Derek Winnert

The Passenger [Professione: Reporter] **** (1975, Jack Nicholson, Maria Schneider, Jenny Runacre, Ian Hendry, Steven Berkoff) – Classic Movie Review 2841

‘I used to be somebody else… but I traded myself in.’ – David Locke. Co-writer/director Michelangelo Antonioni decorates – or rather obscures – Mark Peploe’s intriguing 1975 thriller plot with a great deal of fine […]

Aug, 23 · in Reviews

Zabriskie Point **** (1970, Mark Frechette, Daria Halprin, Rod Taylor, Paul Fix) – Classic Movie Review 2840

Co-writer/director Michelangelo Antonioni’s fascinating if somewhat misguided 1970 American odyssey film Zabriskie Point follows the misadventures of student radical dropout Mark (Mark Frechette). He is accused of a cop’s murder during a student riot, pilots […]

Aug, 22 · in Reviews

L’Avventura ***** (1960, Monica Vitti, Gabriele Ferzetti, Lea Massari) – Classic Movie Review 2,839

Enigmatic beauty Monica Vitti stars gracefully in one of Italian director Michelangelo Antonioni’s most famous films, L’Avventura (1960). Lea Massari plays the young woman who disappears during a boating trip in the Mediterranean. Enigmatic beauty Monica […]

Aug, 22

La Notte [The Night] ***** (1961, Jeanne Moreau, Marcello Mastroianni, Monica Vitti, Bernhard Wicki, Giorgio Negro, Vincenzo Corbella) – Classic Movie Review 2838

Antonioni entrances us with iconic Sixties actors and scenes from a dying marriage. This much-admired and long-recognised 1961 world cinema classic is one of co-writer/ director Michelangelo Antonioni’s acclaimed and brilliantly stylish Sixties studies in alienation. […]

Aug, 22

Cry of the Banshee *** (1970, Vincent Price, Elisabeth Bergner, Hilary Dwyer, Hugh Griffith, Patrick Mower) – Classic Movie Review 2835

Vincent Price is back in Witchfinder General mode in 1970’s Cry of the Banshee, as a wicked magistrate hunting out witches. Vincent Price is back in the Witchfinder General-mode horror business in 1970’s Cry of […]

Aug, 22

House of the Long Shadows *** (1983, Vincent Price, Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, John Carradine, Desi Arnaz Jr, Richard Todd, Sheila Keith) – Classic Movie Review 2837

Four film ghouls gather in House of the Long Shadows. Four iconic horror film stars Vincent Price, Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing and John Carradine star together in director Pete Walker’s horror parody. It gets an extra star […]

Aug, 22

Blowup [Blow-Up] ***** (1966, David Hemmings, Vanessa Redgrave, Sarah Miles, Jane Birkin, Gillian Hills, Verushka, Peter Bowles, John Castle) – Classic Movie Review 2,836

Michelangelo Antonioni came to London in 1966 to make his multi-layered puzzle thriller film Blowup. David Hemmings plays a modish fashion photographer who pictures blonde Jane Birkin romping around with brunette Gillian Hills. Esteemed Italian […]

Aug, 21

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