Derek Winnert

Body Parts * (1991, Jeff Fahey, Lindsay Duncan, Kim Delaney, Brad Dourif, Zakes Mokae) – Classic Movie Review 9413

Director Eric Red’s 1991 Body Parts is a lolloping horror-movie mongrel, stitching a timeworn chiller premise into a slick MTV-style package that immerses itself in the horrors of modern technology after micro-surgeon Dr Agatha Webb […]

Feb, 22 · in Uncategorized

Chronicle of a Death Foretold [Cronaca di una morte annunciata] * (1987) – Classic Movie Review 9412

Director Francesco Rosi’s 1987 Italy / France / Colombia drama Chronicle of a Death Foretold [Cronaca di una morte annunciata] is a major miscalculation, with some embarrassing work from some big names of cinema. It […]

Feb, 22 · in Uncategorized

Body of Evidence * (1992, Madonna, Willem Dafoe, Joe Mantegna, Anne Archer, Julianne Moore) – Classic Movie Review 9411

The body in question is Madonna’s and we get to see an awful lot of it in director Uli Edel’s disastrous 1992 erotic courtroom thriller Body of Evidence. Madonna won the 1994 Razzie Award for […]

Feb, 22

Christiane F [Christiane F – Wir Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo] **** (1981, Natja Brunckhorst, Thomas Haustein, Eberhard Auriga, Peggy Bussieck) – Classic Movie Review 9410

Director Uli [Ulrich] Edel’s 1981 German drama Christiane F [Christiane F – Wir Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo] is based on Christiane’s bestselling story as told to reporters at the Hamburg-based Stern weekly news magazine, and […]

Feb, 22

Last Exit to Brooklyn **** (1989, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Stephen Lang, Burt Young) – Classic Movie Review 9409

It has been left to the Germans to make a film version of Hubert Selby Jr’s harrowing, controversial novel Last Exit to Brooklyn, banned following a private prosecution in July 1966, after its publication in […]

Feb, 22

Fear X *** (2003, John Turturro, Deborah Kara Unger, James Remar, Stephen Eric McIntyre) – Classic Movie Review 9408

Director Nicolas Winding Refn’s 2003 surreal neo noir thriller Fear X stars John Turturro, Deborah Kara Unger and James Remar. Refn co-writes the screenplay with Hubert Selby Jr, who wrote the books of Last Exit […]

Feb, 22

Nenette and Boni [Nénette et Boni] ** (1996, Grégoire Colin, Alice Houri, Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Vincent Gallo, Jacques Nolot) – Classic Movie Review 9407

Co-writer/ director Claire Denis’s 1996 Nenette and Boni [Nénette et Boni] is a difficult, edgy, sometimes un-realised picture, with some good scenes and dialogue as well as a couple of persuasive, even attractive, star performances […]

Feb, 21

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