Derek Winnert

The Day the Earth Caught Fire **** (1961, Edward Judd, Janet Munro, Leo McKern) – Classic Movie Review 3642

‘THE PICTURE THAT GIVES YOU A FRONT SEAT TO THE MOST JOLTING EVENTS OF TOMORROW…TODAY! ‘ Co-writer/director Val Guest’s ambitious 1961 apocalyptic British science fiction disaster drama is commendably exciting and briskly paced as well […]

May, 01 · in Reviews

Dementia 13 *** (1963, William Campbell, Luana Anders, Bart Patton) – Classic Movie Review 3641

Producer Roger Corman gives writer-director Francis Ford Coppola his chance in 1963 to make his first mainstream legitimate directorial feature film. After graduate work at UCLA in film-making, Coppola trained as assistant to Corman, working as sound-man, dialogue director, […]

May, 01 · in Uncategorized

Panic in Year Zero! [Panic in the Year Zero] ***½ (1962, Ray Milland, Jean Hagen, Frankie Avalon) – Classic Movie Review 3640

‘An orgy of looting and lust. The day when civilisation came to an end!’ The 1962 Panic in Year Zero! [Panic in the Year Zero] is the best of actor Ray Milland’s directing efforts, following A […]

May, 01

X – The Man with the X-Ray Eyes *** (1963, Ray Milland, Diana Van der Vlis, Harold J Stone, Don Rickles, John Hoyt, John Dierkes) – Classic Movie Review 3639

Director Roger Corman’s 1963 heated hybrid of horror and sci-fi stars Ray Milland as a world-renowned scientist, who tries out his all-seeing serum to improve the capacity of the human eye and uses his special […]

May, 01

Bande à Part [Band of Outsiders] *** (1964, Anna Karina, Claude Brasseur, Sami Frey, Danièle Girard) – Classic Movie Review 3638

Writer-director Jean-Luc Godard’s relatively low-scoring 1964 French New Wave thriller has cult chic status and lively stars in Anna Karina, Claude Brasseur and Sami Frey as petty crooks living out their fantasies of planning a […]

May, 01

The Band Wagon ***** (1953, Fred Astaire, Jack Buchanan, Oscar Levant, Cyd Charisse, Nanette Fabray) – Classic Movie Review 3637

Fred Astaire, Jack Buchanan, Oscar Levant, Cyd Charisse and Nanette Fabray kick up a sensational storm in writers Betty Comden, Adolph Green and Alan Jay Lerner’s superlative MGM Technicolor backstage musical, directed in 1953 by […]

May, 01

Loin de Manhattan *** (1982, Jean-Christophe Bouvet, Sonia Saviange, Howard Vernon, Laura Betti) – Classic Movie Review 3636

Writer-director Jean-Claude Biette’s 1982 French comedy drama Loin de Manhattan is intriguing and densely scripted, with playful performances and teasing results. It stars Jean-Christophe Bouvet, Sonia Saviange, Howard Vernon, and Laura Betti. In Biette’s complex screenplay, […]

May, 01

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