Derek Winnert

Choice of Arms [Le Choix des Armes] *** (1981, Yves Montand, Gérard Depardieu, Catherine Deneuve) – Classic Movie Review 10,397

Director Alain Corneau’s 1981 Choice of Arms [Le Choix des Armes] stars Yves Montand and Gérard Depardieu as the old retired robber hood Noel Durieux and the menacing young gangster Mickey, who fight it out […]

Oct, 09 · in Reviews

The Brother from Another Planet *** (1984, Joe Morton, Daryl Edwards, Rosanna Carter) – Classic Movie Review 10,396

Writer-director John Sayles’s entertaining, satirical 1984 sci-fi comedy The Brother from Another Planet is about a mute alien extra-terrestrial brother (Joe Morton) from another planet who arrives in Harlem, where he impresses the community and […]

Oct, 09 · in Opinions

Isadora **** (1966, Vivian Pickles, Peter Bowles, Alexei Jawdokimov, Murray Melvin) – Classic Movie Review 10,395

Isadora (1966) is the vivacious, deservedly much admired Ken Russell TV movie version of the life of the 1920s American dancer Isadora Duncan, with a most compelling, attractive and genial lead performance by Vivian Pickles […]

Oct, 09

Less Than Zero ** (1987, Andrew McCarthy, Jami Gertz, Robert Downey Jr, James Spader) – Classic Movie Review 10,394

Director Marek Kanievska’s 1987 Less than Zero is a very wobbly film version of the Bret Easton Ellis cult novel, which is much changed and a great deal less interesting. Andrew McCarthy stars as Princeton college […]

Oct, 08

A Lesson in Love [En Lektion i Kärlek] *** (1954, Eva Dahlbeck, Gunnar Björnstrand, Harriet Andersson, Yvonne Lombard) – Classic Movie Review 10,393

The 1954 Swedish black and white romantic comedy drama A Lesson in Love [En Lektion i Kärlek] is written and directed by Ingmar Bergman. Bergman probes marital boredom and the unsatisfactory solution of adultery in […]

Oct, 08

Let’s Get Laid * (1978, Robin Askwith, Fiona Richmond, Anthony Steel, Linda Hayden) – Classic Movie Review 10,392

The tame and tawdry 1978 British sex comedy film Let’s Get Laid stars Robin Askwith as Gordon Laid, who ‘is getting stuck in some very tight places.’ ‘Gordon Laid is getting stuck in some very […]

Oct, 08

Bartleby *** (1970, Paul Scofield, John McEnery, Thorley Walters) – Classic Movie Review 10,391

Co-writer/ director Anthony Friedman’s 1970 British drama Bartleby offers a rare opportunity to see Paul Scofield on film as The Accountant, the sympathetic boss of a young accounting clerk called Bartleby (John McEnery) who rebels against […]

Oct, 08

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