Derek Winnert

"The Review's Better Than The Film"

Arena **½ (1953, Gig Young, Jean Hagen, Polly Bergen, Barbara Lawrence, Harry Morgan) – Classic Movie Review 9819

Director Richard Fleischer’s 1953 Arena is an interesting, well set-up, nicely cast and slightly above run-of-the-mill rodeo film drama. Filmed in Ansco Color, it is supposedly the first 3D Western feature. Gig Young stars as […]

May, 25 · in Reviews

Picking Up the Pieces ** (2000, Woody Allen, Sharon Stone, David Schwimmer, Elliott Gould, Cheech Marin) – Classic Movie Review 9818

Director Alfonso Arau’s 2000 Picking Up the Pieces stars Woody Allen as a kosher butcher called Tex, who catches his faithless wife Candy (Sharon Stone) in flagrante and kills her. After he buries her chopped-up […]

May, 25 · in Reviews

L’Argent **** (1983, Christian Patey, Sylvie Van den Elsen, Michel Briguet) – Classic Movie Review 9817

Inspired by Faux Billet by Leo Tolstoy, the 1983 crime drama L’Argent is the 13th and last film directed by French master Robert Bresson (1901–1999). Robert Bresson uses Leo Tolstoy’s story The False Note about […]

May, 25

Les anges du péché [Angels of Sin] *** (1943, Renée Faure, Jany Holt, Sylvie) – Classic Movie Review 9816

The 1943 French film Les Anges du Péché [Angels of the Street] [Angels of Sin] is a well-crafted and deeply felt, though rather obscure, esoteric and slightly melodramatic début film by French master Robert Bresson. […]

May, 24

Les Dames du Bois de Boulogne **** (1945, Paul Bernard, María Casares, Elina Labourdette) – Classic Movie Review 9815

Director Robert Bresson’s exquisitely delicate 1945 romantic drama Les Dames du Bois de Boulogne [Ladies of the Park] is a renowned vintage long-time French favourite and stars the splendid María Casares, Elina Labourdette and Paul […]

May, 24

The Daltons Ride Again ** (1945, Alan Curtis, Lon Chaney Jr, Kent Taylor, Noah Beery Jr, Martha O’Driscoll, Thomas Gomez) – Classic Movie Review 9814

Director Ray Taylor’s 1945 Universal Pictures black and white Western double feature film The Daltons Ride Again stars Alan Curtis, Kent Taylor, Lon Chaney Jr and Noah Beery Jr as the four Dalton outlaw brothers. […]

May, 24

Exposed * (1983, Nastassja Kinski, Rudolf Nureyev, Harvey Keitel, Ian McShane, Bibi Andersson) – Classic Movie Review 9813

Writer-producer-director James Toback’s 1983 film Exposed stars Nastassja Kinski as Wisconsin farm girl Elizabeth Carlson, the young woman who is exposed in TV and magazines as a top New York City fashion model, and exposed […]

May, 24

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