Derek Winnert

"The Review's Better Than The Film"

La Strada [The Road] ***** (1954, Anthony Quinn, Giulietta Masina, Richard Basehart) – Classic Movie Review 4203

Italian maestro film-maker Federico Fellini’s movie La Strada [The Road] won the first official Best Foreign Language Film Oscar in 1957 (previous winners only got special award Oscars) for this beautiful 1954 character study of […]

Aug, 19 · in Reviews

Il Bidone [The Swindlers] **** (1955, Broderick Crawford, Richard Basehart, Franco Fabrizi, Giulietta Masina) – Classic Movie Review 4202

Broderick Crawford, Richard Basehart and Franco Fabrizi star as small-time crooks Augusto, Picasso and Roberto, who disguise themselves as priests to swindle the poor, in co-writer/ director Federico Fellini’s 1955 Italian neo-realist drama. But, when […]

Aug, 19 · in Uncategorized

Les Biches [The Does] **** (1968, Stéphane Audran, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Jacqueline Sassard) – Classic Movie Review 4201

Co-writer/ director Claude Chabrol’s chilly 1968 personal drama about two lesbians, or perhaps bisexuals, and a male architect is a graceful and deeply satisfying film. Evidently, it is as intensely felt by the actors as […]

Aug, 19

Une Femme Mariée [A Married Woman] **** (1964, Macha Méril, Bernard Noël, Philippe Leroy) – Classic Movie Review 4200

Writer-director Jean-Luc Godard amusingly explores the effects of the media on women’s lives in his involving and erotic depiction of cool married woman Charlotte (Macha Méril)’s love affair with an actor, Robert (Bernard Noël), though […]

Aug, 19

La Femme Infidèle [The Unfaithful Wife] ***** (1968, Stéphane Audran, Michel Bouquet, Maurice Ronet) – Classic Movie Review 4199

Writer-director Claude Chabrol is on peak form in the wonderful 1968 French psycho-sexual murder thriller La Femme Infidèle [The Unfaithful Wife]. And so is his then wife Stéphane Audran as Hélène Desvallées, the smart, unfaithful […]

Aug, 19

Our Mother’s House **** (1967, Dirk Bogarde, Yootha Joyce, Margaret Brooks, Mark Lester, Pamela Franklin, Yootha Joyce, Anthony Nicholls, Phoebe Nicholls) – Classic Movie Review 4198

The 1967 British thriller drama film Our Mother’s House about seven children who hide the death of their deeply religious mother by burying her body in the garden of their dilapidated suburban Victorian home is […]

Aug, 19

Bad Moms **½ (2016, Mila Kunis, Kathryn Hahn, Kristen Bell) – Movie Review

The lack of press screenings started up bad word on writer-directors Jon Lucas and Scott Moore’s raucous 2016 girls’ comedy but the good news is Bad Moms isn’t bad. The first three quarters delivers a surprisingly high score […]

Aug, 19

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