Derek Winnert

Opening Night **** (1977, Gena Rowlands, Ben Gazzara, John Cassavetes, Joan Blondell, Paul Stewart, Zohra Lampert)- Classic Movie Review 9,089

Gena Rowlands is splendid as an ageing actress devastated when her biggest fan dies in an accident on her opening night, in John Cassavetes’s appealing 1977 drama film Opening Night. A long (it runs 144 […]

Nov, 22 · in Reviews

Open Season [Los Cazadores] * (1974, Peter Fonda, John Philip Law, Richard Lynch, William Holden, Cornelia Sharpe) – Classic Movie Review 9088

Director Peter Collinson’s violent, nasty and distasteful 1974 action thriller drama Open Season [Los Cazadores] is based on the novel The All Americans by David D Osborn, and stars Peter Fonda, John Philip Law, Richard Lynch, […]

Nov, 22 · in Reviews

Orders Are Orders ** (1954, Peter Sellers, Sidney James, Tony Hancock, Brian Reece, Margot Grahame, Raymond Huntley, June Thorburn) – Classic Movie Review 9087

Director David Paltenghi’s 1954 comedy Orders Are Orders is an engagingly cast (and grammatically correct) though iffily handled retread of Walter Forde’s vintage Orders Is Orders (1933), with a British army base driven to distraction […]

Nov, 22

Order of Death [Cop Killer] [l’assassino dei poliziotti] *** (1983, Harvey Keitel, John Lydon, Nicole Garcia, Leonard Mann, Sylvia Sidney) – Classic Movie Review 9086

Director Roberto Faenza’s fascinating 1983 Italian crime thriller Order of Death [Cop Killer] [l’assassino dei poliziotti] [Corrupt] is a tautly made and intriguingly written thriller based on Hugh Fleetwood’s 1977 psychological novel The Order of […]

Nov, 21

The Phantom of Liberty [Le fantôme de la liberté] **** (1974, Jean-Claude Brialy, Adolfo Celi, Michel Piccoli) – Classic Movie Review 9085

The Phantom of Liberty [Le fantôme de la liberté] (1974) is the penultimate film of Luis Buñuel (1900–1983), sandwiched between his great classics The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972) and That Obscure Object of […]

Nov, 21

The Milky Way [La Voie Lactée] **** (1969, Laurent Terzieff, Paul Frankeur, Delphine Seyrig, Edith Scob, Alain Cuny, Bernard Verley, Michel Piccoli, Pierre Clémenti) – Classic Movie Review 9084

Co-writer/ director Luis Buñuel brings the full force of his wit and irony to bear on his attack against Catholicism in his 1969 comedy drama The Milky Way [La Voie Lactée], which focuses on the […]

Nov, 21

Last Christmas (2019, Emilia Clarke, Michelle Yeoh, Henry Golding) – Movie Review

Last Christmas is a would-be heart-warmer that puts you in a bad mood – that’s a rare trick! It starts promisingly enough, but after seven or eight minutes, it stalls, and the jokes just sit […]

Nov, 20

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