Derek Winnert

In a Year with 13 Moons [In einem Jahr mit 13 Monden] *** (1978, Volker Spengler, Ingrid Caven, Gottfried John) – Classic Movie Review 6203

Writer-producer-director Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s typically dark and gloomy 1978 film tells an upsetting tale of emotional and financial explotation. It gets Fassbinder’s most bravura handling with severe lighting, strange camera angles and dissonant music. Volker […]

Nov, 07 · in Uncategorized

Chinese Roulette [Chinesisches Roulette] *** (1976, Anna Karina, Margit Carstensen, Brigitte Mira, Macha Méril, Ulli Lommel, Volker Spengler) – Classic Movie Review 6202

The bleak 1976 West German psychological drama film Chinese Roulette [Chinesisches Roulette] is written and directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder. It stars actors from Fassbinder’s regular ensemble – Margit Carstensen, Brigitte Mira, Volker Spengler and Ulli Lommel –  plus (because […]

Nov, 07 · in Reviews

Jane and the Lost City ** (1987, Kirsten Hughes, Sam J Jones, Maud Adams, Jasper Carrott, Robin Bailey, Graham Stark, Elsa O’Toole) – Classic Movie Review 6201

Director Terry Marcel’s 1987 British action adventure comedy Jane and the Lost City stars Kirsten Hughes, Sam J Jones (aka Flash Gordon), Maud Adams, Jasper Carrott, Robin Bailey, Graham Stark and Elsa O’Toole. In World War Two, […]

Nov, 06

Golden Balls [Huevos de Oro] **** (1993, Javier Bardem, Elisa Tovati, Maribel Verdú, Maria de Medeiros, Raquel Bianca, Alessandro Gassman, Benicio Del Toro) – Classic Movie Review 6195

Co-writer/ director Bigas Luna’s 1993 Spanish movie is a successful black comedy melodrama in his follow-up to his hit Jamón, Jamón (1992). But it is even more consistently successful and confident than Jamón, Jamón, and […]

Nov, 06

Jamón, Jamón **** (1992, Penélope Cruz, Stefania Sandrelli, Anna Galiena, Javier Bardem) – Classic Movie Review 6194

Co-writer/ director Bigas Luna’s saucy, sexy and provocative 1992 comedy is an intense, bawdy Latin sex farce awash with stereotypically Spanish macho hunks and nymphets in tight dresses, who spend their lives in dirt-covered rural […]

Nov, 06

Amityville II: The Possession ** (1982, James Olson, Burt Young, Rutanya Alda, Jack Magner) – Classic Movie Review 6200

The Long Island haunted house from 1979’s The Amityville Horror tries to tingle the spines of the Montelli Italian-American family, who make the mistake of moving into the home built on an ancient Indian burial ground, in […]

Nov, 06

A Bullet for the General **** [Quién sabe?] (1967, Gian Maria Volontè, Klaus Kinski, Lou Castel, Martine Beswick) – Classic Movie Review 6199

‘When the bullet turns red… the General will be dead!’ Director Damiano Damiani’s riveting 1967 Italian adult Western with typical spaghetti violence was belatedly introduced to Britain in 1990, thanks to the BBC2 TV Moviedrome […]

Nov, 06

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