Tag Archives: New Wave

Tiger Bay (1959) and Hayley Mills

Posted on April 17, 2024 by Mark DuPré

My first celebrity crush was blonde ingenue Hayley Mills. If you are older or have seen old Disney movies, you may remember her from 1960’s Pollyanna and/or 1961’s The Parent Trap—the original one. Those were probably the first two films … Continue reading →

Posted in Film Reviews, Older Films | Tagged A Fistful of Dollars, Anton Yelchin, BAFTA, Brittany Murphy, Chadwick Boseman, Clint Eastwood, David Lean, entertainment, film, Great Expectations, Hayley Mills, Heath Ledger, Hollywood, Horst Buchholz, In Which We Serve, J. Lee Thompson, James Dean, John Mills, kitchen-sink drama, Life is Beautiful, Liza Minnelli, movies, New Wave, news, Noel Coward, Omar Shariff, Pollyanna, River Phoenix, Roy Boulting, Ryan's Daughter, So Well Remembered, The Guns of Navarone, The Magnificent Seven, The Parent Trap, West Side Story, Whistle Down the Wind | Leave a comment

The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (Les parapluies de Cherbourg) (French, 1964)

Posted on September 6, 2021 by Mark DuPré

DNow is probably the right time to take a first or second look at The Umbrellas of Cherbourg. There is nothing else like it, not even writer-director Jacques Demy’s next film, The Young Girls of Rochefort, and that one starred … Continue reading →

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Two Women (1960/1961)

Posted on December 31, 2017 by Mark DuPré

Two Women is fascinating for two reasons. One, it is the film that brought Sophia Loren her Academy Award for Best Actress, the first for a foreign-language performance. (Since then, there have been awards for Roberto Benigni for Life is … Continue reading →

Posted in Film Reviews, Older Films | Tagged Angelina Jolie, Benicio Del Toro, Bicycle Thieves, Breathless, Catherine Zeta Jones, Cesare Zavattini, Charlize Theron, dubbing, Elizabeth Taylor, French New Wave, Godfather Part Two, Ingrid Bergman Grace Kelly, Jean-Paul Belmondo, La Vie en Rose, Life is Beautiful, Marion Cotillard, Miracle in Milan, Natalie Portman, neorealism, neorealist, New Wave, Penelope Cruz, Rachel Weisz, Robert De Niro, Roberto Benigni, Scarlet Johansson, Shoeshine, Sophia Loren, Traffic, Two Women, Umberto D., Vittorio de Sica, Vivien Leigh | Leave a comment

Tag Archives: New Wave

Tiger Bay (1959) and Hayley Mills

The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (Les parapluies de Cherbourg) (French, 1964)

Two Women (1960/1961)

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