Derek Winnert

Van Gogh *** (1991, Jacques Dutronc, Alexandra London, Gérard Séty, Bernard Le Coq, Corinne Bourdon, Elsa Zylberstein) – Classic Movie Review 6054

A complex, deeply humane portrayal by Alexandra Dutronc brings the troubled painter Vincent Van Gogh to life in writer-director Maurice Pialat’s meticulous and supremely detailed 1992 French historical biopic that places the end of the […]

Oct, 03 · in Uncategorized

Filmworker *** (2017, Leon Vitali, Ryan O’Neal, Danny Lloyd, Matthew Modine, R Lee Ermey) – Movie Review

Director Tony Zierra’s documentary on Leon Vitali, who gave up a promising acting career to serve for three decades as Stanley Kubrick’s right-hand man, is fascinating, a remarkable footnote to Kubrick’s story. Vitali describes himself and on his passport […]

Oct, 02 · in Uncategorized

9 Fingers [9 doigts] * (2017, Damien Bonnard, Diogo Dória, Elvire, Damien Bonnard, Gaspard Ulliel) – Movie Review

Paul Hamy stars in writer-director F J  Ossang’s pretentious, alienating art movie as a man called Magloire who is on the run with no luggage or purpose till he meets a dying man who gives him a […]

Oct, 02

The Glass Castle ** (2017, Brie Larson, Woody Harrelson, Naomi Watts) – Movie Review

Co-writer/ director Destin Daniel Cretton’s serious-minded 2017 film is an interesting and conscientious but unconvincingly staged coming-of-age true-life memoir, with neither Brie Larson nor Naomi Watts seen at their best. Woody Harrelson (wearing a dodgy-looking wig) […]

Oct, 02

Loving Vincent **** (2017, voice of Douglas Booth, Chris O’Dowd, Helen McCrory, Saoirse Ronan, John Sessions) – Movie Review

‘I should one day like to show by my work what such an eccentric, such a nobody, has in his heart.’ – Vincent van Gogh. Writer-director Dorota Kobiela and Hugh Welchman’s superlative Oscar nominated animated feature film about […]

Oct, 02

Perfect Blue [Pâfekuto burû] **** (1997) – Classic Movie Review 6053

Japanese pop singer Mima (voice of Mima Kirigoe) quits the hit pop idol group CHAM to pursue her dreams as an actress. She performs as rape victims and poses nude for magazines, and is haunted […]

Oct, 01

Daphne **** (2017, Emily Beecham, Geraldine James, Tom Vaughan-Lawlor) – Movie Review 

There are laughs, there is drama, there is romance and there is sex, but Daphne is a bit of a tough, gruelling movie. They have certainly taken the fun out of it. However, Emily Beecham is […]

Oct, 01

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