Derek Winnert

Call Me by Your Name ***** (2017, Armie Hammer, Timothée Chalamet, Michael Stuhlbarg, Amira Casar, Esther Garrel) – Movie Review

Director Luca Guadagnino’s gloriously, unashamedly, outrageously romantic gay movie coming-of-age tale of first love Call Me by Your Name is based on André Aciman’s acclaimed debut novel published in 2007. This is one heck of […]

Oct, 09 · in Uncategorized

Masculin Féminin **** (1966, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Chantal Goya, Marlène Jobert) – Classic Movie Review 6063

The 1965 Masculin Féminin is one of the Sixties masterworks of French New Wave icon Jean-Luc Godard, who employs his once-friend François Truffaut’s star Jean-Pierre Léaud as his hero Paul. Paul is a member of […]

Oct, 08 · in Uncategorized

Happy End **** (2017, Isabelle Huppert, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Mathieu Kassovitz, Toby Jones, Fantine Harduin) – Movie Review

What’s wrong with Michael Haneke? Why is he so miserable? Or, if you’re a fan, what’s right with Michael Haneke? And, I suppose this film is both uber-miserable and just right. It may win a […]

Oct, 08

Redoutable [Le Redoutable] **** (2017, Louis Garrel, Stacy Martin, Bérénice Bejo, Micha Lescot, Grégory Gadebois, Guido Caprino) – Movie Review

Louis Garrel gives a remarkable star turn as French film director Jean-Luc Godard, taking on his look, voice and his personality. It is an impressive tour de force. He keeps his version of Godard on […]

Oct, 08

La Chinoise [The Chinese Girl] **** (1967, Anne Wiazemsky, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Juliet Berto, Francis Jeanson) – Classic Movie Review 6062

Writer/ producer/ director Jean-Luc Godard’s revolutionary-minded 1967 French film is perhaps more of a political tract on behalf of Maoism than an actual movie. Just before the real-life 1968 left-wing revolt of students, artists and […]

Oct, 08

BPM (Beats Per Minute) [120 battements par minute] ***** (2017, Nahuel Pérez Biscayart, Arnaud Valois, Adèle Haenel, Antoine Reinartz, Félix Maritaud) – Movie Review

Robin Campillo’s 2017 French activism film and AIDS drama BPM (Beats per Minute) is emotionally overwhelming, incredibly powerful, and truly inspiring. There shouldn’t be a dry eye in the house at the end – and […]

Oct, 07

Bugsy Malone **** (1976, Scott Baio, Jodie Foster, Florrie Dugger, John Cassisi, Martin Lev, Paul Murphy, Patrick Dempsey) – Classic Movie Review 6061

Writer-director Alan Parker’s entertaining 1976 British musical burlesque of the vintage American gangster movies Bugsy Malone has children taking all the roles – led by Scott Baio (aged 15) as Bugsy and Jodie Foster (aged […]

Oct, 07

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