Derek Winnert

La Dentellière [The Lacemaker] **** (1977, Isabelle Huppert, Yves Beneyton, Florence Giorgetti) – Classic Movie Review 5118

Co-writer/ director Claude Goretta’s penetrating 1977 film character study stars Isabelle Huppert as a reserved apprentice teenage Paris hairdresser called Pomme who goes with her friend Marylène (Florence Giorgetti) to Cabourg in Normandy for a […]

Mar, 08 · in Reviews

Kong: Skull Island *** (2017, Tom Hiddleston, Samuel L Jackson, Brie Larson, John Goodman, John C Reilly) – Movie Review

It is 1971, and America is afflicted by the twin monsters of the Vietnam War and Nixon, and a team of explorers and soldiers want to get away from it all – and travel to […]

Mar, 08 · in Reviews

The Roman Spring of Mrs Stone **** (1961, Vivien Leigh, Warren Beatty, Lotte Lenya, Jeremy Spenser, Coral Browne, Ernest Thesiger, Cleo Laine, Jill St John) – Classic Movie Review 5117

Director Jose Quintero’s 1961 romantic drama is a highly intriguing film version of Tennessee Williams’s only novel, with Vivien Leigh enjoying herself as Mrs Stone, an ageing American actress staying in a magnificent apartment in Rome, […]

Mar, 07

Mr North *** (1988, Anthony Edwards, Anjelica Huston, Robert Mitchum, Lauren Bacall, Harry Dean Stanton) – Classic Movie Review 5116

Miracles, magic and mayhem are on the menu for Danny Huston’s 1988 film version of Thornton Wilder’s novel Theophilus North, which he crafts into a charming, amiable and likeable entertainment. Anthony Edwards stars as Mr […]

Mar, 07

The Paleface **** (1922, Buster Keaton, Virginia Fox, Joe Roberts) – Classic Movie Review 5115

This blissful classic 1922 twenty minutes of comedy is a highly amusing, fast-moving, inventive silent short from writer/ co-producer/ co-director/ star Buster Keaton. It is one of his best – in which he plays a […]

Mar, 06

Bats * (1999, Lou Diamond Phillips, Dina Meyer, Bob Gunton) – Classic Movie Review 5114

Dina Meyer stars as zoologist Dr Sheila Casper, who is summoned to the Texas town of Gallup, where she teams up with the surprisingly kindly sheriff Emmett Kinsey (Lou Diamond Phillips) after a plague of […]

Mar, 06

A Damsel in Distress ***½ (1937, Fred Astaire, Joan Fontaine, George Burns, Gracie Allen) – Classic Movie Review 5113

After so many films together, Ginger Rogers wanted a rest from acting, singing and dancing with Fred Astaire, so the RKO studio matched him together with a decorative and appealing Joan Fontaine. Alas that turns […]

Mar, 06

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