Derek Winnert

Badlands ***** (1973, Martin Sheen, Sissy Spacek, Warren Oates) – Classic Movie Review 2,994

Terrence Malick’s 1973 American neo-noir period crime drama film Badlands in his spectacular directorial debut. Martin Sheen and Sissy Spacek star as Fifties tearaways who go on a killing spree. Writer, producer-director Terrence Malick’s downbeat but exciting and […]

Oct, 18 · in Reviews

Bad Timing ** (1980, Art Garfunkel, Theresa Russell, Harvey Keitel ) – Classic Movie Review 2993

Bad Timing is an upsetting and depressing experience, though it is ambitious and intelligent, and has its notable good points. Director Nicolas Roeg’s 1980 British sex mystery thriller stars Theresa Russell as a neurotic young […]

Oct, 18 · in Uncategorized

The Man Who Fell to Earth **** (1976, David Bowie, Rip Torn, Candy Clark, Buck Henry, Bernie Casey) – Classic Movie Review 2992

Director Nicolas Roeg’s unique 1976 British sci-fi thriller The Man Who Fell to Earth is a challenging and mysterious fantasy. It is exasperating, mystifying, wildly self indulgent but strangely mesmerising and rather wonderful. The Man […]

Oct, 18

Walkabout ***** (1971, Jenny Agutter, David Gulpilil, Luc Roeg, John Meillon) – Classic Movie Review 2991

Director/cinematographer Nicolas Roeg’s superb, haunting 1971 film Walkabout centres on a dangerous trek across the Australian desert by an English teenager (Jenny Agutter), her young brother (Lucien John, aka Luc Roeg) and the aboriginal boy […]

Oct, 18

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

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

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

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