Derek Winnert

Wild Reeds [Les Roseaux Sauvages] **** (1994, Gaël Morel, Élodie Bouchez, Stéphane Rideau, Frédéric Gorny) – Classic Movie Review 5105

Director André Techiné’s beautifully handled, poignant and delicate semi-autobiographical 1994 film tells the complex and emotionally satisfying story about teens coming of age in Sixties France at the time of the Algerian War. The film stars Frédéric Gorny, […]

Mar, 05 · in Reviews

Certain Women **** (2016, Michelle Williams, Kristen Stewart, Laura Dern, Lily Gladstone, Jared Harris, James Le Gros, Rene Auberjonois) – Movie Review

Writer-director Kelly Reichardt hauntingly brings some of Maile Meloy’s stories to the screen in three inter-connected yarns in which the lives of four women intersect in the small-town America on Montana. It stars Michelle Williams, Kristen Stewart, Laura Dern and Lily […]

Mar, 05 · in Reviews

Viceroy’s House ** (2017, Hugh Bonneville, Gillian Anderson, Michael Gambon, Manish Dayal, Huma Qureshi, Om Puri, Lily Travers, Simon Callow, Simon Williams) – Movie Review

Hugh Bonneville stars as Lord Louis Mountbatten, who is appointed final Viceroy of India, with the job of overseeing the transition of British India to independence in 1947. Director Gurinder Chadha means well but has bitten off […]

Mar, 05

The Phantom of the Opera *** (1990, Charles Dance, Burt Lancaster, Teri Polo, Ian Richardson, Andréa Ferréol) – Classic Movie Review 5104

As the Phantom of the Opera, Charles Dance is a splendidly chilling charmer, in director Tony Richardson’s rich, lavish and enjoyable 1990 film TV mini-series version of the much-filmed 1911 story by Gaston Leroux, Le […]

Mar, 05

The Phantom of the Opera ** (1989, Robert Englund, Jill Schoelen, Alex Hyde-White, Bill Nighy) – Classic Movie Review 5103

This 1989 big-screen remake of the famous Gaston Leroux novel had a convoluted production history. It was to be directed by John Hough and released by Cannon Films but Menahem Golan’s new 21st Century Film Corporation picked it up, […]

Mar, 05

The Phantom of the Opera ** (1983, Maximilian Schell, Jane Seymour, Michael York, Jeremy Kemp, Diana Quick) – Classic Movie Review 5102

Maximilian Schell makes a fair job of The Phantom in director Robert Markowitz’s sumptuous, fast moving and well-cast 1983 TV movie remake, attractively filmed in Hungary. This tolerable but not special film makes no special […]

Mar, 05

The Phantom Speaks *** (1945, Richard Arlen, Stanley Ridges, Lynne Roberts, Tom Powers, Charlotte Wynters, Jonathan Hale) – Classic Movie Review 5101

Director John English’s neat and nifty little 1945 horror thriller stars Richard Arlen, Stanley Ridges and Lynne Roberts, who make a grand job of John K Butler’s original screenplay in which the evil spirit of an executed […]

Mar, 04

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