Showing posts with label Ingrid Bergman. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ingrid Bergman. Show all posts

Thursday, 30 March 2023

Hedda Gabler (1962)


 

A scheming woman marries a nice but dimwitted intellectual out of convenience. She hears that her old lover is back in town. She decides to destroy his life, jealous of his love affair with another.

A TV production with a stellar cast, in which Ingrid Bergman shines the best, is unfortunately a brutally condensed, stubbed up adaptation of the classic play.  



 

 

Monday, 8 February 2021

Casablanca (1942)


A cynical American expatriate struggles to decide whether or not he should help his former lover and her fugitive husband escape French Morocco.

A true masterpiece of Hollywood cinema has perfection in all departments putting together a heartfelt and moving melodrama of its time and yet has become timeless work of cinematic art.

Halliwell****: "Cinema par excellence: a studio-bound Hollywood melodrama which after various chances just fell together impeccably into one of the outstanding entertainment experiences of cinema history, with romance, intrigue, excitement, suspense and humour cunningly deployed by master technicians and a perfect cast."

Maltin****: "Everything is right in this WW2 classic of war-torn Morocco...Rains is marvelous...and nobody sings "As Time Goes By" like Dooley Wilson...Our candidate for the best Hollywood movie of all time."  



Saturday, 12 December 2015