Derek Winnert

Hamlet Goes Business **** (1987, Pirkka-Pekka Petelius, Esko Salminen, Kati Outinen, Elina Salo) – Classic Movie Review 9600

Writer/ producer/ director Aki Kaurismäki’s 1987 Finnish black comedy film Hamlet Goes Business [Hamlet Liikemaailmassa] is an entertaining, irreverent black-and-white satirical film noir reading of the Bard. Cult director Kaurismäki’s highly personal telling of the […]

Apr, 05 · in Reviews

Valley of the Zombies ** (1946, Robert Livingston, Lorna Gray, Ian Keith, Thomas E Jackson, Charles Trowbridge) – Classic Movie Review 9599

‘BLOOD MADNESS… Out Of The Fog… Into Your Heart!’ Don’t look for a valley or zombies or thrills in director Philip Ford’s amusingly laughable 1946 Republic Pictures quickie horror chiller Valley of the Zombies about […]

Apr, 05 · in Reviews

Les Valseuses [Going Places] **** (1974, Gérard Depardieu, Miou-Miou, Patrick Dewaere, Brigitte Fossey) – Classic Movie Review 9,598

Director Bertrand Blier’s 1974 Les Valseuses [Going Places], with its tale of two young juvenile delinquents, Jean-Claude and Pierrot (Gérard Depardieu, Patrick Dewaere), who abduct hairdresser Marie-Ange (Miou-Miou) and take to the road in an […]

Apr, 05

Merci la Vie * (1991, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Anouk Grinberg, Michel Blanc, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Gérard Depardieu) – Classic Movie Review 9597

Writer-director Bernard Blier’s 1991 French film Merci la Vie stars an impressive line-up in Charlotte Gainsbourg, Anouk Grinberg, Gérard Depardieu, Michael Blanc, Annie Girardot, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Jean Carmet, Catherine Jacob and Thierry Frémont. But, despite […]

Apr, 05

Mon Père, Ce Héros [My Father, The Hero] *** (1991, Gérard Depardieu, Marie Gillain, Catherine Jacob, Patrick Mille) – Classic Movie Review 9596

Writer-director Gérard Lauzier’s 1991 Mon Père, Ce Héros [My Father, The Hero] is a rather conventional, slightly dull French romantic comedy, but it is amusing enough and is much enlivened by Gérard Depardieu’s nimble performance […]

Apr, 04

Any Number Can Win [Mélodie en sous-sol] **** (1963, Jean Gabin, Alain Delon, Claude Cerval) – Classic Movie Review 9,595

The 1963 French crime thriller Any Number Can Win [Mélodie en sous-sol] stars Jean Gabin as old career criminal Mister Charles and Alain Delon as his young former cellmate Francis Verlot, who plan to rob […]

Apr, 04

The Girl on a Motorcycle *** (1968, Marianne Faithfull, Alain Delon, Roger Mutton) – Classic Movie Review 9,594

The 1968 erotic romantic drama film The Girl on a Motorcycle is a wonderfully schlocky Swinging Sixties piece. Marianne Faithfull stars as the married English woman who roars off on her bike to visit her […]

Apr, 04

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