Derek Winnert

"The Review's Better Than The Film"

La Cérémonie [A Judgement in Stone] **** (1995, Isabelle Huppert, Sandrine Bonnaire, Jacqueline Bisset, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Virginie Ledoyen) – Classic Movie Review 4,192

Claude Chabrol turns Ruth Rendell’s thriller novel A Judgement in Stone into one of his best movies, the 1995 crime drama film La Cérémonie. Isabelle Huppert won the 1996 César Award for Best Actress, one […]

Aug, 17 · in Reviews

La Reine Margot [Queen Margot] ***** (1994, Isabelle Adjani, Daniel Auteuil, Jean-Hugues Anglade, Virna Lisi, Vincent Perez, Miguel Bosé) – Classic Movie Review 4191

La Reine Margot [Queen Margot] is a riveting French historical melodrama that has its centrepiece as the 24 August 1572 St Barthomew’s Day Massacre, which is chillingly and magnificently staged like the mass revenge slayings in The Godfather. […]

Aug, 17 · in Articles

Little Buddha *** (1993, Keanu Reeves, Chris Isaak, Bridget Fonda, Ruocheng Ying, Alex Wiesendanger, Raju Lal) – Classic Movie Review 4190

Director Bernardo Bertolucci’s 1993 self-styled final chapter of his ‘Oriental trilogy’ combines a historical biography of Buddha and a lesson in Buddhism with a fictional story about the arrival in Seattle of a deputation of […]

Aug, 17

Theo & Hugo [Théo et Hugo dans le même bateau] **** (2016, Geoffrey Couët, François Nambot) – Movie Review

The daring and brilliant Theo & Hugo is a lovely French boy meets boy film, very sweet, touching, funny and warm-hearted. With its mix of romance and comedy, you could just about call it an […]

Aug, 17

Looking for Richard **** (1996, Al Pacino, Alec Baldwin, Kevin Spacey) – Classic Movie Review 4189

Al Pacino’s super 1996 home movie documentary on William Shakespeare’s play Richard III and its meaning and significance is a riveting mix of documentary and drama. His cameras follow an all-star cast and crew throughout […]

Aug, 17

Loophole *** (1981, Albert Finney, Martin Sheen, Susannah York, Colin Blakely, Robert Morley, Jonathan Pryce, Christopher Guard, Alfred Lynch) – Classic Movie Review 4188

Robbing a bank by burrowing through sewers to get to its vaults adds piquancy to this tolerably exciting, old-fashioned 1981 British bank vault heist thriller, with a sturdy star turn from Albert Finney as the […]

Aug, 17

Looking for Mr Goodbar *** (1977, Diane Keaton, Tuesday Weld, William Atherton, Richard Kiley, Richard Gere, Alan Feinstein, Tom Berenger, Priscilla Pointer, LeVar Burton, Brian Dennehy) – Classic Movie Review 4187

Diane Keaton may be oddly cast but she grabs one of her best non-Woody Allen opportunities as bar-hopper Theresa Dunn, a Catholic school teacher of deaf children by day who by night takes to the singles bars […]

Aug, 17

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