Derek Winnert

Reviews

Face to Face [Ansikte mot ansikte] **** (1976, Liv Ullmann, Erland Josephson, Aino Taube, Gunnar Björnstrand) – Classic Movie Review 10,893

Writer-producer-director Ingmar Bergman deals with his own angst about failing relationships in the 1976 Swedish drama Face to Face [Ansikte mot ansikte], one of two TV movies/films he made at around this time (the other […]

Feb, 08

An Italian Straw Hat [Un chapeau de paille d’Italie] **** (1928, Albert Préjean, Olga Tschechowa, Geymond Vital, Paul Ollivier, Alice Tissot, Alexej Bondireff, Marise Maia) – Classic Movie Review 10,892

Director René Clair’s delightful 1928 black and white silent movie satirical comedy An Italian Straw Hat [Un Chapeau de Paille D’Italie], attacking the pettiness of the bourgeoisie of the 1900s, revolves around an Italian straw […]

Feb, 07

The Sting II *** (1983, Jackie Gleason, Mac Davis, Teri Garr, Karl Malden, Oliver Reed) – Classic Movie Review 10,888

Director Jeremy Paul Kagan’s 1983 The Sting II is the belated, virtually ignored sequel to the 1973 blockbuster The Sting, a whole decade after the first, with the same writer David S Ward but alas […]

Feb, 06

Stop, You’re Killing Me *** (1952, Broderick Crawford, Claire Trevor, Virginia Gibson, Bill Hayes, Margaret Dumont ) – Classic Movie Review 10,885

Director Roy Del Ruth’s 1953 black comedy WarnerColor film Stop, You’re Killing Me stars Broderick Crawford as Remy Marko, a racketeering Prohibition-era hood who tries to clean up his act by opening an honest brewery […]

Feb, 06

Stop the World: I Want to Get Off *** (1966, Tony Tanner, Millicent Martin, Leila Croft) – Classic Movie Review 10,884

Director Philip Savile’s 1966 Stop the World: I Want to Get Off is a funny and appealing, if creaky old Technicolor film of Anthony Newley’s memorable swinging sixties, experimental avant-garde stage musical, set against a […]

Feb, 05

Stop Press Girl ** (1949, Sally Ann Howes, Gordon Jackson, Basil Radford, Naunton Wayne, James Robertson Justice) – Classic Movie Review 10,883

Director Michael Barry’s 1949 black and white British B-film Stop Press Girl is a slack would-be fantasy about an attractive psychic young woman called Jennifer Peters (Sally Ann Howes) who can stop all kinds of […]

Feb, 05

The Hills Have Eyes Part II * (1984, Tamara Stafford, Kevin Spirtas, John Bloom, Michael Berryman, Penny Johnson, Janus Blythe, John Laughlin, Willard E Pugh, Peter Frechette, Robert Houston) – Classic Movie Review 10,882

Writer-director Wes Craven’s cheaply made, troubled 1984 low budget cannibal horror film sequel The Hills Have Eyes Part II stars Michael Berryman, Tamara Stafford, Kevin Blair, John Bloom, John Laughlin, Janus Blythe, Kevin Spirtas, Penny […]

Feb, 05

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