Starring: Victor Sjostrom, Hilda Borgstrom, Tore Svennberg Director: Victor Sjostrom On New Years Eve, a drunk is faced with his mortality and his selfishness when the driver of a phantom carriage takes him on the ride of his life. This film is startlingly dark and beautiful, with imagery which is quite creepy. The use of… Continue reading Classic Movie Of The Week: Korkarlen / The Phantom Carriage (1921)
Starring: Kurt Russell, Darby Camp, Judah Lewis, Goldie Hawn, Director: Clay Kaytis Since their father died, Christmas hasn't been the same for the Pierce family. But when Teddy and Kate are left alone on Christmas Eve, their plan to try to capture Santa Claus on camera leads them on a wild adventure to help Santa… Continue reading The Christmas Chronicles (2018)
Starring: Celia Johnson, Trevor Howard, Stanley Holloway Director: David Lean Laura (Johnson) is a housewife who is relatively happy until she meets Alec (Howard), a doctor, unexpectedly at a train station. They feel an immediate and strong connection, but since they are married they can't be together. The only time they have together are a… Continue reading Classic Movie Of The Week: Brief Encounter (1946)
Starring: Viola Davis, Liam Neeson, Michelle Rodriguez, Elizabeth Debicki, Cynthia Erivo, Colin Farrell, Daniel Kaluuya, Jacki Weaver, Carrie Coon, Robert Duvall Director: Steve McQueen Three women are left widowed and in financial dire straits when their robber husbands are killed in a heist gone wrong. When a powerful crime king pin, who is also running… Continue reading Widows (2018)
Starring: Susan Sarandon, Burt Lancaster, Kate Reid, Director: Louis Malle Altantic City, with it's crumbling buildings and casino lifestyle is a sort of metaphor for the kinds of lives that are lived there. Lou (Lancaster) likes to talk about the days when he was younger, when he fancied he was a big player in the… Continue reading Classic Movie Of The Week: Atlantic City (1980)
Starring: Jovan Adepo, Wyatt Russell, Mathilde Ollivier, Pilou Asbaek Director: Julius Avery Boyce (Adepo) is a US soldier dropped into occupied France towards the end of the war. As most of his unit are killed, he finds himself and a few other survivors following Ford (Russell) a hardened soldier on a mission to take down… Continue reading Overlord (2018)
Starring: Lauren Bacall, Humphrey Bogart, Walter Brennan, Hoagy Carmichael. Director: Howard Hughes Martinique, 1944, Harry (Bogart) and his alcoholic friend Eddie (Brennan) run a some what shady operation of a boat for hire. When a job falls through, they find themselves forced to take on a job for the Resistance, but they might have bitten… Continue reading Classic Movie Of The Week: To Have And Have Not (1944)
Starring: Clint Eastwood, Eli Wallach, Lee Van Cleef Director: Sergio Leone That scene where three men face off in a graveyard, each with guns drawn, and close ups on shifting eyes and trigger fingers, which has often been homaged in films since, comes from this iconic Western. It's the story of three men, in a… Continue reading Classic Movie Of The Week: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly (1966)
Starring: Dakota Johnson, Tilda Swinton, Chloe Grace Moretz, Mia Goth Director: Luca Guadagnino In a divided Berlin in 1977, women at a famous dance studio prepare for a key performance. But something is not right at the studio. Patricia (Moretz) has mysteriously disappeared after making strange comments that there is some very dark goings on… Continue reading Suspiria (2018)
Starring: Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Victor Moore, Helen Broderick, Betty Furness Director: George Stevens Lucky Garnett (Astaire) is a performer who needs money to marry his fiance (Furness). Heading to New York City to raise the funds, he stumbles across Penny (Rogers), a woman with dreams of making it as a dancer and who… Continue reading Classic Movie Of The Week: Swing Time (1936)
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