Derek Winnert

Zazie dans le Métro ***** (1960, Catherine Demongeot, Philippe Noiret, Hubert Deschamps) – Classic Movie Review 5008

Louis Malle relishes directing one of the key films of the French New Wave about the precocious 11-year-old sophisticated girl Zazie (Catherine Demongeot) who spends a day or so in Paris, travelling the Métro with her […]

Feb, 05 · in Uncategorized

Touchez Pas au Grisbi ***** (1954, Jean Gabin, Jeanne Moreau, Lino Ventura, Gaby Basset, Daniel Cauchy, René Dary, Dora Doll, Paul Frankeur) – Classic Movie Review 5007

A sad and smokey bitter-sweet Gallic atmosphere of tired desperation pervades co-writer/ director Jacques Becker’s 1954 wry classic French noir gangster crime thriller. A movie based on Albert Simonin’s novel was always going to be good, […]

Feb, 04 · in Uncategorized

The Indian Runner **** (1991, David Morse, Viggo Mortensen, Valeria Golino, Patricia Arquette, Charles Bronson, Sandy Dennis, Dennis Hopper) – Classic Movie Review 5006

The actor Sean Penn writes and directs this powerful 1991 film that tells the Seventies-set tale of two brothers, one the surprisingly nice, ordinary, well-adjusted highway patrolman Joe Roberts (David Morse), the other the handsome […]

Feb, 04

A Touch of Love **** (1969, Sandy Dennis, Ian McKellen, Eleanor Bron) – Classic Movie Review 5004

Director Waris Hussein’s very special 1969 drama is adapted by Margaret Drabble from her once famous 1960s feminist novel The Millstone. Sandy Dennis plays Rosamund Stacey, a bookish young London PhD student, studying for her […]

Feb, 04

Rudy **** (1993, Sean Astin, Jon Favreau, Ned Beatty) – Classic Movie Review 5005

Director David Anspaugh’s 1993 biographical American sports drama / football movie tells the early 60s Illinois story of Rudy Ruettiger. He dreams of playing American football for top university team Notre Dame, but is held […]

Feb, 04

Bunny Lake Is Missing **** (1965, Laurence Olivier, Carol Lynley, Keir Dullea, Noël Coward, Martita Hunt, Finlay Currie, Clive Revill, Anna Massey) – Classic Movie Review 5001

You don’t get many films billed as ‘ A conspiracy of madness’ but here it is. Producer-director Otto Preminger’s 1965 crafty and engrossing mystery crime thriller Bunny Lake Is Missing comes from the pens of […]

Feb, 04

Something To Talk About *** (1995, Robert Duvall, Gena Rowlands, Julia Roberts, Dennis Quaid, Kyra Sedgwick) – Classic Movie Review 4986

Director Lasse Hallstrom’s exceptional, appealing 1995 domestic comedy drama about the affairs of a rich family in the American South really is something to talk about tomorrow with your friends or in the workplace. Robert Duvall […]

Feb, 03

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