as he gets, but still inventive, subversive and darkly comic.‐ Film4
Read More | Posted May 24, 2003
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| 94% | 2 ou 3 Choses que je Sais d'Elle (Two or Three Things I Know About Her) (1967) |
Electrifying sound and image collage of 24 hours in the life of a Parisian housewife by France's most difficult and defiant director, Jean-Luc Godard‐ Film4
Read More | Posted May 24, 2003
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