Derek Winnert

"The Review's Better Than The Film"

Ma Saison Préférée [My Favorite Season] *** (1993, Catherine Deneuve, Daniel Auteuil, Marthe Villalonga) – Classic Movie Review 9967

Director André Techiné’s 1993 Ma Saison Préférée [My Favorite Season] is an intriguing and engrossing, if difficult and elusive study of two siblings, written by Pascal Bonitzer and André Téchiné. Catherine Deneuve and Daniel Auteuil […]

Jun, 27 · in Reviews

Coroner Creek *** (1948, Randolph Scott, Marguerite Chapman, George Macready, Sally Eilers, Edgar Buchanan, Wallace Ford) – Classic Movie Review 9966

Director Ray Enright’s 1948 Cinecolor Western film Coroner Creek is a useful vehicle for Randolph Scott as gunslinger Chris Danning on the trail of the bad guy Younger Miles George Macready) who got the Native […]

Jun, 27 · in Reviews

Corruption (1968, Peter Cushing, Sue Lloyd, Noel Trevarthen) – Classic Movie Review 9965

‘Corruption Is Not A Woman’s Picture! Therefore: No Woman Will Be Admitted Alone To See This Super-Shock Film!’ You probably couldn’t get away with that now. You also probably couldn’t get away with Corruption (1968). […]

Jun, 27

Her Cardboard Lover ** (1942, Norma Shearer, Robert Taylor, George Sanders) – Classic Movie Review 9964

Director George Cukor’s 1942 MGM black and white romantic comedy Her Cardboard Lover stars Norma Shearer, Robert Taylor and George Sanders. It proved the final film of Norma Shearer, one-time ‘The First Lady of MGM’ or […]

Jun, 26

Only the Animals [Seules les bêtes] ***½ (2019, Denis Ménochet, Laure Calamy, Damien Bonnard)

Tragedy stalks the French countryside in director Dominik Moll’s 2019 thriller Only the Animals [Seules les bêtes], as Agatha Christie meets Claude Chabrol in an ingenious and engrossing, if highly unlikely yarn. The Christie bit […]

Jun, 26

We Were One Man [Nous Etions Un Seule Homme] **** (1979, Serge Avedikian, Piotr Stanislas, Catherine Albin, Lucien Guérin) – Classic Movie Review 9963

Director Philippe Vallois’s splendid, heart-rending 1979 French gay movie We Were One Man [Nous Etions Un Seule Homme] is really subtle and special. In the autumn of 1943, in World War Two, Guy Rouveron (Serge […]

Jun, 26

We Were Dancing ** (1942, Norma Shearer, Melvyn Douglas, Gail Patrick) – Classic Movie Review 9962

Norma Shearer rejected starring in Mrs Miniver while making director Robert Z Leonard’s 1942 featherweight black and white drawing room comedy We Were Dancing, loosely based on one of Noël Coward’s Tonight at 8.30 short […]

Jun, 26

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