Derek Winnert

Posts Tagged "absurd humour"

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L’Age d’Or ***** (1930, Gaston Modot, Lya Lys, Caridad de Laberdesque) – Classic Movie Review 10,939

Director Luis Buñuel’s still provocative, vital and amusing 1930 avant-garde Surrealist masterpiece early work L’Age d’Or [The Golden Age] intends to shock and provoke as it sends up the hypocrisies of organised religion and bourgeois society, […]

Feb, 19

The Jerk *** (1979, Steve Martin, Bernadette Peters, Catlin Adams, Jackie Mason) – Classic Movie Review 6894

‘He was a poor black sharecropper’s son who never dreamed he was adopted. A rags to riches to rags story.’ Director Carl Reiner’s 1979 comedy The Jerk stars Steve Martin in his broad, uneasy first […]

Apr, 07

Pink Flamingos *** (1973, Divine, David Lochary, Mink Stole, Mary Vivian Pearce) – Classic Movie Review 4097)

‘We’ll see who’s the filthiest person alive! We’ll just see!’ – Connie Marble. Writer-director-cinematographer John Waters’s shocking, divinely decadent early 1973 movie is gleefully cheap, cheerful and amateurish in the Andy Warhol vein, and showcases […]

Jul, 28

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