Derek Winnert

Mouchette ***** (1967, Nadine Nortier, Jean-Claude Guilbert, Marie Cardinal, Paul Hébert, Jean Vimenet, Marie Susini) – Classic Movie Review 4373

Writer-director Robert Bresson’s touching and personal 1967 film is the companion piece to his 1966 film Au Hasard Balthazar. Nadine Nortier stars as the alienated French rural teenager Mouchette, who meets poacher Arsène (Jean-Claude Guilbert), […]

Sep, 17 · in Uncategorized

Au Hasard Balthazar [Balthazar] ***** (1966, Anne Wiazemsky, François Lafarge, Walter Green, Philippe Asselin, Nathalie Joyaut) – Classic Movie Review 4372

Writer-director Robert Bresson’s incredibly touching, highly personal 1966 film tells the biblical-style metaphorical tale of a mistreated donkey called Balthazar. Though austere, the film is completely approachable. While the donkey endures a life of misery […]

Sep, 17 · in Uncategorized

The Ballad of the Sad Café ***½ (1991, Vanessa Redgrave, Keith Carradine, Rod Steiger, Austin Pendleton, Cork Hubbert, Beth Dixon) – Classic Movie Review 4371

Director Simon Callow’s 1991 British film version of Edward Albee’s stage play adaptation of Carson McCullers’s intensely moving novella is engrossing, intelligent, atmospheric and extremely well acted. A battle of the sexes in the American […]

Sep, 17

A Man for All Seasons **** (1966, Paul Scofield, Robert Shaw, Vanessa Redgrave, Wendy Hiller, Susannah York, Orson Welles, Leo McKern, Nigel Davenport, John Hurt, Corin Redgrave, Colin Blakely) – Classic Movie Review 4370

Director Fred Zinnemann’s 1966 film of the play by Robert Bolt showcases Paul Scofield’s sterling and definitive performance as the principled and courageous Sir Thomas More, Catholic Chancellor of England in 1528, who does battle with […]

Sep, 17

Blair Witch **½ (2016, James Allen McCune, Callie Hernandez, Corbin Reid, Brandon Scott, Wes Robinson, Valorie Curry) – Movie Review

James Allen McCune stars as James, who discovers a video supposedly showing a witch during his sister Heather’s demonic experiences in the Blair Witch woods. Naturally, that compels him to endanger everybody’s lives by heading off there with […]

Sep, 16

The Beatles: Eight Days a Week – The Touring Years **** (2016) – Movie Review

Director Ron Howard’s delicious documentary compilation of footage featuring music, interviews, and stories of The Beatles’ 250 concerts from 1963 to 1966 is fab – obviously. A labour of love, it features no personal lowdown stuff or […]

Sep, 16

Baden Baden **** (2016, Salomé Richard, Claude Gensac, Swann Arlaud, Zabou Breitman, Lazare Gousseau, Olivier Chantreau) – Movie Review

Salomé Richard is adorable as the dazed and confused 26 year-old Ana, who returns back home to Strasbourg and tries to get her life together over the following summer. Ana wants to turn to somebody, and there’s no shortage […]

Sep, 16

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