Derek Winnert

Performance ***** (1970, James Fox, Mick Jagger, Anita Pallenberg, Michèle Breton) – Classic Movie Review 2,990

Nicolas Roeg and Donald Cammell’s clever 1970 gender-bender teaser film Performance is a stunning eye-opener and turned out to be a milestone of British cinema with its provocative mix of perverted sex and violence. James […]

Oct, 18 · in Uncategorized

The 1,000 Eyes of Dr Mabuse [Die 1000 Augen des Dr Mabuse] **** (1960, Dawn Addams, Peter van Eyck, Gert Fröbe, Wolfgang Preiss) – Classic Movie Review 2989

Director Fritz Lang’s final film from 1960 is a spirited revisit to his Dr Mabuse stories of the 1922 and 1933 pre-Hitler era. Gert Fröbe (Goldfinger) is on fine form as Commissioner Kras, the cop […]

Oct, 17 · in Uncategorized

Dr Mabuse, The Gambler [Dr Mabuse, Der Spieler] ***** (1922, Rudolf Klein-Rogge, Bernhard Goetzke, Aud Egede-Nissen, Gertrude Welcker) – Classic Movie Review 2988

Co-writer/director Fritz Lang’s 1922 German movie is a highly acclaimed and much admired classic of silent cinema. It stars Rudolf Klein-Rogge as the mad master arch-criminal Dr Mabuse, who plans to run Berlin and then rule […]

Oct, 17

The Testament of Dr Mabuse [Das Testament des Dr Mabuse] **** (1933, Rudolf Klein-Rogge, Otto Wernicke, Gustav Diessl) – Classic Movie Review 2987

In 1933 German meister director Fritz Lang brings back his evil crime baron Dr Mabuse (Rudolf Klein-Rogge) from his 1922 silent classic Doctor Mabuse the Gambler [Dr Mabuse, King of Crime] and creates a meisterwerk. It […]

Oct, 17

Le sang d’un poète [The Blood of a Poet] ***** (1932, Enrique Rivero, Lee Miller, Pauline Carton, Jean Desbordes) – Classic Movie Review 2986

Poet-film director Jean Cocteau’s standard-setting first film from 1932 is a dazzling series of enigmatic surrealist images conjured up as much to delight as to bewilder. As statues come alive and an executed revolutionary revives, […]

Oct, 17

Le Testament d’Orphée [Testament of Orpheus] **** (1959, Jean Cocteau, Edouard Dermithe, Maria Casarès, François Périer, Henri Crémieux, Yul Brynner, Jean Marais, Claudine Auger) – Classic Movie Review 2985

Writer-director Jean Cocteau’s 1959 last film and movie final testament takes up where his first film Le Sang d’un Poète [Blood of a Poet] (1931) and arguably his most famous film Orphée (1950) left off. […]

Oct, 17

Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life **** (1983, Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Eric Idle, Michael Palin, Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones) – Classic Movie Review 2984

Terry Jones again directs and stars in the slightly less brilliant fourth Monty Python movie Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life in 1983. And, rather than something completely different, it is of course again written […]

Oct, 16

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