Derek Winnert

Fear Eats the Soul [Angst Essen Seele Auf] ***** (1973, Brigitte Mira, El Hedi ben Salem, Irm Hermann, Barbara Valentin) – Classic Movie Review 6198

Writer-director Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s 1973 drama is one of his greatest films, a straightforward account of an unlikely love affair between a 60-year-old Munich charlady (the splendid Brigitte Mira) and a 30-year-old Moroccan immigrant worker […]

Nov, 06 · in Uncategorized

Love Is Colder Than Death [Liebe ist kälter als der Tod] *** (1969, Ulli Lommel, Hanna Schygulla, Rainer Werner Fassbinder) – Classic Movie Review 6197

Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s chilly and attractively unusual 1969 low budget German black-and-white film is his first feature, valuable as an interesting apprentice work of this important director. It tells a dour and doomy noir-style gangster story, as seen through […]

Nov, 06 · in Uncategorized

The Merchant of Four Seasons [Händler der vier Jahreszeiten] **** (1972, Hans Hirschmüller, Irm Hermann, Hanna Schygulla) – Classic Movie Review 6192

Writer-director Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s 1971 German film is his earliest success and arguably first masterwork. Hard work but rewarding, it is a credibly written and performed assault on middle-class values, with the director’s typical mix […]

Nov, 06

Lili **** (1953, Leslie Caron, Mel Ferrer, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Kurt Kasznar, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Amanda Blake, Alex Gerry) – Classic Movie Review 6196

Director-choreographer Charles Walters’s captivating, Oscar-winning 1953 MGM musical stars Leslie Caron as the naive French orphan and teenager Lili. She joins a travelling carnival as a waitress and meets a sad puppeteer called Paul (Mel Ferrer) […]

Nov, 05

Lilith **** (1964, Warren Beatty, Jean Seberg, Peter Fonda, Kim Hunter, Jessica Walter, Gene Hackman) – Classic Movie Review 6191

Writer-producer-director Robert Rossen’s polished 1964 drama stars Warren Beatty, Jean Seberg and Peter Fonda, and is based on J R Salamanca’s novel of love, madness, creativity, jealousy, unrequited love and incestuous desire. Everybody seems to be battling – if […]

Nov, 05

Lola ** (1986, Ángela Molina, Patrick Bauchau, Féodor Atkine, Assumpta Serna, Carme Sansa, Pepa López) – Classic Movie Review 6193

Angela Molina gives a powerful performance as the titular Lola, a factory worker who suffers at the hands of her sadistic lover Mario (Féodor Atkine), in co-writer/ director Bigas Luna’s dour, dubbed Spanish suspense thriller. […]

Nov, 05

Lola Montès **** (1955, Martine Carol, Peter Ustinov, Anton Walbrook) – Classic Movie Review 6190

Director Max Ophüls creates one of his most poignant works in this 1955 film fantasia on the life of the celebrated Irish dancer, courtesan and femme fatale Lola Montès (1821–1861). As Lola, Martine Carol provides […]

Nov, 05

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