Derek Winnert

All Neat in Black Stockings * (1969, Victor Henry, Susan George, Jack Shepherd) – Classic Movie Review 9,310

Victor Henry and Susan George star in the 1969 British film All Neat in Black Stockings, a low sex comedy drama romp with serious undertones about the confessions of a randy window cleaner called Ginger. […]

Jan, 28 · in Reviews

Diamonds for Breakfast * (1968, Marcello Mastroianni, Rita Tushingham, Elaine Taylor) – Classic Movie Review 9309

Italian idol Marcello Mastroianni came to Britain to play the Grand Duke Nicholas Wladimirovitch Goduno, a poor but sexy Soviet noble, in director Christopher Morahan’s weird 1968 Swinging Sixties heist caper comedy Diamonds for Breakfast. […]

Jan, 27 · in Reviews

The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith **** (1978, Tommy Lewis, Jack Thompson, Ray Barrett, Freddy Reynolds, Angela Punch McGregor) – Classic Movie Review 9308

Director Fred Schepisi’s 1978 The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith stars Tommy Lewis as nice young Australian half-Aborigine Jimmie Blacksmith, who is brought up by bigoted minister the Reverend Neville (Jack Thompson) at the turn of […]

Jan, 27

Diabolically Yours [Diaboliquement Vôtre] ** (1967, Alain Delon, Senta Berger, Peter Mosbacher, Sergio Fantoni) – Classic Movie Review 9307

Senta Berger co-stars with Alain Delon in the intriguing but only moderately successful 1967 dubbed French noir psychological thriller Diabolically Yours [Diaboliquement Vôtre], which turned out to be director Julien Duvivier’s last film. The screenplay […]

Jan, 27

The Devil’s Playground **** (1976, Arthur Dignam, Nick Tate, Simon Burke, Charles McCallum, John Frawley) – Classic Movie Review 9306

Writer-director Fred Schepisi’s impressive 1976 feature début The Devil’s Playground is an autobiographical account of his repressed schooldays in a 50s Catholic seminary preparing boys for the priesthood. The film examines the clash between the […]

Jan, 27

A Hidden Life *** (2019, August Diehl, Valerie Pachner, Maria Simon) – Movie Review

‘Better to suffer injustice than to do it.’ Writer-director Terrence Malick’s challenging A Hidden Life (2019) is a noble enterprise, an incredibly sincere spiritual film, told with austerity worthy of Robert Bresson or Maurice Pialat, […]

Jan, 26

Elvis: That’s the Way It Is **** (1970, Elvis Presley) – Classic Movie Review 9305

Here in Elvis: That’s the Way It Is (1970) is Elvis Presley in regal splendour rehearsing and performing in 1970 on his first concert tour since 1957. Director Denis Sanders looks at Presley backstage, polishing […]

Jan, 26

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