Derek Winnert

Sullivan’s Travels ***** (1941, Joel McCrea, Veronica Lake, Robert Warwick, William Demarest, Franklin Pangborn, Porter Hall, Eric Blore) – Classic Movie Review 2593

As World War Two rages, writer-director Preston Sturges calls Hollywood to task for its frivolity in his brilliant 1941 serio-comic road movie. Sturges’s movie is a classic satire, still funny, relevant and worthwhile. Joel McCrea […]

Jun, 13 · in Reviews

Last Holiday **** (1950, Alec Guinness, Beatrice Campbell, Kay Walsh) – Classic Movie Review 2,592

The neat and nimble 1950 black comedy film Last Holiday stars the expert and excellent Alec Guinness, as a man told he has only a short time to live, in a subtly sentimental original story […]

Jun, 13 · in Reviews

I Hired a Contract Killer **** (1990, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Margi Clarke, Kenneth Colley) – Classic Movie Review 2591

Writer/director Aki Kaurismåki’s offbeat 1990 black-comedy thriller stars Jean-Pierre Léaud as Henri Boulanger, a terminally depressed Frenchman in London. It is a splendidly quirky and truly funny movie, a little gem. Henri is so depressed after being […]

Jun, 13

Love on the Run [L’Amour en Fuite] ***½ (1979, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Claude Jade, Marie-France Pisier, Dani, Dorothée) – Classic Movie Review 2590

Co-writer/director François Truffaut puts his alter ego film-self Antoine Doinel in the spotlight again in 1979 for the fifth and final time, as Jean-Pierre Léaud re-creates his most famous role in this amiable sequel movie. […]

Jun, 13

Bed & Board [Domicile Conjugale] **** (1970, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Claude Jade, Hiroko Berghauer) – Classic Movie Review 2589

Bed and Board [Domicile Conjugale] is often highly amusing, perceptive and very touching, though overall perhaps slightly less so than its 1968 predecessor Stolen Kisses (Baisers Volés). Jean-Pierre Léaud again stars as the twentysomething French hero, […]

Jun, 12

The Bride Wore Black [La mariée était en noir] **** (1967, Jeanne Moreau, Jean-Claude Brialy, Michel Bouquet, Charles Denner, Claude Rich, Michel Lonsdale, Daniel Boulanger) – Classic Movie Review 2,588

François Truffaut’s 1968 salute to Alfred Hitchcock, the French thriller film The Bride Wore Black, is a richly enjoyable, quirky entertainment. Jeanne Moreau is on great form as a widow who sets out to kill […]

Jun, 12

Stolen Kisses [Baisers Volés] **** (1968, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Claude Jade, Delphine Seyrig, Michel Lonsdale) – Classic Movie Review 2587

Co-writer/director François Truffaut’s 1968 Baisers Volés (Stolen Kisses) is the very welcome third episode in Truffaut’s Antoine Doinel series. The 25-year-old Jean-Pierre Léaud back again as Truffaut’s alter ego in the further adventures of the […]

Jun, 12

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