Derek Winnert

The Great Dictator ***** (1940, Charles Chaplin, Paulette Goddard, Jack Oakie) – Classic Movie Review 1044

Producer-writer-director Charles Chaplin’s 1940 brave, risky and pioneering satirical comedy classic focuses on a timid Jewish barber who is mistaken for the dictator of Tomania (‘our Fooey’) and then takes over from him. A stirring, controversial condemnation of […]

Apr, 03 · in Reviews

City Lights ***** (1931, Charles Chaplin, Virginia Cherrill, Florence Lee, Harry Myers, Hank Mann, Allan Garcia) – Classic Movie Review 1043

Writer-director Charles Chaplin’s still-renowned, often brilliant 1931 comedy classic is a silent movie, even though he made it three years after the talkies had come in. It is over-burdened with sentimentality from another age but […]

Apr, 02 · in Reviews

East Is East **** (1999, Om Puri, Linda Bassett, Jimi Mistry) – Classic Movie Review 1042

Director Damien O’Donnell’s 1999 Film Four movie proved a very big popular hit in the UK. Om Puri brings a tragic dimension to what is basically a sitcom about a traditional Seventies Pakistani father who […]

Apr, 02

Nowhere **** (1997, James Duval, Rachel True, Nathan Bexton, Christina Applegate, Debi Mazar) – Classic Movie Review 1,041

Gregg Araki’s ambitious and successful 1997 movie Nowhere is zany alternative entertainment for cool entertainment folk. James Duval makes an engaging, lost hero as Dark Smith. Writer-director Gregg Araki’s ambitious and successful 1997 movie Nowhere […]

Apr, 02

The Doom Generation ***½ (1995, James Duval, Rose McGowan, Johnathon Schaech) – Classic Movie Review 1,040

Gay Asian American cult director Gregg Araki’s 1995 black comedy road movie The Doom Generation is gleefully gross, violent and ultra-provocative. Gay Asian American cult director Gregg Araki’s 1995 black comedy road movie The Doom […]

Apr, 02

Totally F***ed Up **** (1993, James Duval) – Classic Movie Review 1039

Gregg Araki’s 1993 movie Totally F***ed Up focuses on a gang of half a dozen gay and lesbian teenagers living in Los Angeles who are totally fed up and f***ed up outcasts. Writer-cinematographer-editor-producer-director Gregg Araki’s […]

Apr, 02

Total Eclipse ** (1995, Leonardo DiCaprio, David Thewlis, Romane Bohringer) – Classic Movie Review 1038

Director Agnieszka Holland’s 1995 adaptation of Christopher Hampton’s play (with a screenplay by the playwright himself) about the destructive mutual passion of the 19th-century French poets Arthur Rambeau and Paul Verlaine is a depressing fiasco […]

Apr, 02

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