Derek Winnert

Nazarín **** (1959, Francisco Rabal, Marga López, Rita Macedo) – Classic Movie Review 11,369

Director Luis Buñuel’s powerful and darkly surreal 1959 black and white Mexican satirical drama Nazarín stars Francisco Rabal as Catholic priest Father Nazario, who is despised when he wanders among the poor in the footsteps […]

Jul, 05 · in Uncategorized

Necromancy ** (1972, Orson Welles, Pamela Franklin, Michael Ontkean, Lee Purcell, Harvey Jason) – Classic Movie Review 11,368

A biographer suggested that Orson Welles starred in Necromancy (1972) merely for the money. Do you think? Director Bert I Gordon’s 1972 horror movie Necromancy [NEC’RO•MAN’CY] stars Orson Welles in a daft, low-budget occult thriller, […]

Jul, 05 · in Uncategorized

New Jack City *** (1991, Wesley Snipes, Ice-T, Mario Van Peebles, Judd Nelson, Allen Payne, Chris Rock, Bill Cobbs) – Classic Movie Review 11,367

Director Mario Van Peebles’s 1991 American independent film New Jack City stars the young and charismatic Wesley Snipes, who gives an impressive tough guy role performance as the arrogant, smart Nino Brown, a stereotypical New […]

Jul, 04

Smoking *** (1993, Sabine Azéma, Pierre Arditi) – Classic Movie Review 11,366

Alain Resnais meets Alan Ayckbourn for the 1993 French comedy film Smoking. For the 1993 French comedy film Smoking / No Smoking, director Alain Resnais adapts Alan Ayckbourn’s play Intimate Exchanges (a series of eight […]

Jul, 04

No Smoking *** (1993, Sabine Azéma, Pierre Arditi) – Classic Movie Review 11,365

The 1993 French comedy film No Smoking is part two of Alain Resnais’s monumental adaptation of Alan Ayckbourn’s play cycle Intimate Exchanges (after Smoking). There are three stories but it focuses mainly on the relationship […]

Jul, 04

The Bitch ** (1979, Joan Collins, Kenneth Haigh, Michael Coby, Ian Hendry, Carolyn Seymour, Sue Lloyd, Mark Burns) – Classic Movie Review 11,364

Joan Collins’s performance as the insatiable ‘rich bitch’ Fontaine Khaled helped to revive her career and led her to play Alexis Carrington. Writer/ director Gerry O’Hara’s 1979 film The Bitch stars the sexy 46-year-old Joan […]

Jul, 03

The Story of Mankind * (1957, Vincent Price, Ronald Colman, Cedric Hardwicke, Harpo Marx, Chico Marx, Groucho Marx, Hedy Lamarr, Peter Lorre) – Classic Movie Review 11,363

Irwin Allen’s 1957 The Story of Mankind is a bizarre débâcle that has earned a place in the 1978 book The Fifty Worst Films of All Time. Director/ co–producer Irwin Allen’s 1957 American Technicolor fantasy […]

Jul, 03

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