Derek Winnert

The Handmaid’s Tale ** (1990, Natasha Richardson, Faye Dunaway, Aidan Quinn) – Classic Movie Review 9352

Director Volker Schlöndorff’s 1990 The Handmaid’s Tale stars Natasha Richardson as Kate, who, in a decaying future America, is trained as a handmaiden to bear children for upper-class women rendered infertile by pollution. Scriptwriter Harold […]

Feb, 06 · in Uncategorized

Life Upside Down [La Vie à l’Envers] **** (1964, Charles Denner, Anna Gaylor, Guy Saint-Jean) – Classic Movie Review 9351

Writer-director Alain Jessua’s 1964 black and white drama Life Upside Down [La Vie à l’Envers] stars Charles Denner, who is surprisingly sympathetic in a difficult role as a Paris office worker, real estate agent Jacques […]

Feb, 06 · in Uncategorized

The Getting of Wisdom **** (1977, Susannah Fowle, Julia Blake, Dorothy Bradley, Kay Eklund, John Waters, Hilary Ryan, Barry Humphries) – Classic Movie Review 9350

Director Bruce Beresford’s attractive, episodic 1977 Australian coming-of-age film The Getting of Wisdom about turn-of-the-last-century girls’ school life is taken from an autobiographical novel by Henry Handel (Ethel) Richardson, with an effective screenplay by Eleanor […]

Feb, 05

Hanussen **** (1988, Klaus Maria Brandauer, Erland Josephson, Ildikó Bánsági) – Classic Movie Review 9349

Director István Szabó’s 1988 historical drama Hanussen stars Klaus Maria Brandauer, who shines again as the Austrian soldier Klaus Schneider, who gains second sight after a bullet hits his head in World War One, in […]

Feb, 05

Mephisto ***** (1981, Klaus Maria Brandauer, Krystyna Janda, Ildikó Bánsági) – Classic Movie Review 9348

Director István Szabó’s 1981 Mephisto stars Klaus Maria Brandauer, who gives a tour-de-force performance in this 1981 Best Foreign Language Film Oscar-winner about a leftist 1920s German theatre actor, Hendrik Hoefgren (famous for his playing […]

Feb, 05

For a Few Extra Dollars [Per pochi dollari ancora] *** (1966, Giuliano Gemma, Dan Vadis, José Calvo, Ángel del Pozo, Sophie Daumier, Jacques Sernas) – Classic Movie Review 9347

Giuliano Gemma (billed as Montgomery Wood) stars in director Giorgio Ferroni’s superior 1966 Italian Spaghetti Western film For a Few Extra Dollars [Per pochi dollari ancora] as former Confederate raider Gary Diamond, now a guide who […]

Feb, 04

Arizona Colt [Man from Nowhere] *** (1966, Giuliano Gemma, Fernando Sancho, Corinne Marchand) – Classic Movie Review 9346

Director Michele Lupo’s 1966 Spaghetti Western film Arizona Colt [Man from Nowhere] stars Giuliano Gemma, Fernando Sancho, and Corinne Marchand. The veteran Spanish character actor Sancho plays bandit Gordo, who frees a group of prisoners […]

Feb, 04

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