Derek Winnert

Face to Face [Ansikte mot ansikte] **** (1976, Liv Ullmann, Erland Josephson, Aino Taube, Gunnar Björnstrand) – Classic Movie Review 10,893

Writer-producer-director Ingmar Bergman deals with his own angst about failing relationships in the 1976 Swedish drama Face to Face [Ansikte mot ansikte], one of two TV movies/films he made at around this time (the other […]

Feb, 08 · in Reviews

An Italian Straw Hat [Un chapeau de paille d’Italie] **** (1928, Albert Préjean, Olga Tschechowa, Geymond Vital, Paul Ollivier, Alice Tissot, Alexej Bondireff, Marise Maia) – Classic Movie Review 10,892

Director René Clair’s delightful 1928 black and white silent movie satirical comedy An Italian Straw Hat [Un Chapeau de Paille D’Italie], attacking the pettiness of the bourgeoisie of the 1900s, revolves around an Italian straw […]

Feb, 07 · in Reviews

Starcrash *** (1978, Caroline Munro, Christopher Plummer, Marjoe Gortner, David Hasselhoff, Joe Spinell, Robert Tessier, Nadia Cassini ) – Classic Movie Review 10,891

Though filmed in Rome, and directed and co-written by Italian filmmaker Luigi Cozzi [aka Lewis Coates], the entertaining space opera film Starcrash (1978) is an American production produced independently by brothers Nat and Patrick Wachsburger. […]

Feb, 07

Company Business * (1991, Gene Hackman, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Kurtwood Smith) – Classic Movie Review 10,890

Director Nicholas Meyer’s 1991 Company Business is a disappointing, tedious espionage comedy thriller with Gene Hackman as Rogue CIA agent Sam Boyd, a former CIA Company man called back to bring jailed Soviet spy Pyiotr […]

Feb, 07

It’s That Man Again *** (1943, Tommy Handley, Greta Gynt, Jack Train) – Classic Movie Review 10,889

Director Walter Forde’s cheerful 1943 British black and white wartime comedy It’s That Man Again is the film of the anarchic radio show by Ted Kavanagh, and stars Tommy Handley, Jack Train and Greta Gynt. […]

Feb, 07

The Sting II *** (1983, Jackie Gleason, Mac Davis, Teri Garr, Karl Malden, Oliver Reed) – Classic Movie Review 10,888

Director Jeremy Paul Kagan’s 1983 The Sting II is the belated, virtually ignored sequel to the 1973 blockbuster The Sting, a whole decade after the first, with the same writer David S Ward but alas […]

Feb, 06

Still of the Night *** (1982, Roy Scheider, Meryl Streep, Jessica Tandy) – Classic Movie Review 10,887

Writer-director Robert Benton’s sophisticated but old-fashioned 1982 Still of the Night, his follow-on from his 1979 big hit Kramer vs Kramer, reunites him with Meryl Streep for a surprisingly run-of-the-mill Hitchcockian suspense thriller. But, though […]

Feb, 06

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