Derek Winnert

Knife in the Water [Nóz w wodzie] **** (1962, Leon Niemczyk, Jolanta Umecka, Zygmunt Malanowicz) – Classic Movie Review 3946

Co-writer/director Roman Polanski’s 1962 Polish first feature film tells of a bored, aging husband and wife couple, Andrjez and Krystyna (Leon Niemczyk, Jolanta Umecka) whose bourgeois conformism is shaken up by a hitch-hiking beatnik young man (Zygmunt […]

Jun, 29 · in Uncategorized

The Silence [Tystnaden] ***** (1963, Ingrid Thulin, Gunnel Lindblom, Jörgen Lindström, Birger Malmsten) – Classic Movie Review 3932

Writer-director Ingmar Bergman’s provocative 1963 Swedish classic challenged the censor at the time for being sexually explicit. In the UK, the chief censor was in holiday when the film was approved. The controversy over the film resulted […]

Jun, 29 · in Uncategorized

Persona ***** (1966, Bibi Andersson, Liv Ullmann, Margaretha Krook) – Classic Movie Review 3945

Writer-director Ingmar Bergman’s incredibly intense 1966 psychological drama is set in an isolated beach-house where a beautiful, famous actress Elisabeth Vogler (Liv Ullmann) and her tormented nurse Alma (Bibi Andersson) struggle to come to terms […]

Jun, 28

The Cheyenne Social Club *** (1970, James Stewart, Henry Fonda, Shirley Jones, Sue Anne Langdon) – Classic Movie Review 3944

James Stewart and Henry Fonda star as ageing wandering cowboys who inherit a whorehouse – the Cheyenne Social Club of the title – run by its feisty madame, Jenny (Shirley Jones). Prim and proper John […]

Jun, 28

Fanny by Gaslight [Man of Evil ] *** (1944, Phyllis Calvert, James Mason, Wilfrid Lawson, Stewart Granger, Jean Kent, John Laurie) – Classic Movie Review 3943

James Mason is back in 1944 as the hissable villain that the British public of the day so much enjoyed, relishing being beastly again to Phyllis Calvert – just as he was in The Man […]

Jun, 28

Cheyenne Autumn *** (1964, Richard Widmark, Carroll Baker, Karl Malden, Dolores Del Rio, Sal Mineo, Edward G Robinson, James Stewart) – Classic Movie Review 3,928

Producer-director John Ford is coming towards the end of the trail in his majestic 1964 final Western film Cheyenne Autumn, which gives a sympathetic fictionalized account of the true story of a tribe of Cheyenne […]

Jun, 28

The Chase ***½ (1966, Marlon Brando, Jane Fonda, Robert Redford, E G Marshall, James Fox, Angie Dickinson, Janice Rule, Robert Duvall, Miriam Hopkins) – Classic Movie Review 3,929

Marlon Brando, Jane Fonda and Robert Redford star in the sultry and steamy 1966 Texas small-town melodrama film The Chase. Director Arthur Penn’s sultry and steamy 1966 Texas small-town melodrama The Chase finds both the […]

Jun, 28

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