Derek Winnert

Manon des Sources [Manon of the Spring] **** (1952, Jacqueline Pagnol, Rellys, Henri Poupon) – Classic Movie Review 6655

Writer/ producer/ director Marcel Pagnol’s beautiful original 1952 film version of one of his haunting excursions through village life in Provence makes for epic French cinema. The director’s wife Jacqueline Pagnol stars in an autobiographical […]

Feb, 06 · in Reviews

Manon **** (1949, Cécile Aubry, Michel Auclair, Serge Reggiani) – Classic Movie Review 6654

Director Henri-Georges Clouzot’s impressive and engrossing 1949 film version of Abbé Prévost’s classic novel Manon Lescault is updated to post-World War Two France, and a situation close to his heart, persecution for collaborating with the […]

Feb, 05 · in Reviews

L’Assassin Habite au 21 [The Murderer Lives at Number 21] **** (1942, Pierre Fresnay, Suzy Delair, Jean Tissier, Noël Roquevert, Pierre Larquey) – Classic Movie Review 6653

This excellent, highly sympathetic, thriller-cum-character study comedy comes from co-writer/ director Henri-Georges Clouzot, the maker of Les Diaboliques, making a strong impression with his first solo film as director. Pierre Fresnay stars as Le Commissaire […]

Feb, 05

Lies We Tell ** (2017, Gabriel Byrne, Sibylla Deen, Jan Uddin, Mark Addy, Harvey Keitel, Gina McKee) – Movie Review

Gabriel Byrne gives an earnest, capable star turn as Donald, a trusted, old-school driver, whose job is it to deal with his dead boss Demi (Harvey Keitel)’s affairs – in particular his Muslim mistress Amber […]

Feb, 05

Winchester *** (2018, Helen Mirren, Jason Clarke, Sarah Snook, Finn Scicluna-O’Prey) – Movie Review

Dressed in black widow’s gown and veil, Helen Mirren relishes her weird role as the crazily eccentric firearms-manufacturer heiress Sarah Winchester, who believes that she and her mansion are haunted by the souls of people killed […]

Feb, 05

The Walking Dead **** (1936, Boris Karloff, Edmund Gwenn, Marguerite Churchill, Ricardo Cortez, Henry O’Neill, Barton MacLane) – Classic Movie Review 6652

‘BACK FROM THE DEAD!’ ‘HOW CAN A MAN AVENGE HIS OWN MURDER?’ Director Michael Curtiz’s lusty handled, eerily scary 1936 Warner Bros horror movie stars Boris Karloff as pianist ex-con John Ellman, a convicted killer […]

Feb, 04

Beverly Hills Cop III ** (1994, Eddie Murphy, Hector Elizondo, Judge Reinhold, John Saxon, Bronson Pinchot, Theresa Randle, Jon Tenney, Joey Travolta) – Classic Movie Review 6651

The scrappy 1994 third Beverly Hills Cop movie is by turns off-puttingly violent and stupidly slapstick, though it is helped along with capable, slick direction from John Landis and the thinly appealing, lightly professional performances. […]

Feb, 04

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