Derek Winnert

Veronika Voss [Die Sehnsucht der Veronika Voss] **** (1982, Rosel Zech, Hilmar Thate, Cornelia Froboess) – Classic Movie Review 6189

Rainer Werner Fassbinder revels in the film noir period atmosphere he uses to tell his compelling life story of the once hugely successful actress Veronika Voss (Rosel Zech), who is now in the early Fifties […]

Nov, 04 · in Uncategorized

A Bad Moms Christmas ** (2017, Mila Kunis, Kristen Bell, Kathryn Hahn, Christine Baranski, Susan Sarandon, Cheryl Hines, Jay Hernandez, Peter Gallagher) – Movie Review

Writer-directors Jon Lucas and Scott Moore just about hold onto this raucous and vulgar seasonal sequel to Bad Moms, though it drifts away from them every now and again, finally losing the plot altogether at the […]

Nov, 04 · in Uncategorized

Lola **** (1981, Barbara Sukowa, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Mario Adorf) – Classic Movie Review 6188

Barbara Sukowa stars as the Fifties scheming bordello singer Lola, who gets her claws into an upright politician (Armin Mueller-Stahl), in one of German director Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s most ambitious, imaginative, accessible and successful films. Sukowa […]

Nov, 04

Fox and His Friends [Faustrecht der Freiheit] **** (1975, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Peter Chatel, Karlheinz Böhm, Kurt Raab, Adrian Hoven, Harry Baer) – Classic Movie Review 6187

Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s bitter and revealing 1975 German film looks at how one minority group exploits others in an unpleasant tale of the survival of the fittest. Fassbinder himself plays Franz Biberkopf, aka Fox, a gay working […]

Nov, 04

Lili Marleen *** (1981, Hanna Schygulla, Giancarlo Giannini, Mel Ferrer) – Classic Movie Review 6186

Co-writer/ director Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s intriguing and stylish looking 1981 German film surprisingly overflows with sentiment and self-importance, and lacks the satiric bite and critical awareness of his best work. However, in other ways it […]

Nov, 04

Angi Vera **** (1979, Vera Pap, Erzsi Pásztor, Éva Szabó) – Classic Movie Review 6185

Co-writer/ director Pál Gábor attacks the Hungarian government of the day in his heartfelt tale of the rebellious young woman Vera (Veronika Papp) who tries to survive and prosper in the Stalin-era Hungary of 1948. Vera […]

Nov, 03

Murder on the Orient Express ** (2017, Kenneth Branagh, Penélope Cruz, Willem Dafoe, Michelle Pfeiffer, Josh Gad, Johnny Depp, Derek Jacobi, Judi Dench, Willem Dafoe) – Movie Review

Director Kenneth Branagh’s remake of the famous Agatha Christie murder mystery thriller Murder on the Orient Express is mostly stodgy, creaky and clunky, and finally unsatisfying, though his starry support cast are mostly welcome and it looks […]

Nov, 03

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