Derek Winnert

The Party and the Guests [O slavnosti a hostech] **** (1966, Ivan Vyskocil, Jan Klusák, Jiri Nemec) – Classic Movie Review 8982

All the guests at a garden picnic party during a day’s outing in the countryside keep telling one another that they are having fun, except one unhappy man who goes away chased by the others, […]

Oct, 15 · in Reviews

Party Girl **** (1958, Robert Taylor, Cyd Charisse, Lee J Cobb, John Ireland, Kent Smith, Claire Kelly) – Classic Movie Review 8981

Director Nicholas Ray’s 1958 film noir gangster thriller Party Girl has a lot to offer: a gripping story (by Leo Katcher), a great mood and atmosphere, and fine performances, with acting lightweights Robert Taylor and […]

Oct, 14 · in Uncategorized

Une Partie de Plaisir [Pleasure Party] [Pleasure Game] *** (1975, Paul Gégauff, Danièle Gégauff, Clémence Gégauff, Paula Moore, Giancarlo Sisti) – Classic Movie Review 8980

Director Claude Chabrol’s 1975 Une Partie de Plaisir [Pleasure Party] [Pleasure Game] [Love Match] is a study of an apparently idyllic and blissful but actually disastrous marriage that takes a dark, cynical and bleak view […]

Oct, 14

Une Partie de Campagne [A Day in the Country] ***** (1946, Sylvia Bataille, Jane Marken, Georges D’Arnoux) – Classic Movie Review 8979

Director Jean Renoir’s delightful 1946 French short feature film Une Partie de Campagne [A Day in the Country] – poetic, humorous and evocative – is a cinematic milestone. Set in 1860, Renoir’s carefully constructed, exquisitely […]

Oct, 13

Incitement *** (2019, Yehuda Nahari Halevi, Amitai Yaish, Anat Ravnitzki, Yoav Levi, Daniella Kertesz, Sivan Mast) – Movie Review

Director/ co-writer Yaron Zilberman’s insightful, expertly done psychological thriller Incitement (2019) details a series of profoundly disturbing personal and political events in the year leading up to the assassination of Israel’s Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin […]

Oct, 13

Lure of the Wilderness *** (1952, Jean Peters, Jeffrey Hunter, Constance Smith, Walter Brennan) – Classic Movie Review 8978

Jean Renoir’s 1941 black and white American début movie Swamp Water is remade here in director Jean Negulesco’s 1952 romantic adventure drama Lure of the Wilderness with the definite advantage of Edward Cronjager’s excellent Technicolor […]

Oct, 13

This Land Is Mine *** (1943, Charles Laughton, Maureen O’Hara, George Sanders, Walter Slezak, Una O’Connor, Kent Smith) – Classic Movie Review 8977

Director Jean Renoir’s 1943 black and white wartime drama This Land Is Mine is perfectly constructed and strongly cast but it lacks his usual panache, partly because of Dudley Nichols’s routine screenplay and situations. Charles […]

Oct, 12

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