Derek Winnert

Emmanuelle ** (1974, Sylvia Kristel, Alain Cuny, Marika Green, Daniel Sarky) – Classic Movie Review 8908

Director Just Jaeckin’s 1974 French X-movie sex drama Emmanuelle is soft-focus, soft-core porn, with Sylvia Kristel propelled to stardom finding a surprise enormous international hit as Emmanuelle, an embassy official’s beautiful young model wife, filling […]

Sep, 15 · in Reviews

Lady Chatterley’s Lover [L’Amant de Lady Chatterley] ** (1955, Danielle Darrieux, Leo Genn, Erno Crisa) – Classic Movie Review 8907

Director Marc Allégret’s 1955 black and white drama Lady Chatterley’s Lover [L’Amant de Lady Chatterley] is an early French adaptation of the once scandalous D H Lawrence novel about a high-born English lady, Lady Constance […]

Sep, 15 · in Reviews

Lady Chatterley’s Lover * (1981, Sylvia Kristel, Nicholas Clay, Shane Briant) – Classic Movie Review 8906

Director Just Jaeckin’s 1981 soft-core sex film Lady Chatterley’s Lover is the first English language version of D H Lawrence’s infamous novel, with Emmanuelle star Sylvia Kristel as the sexually frustrated Lady Constance Chatterley in […]

Sep, 15

The Fifth Musketeer ** (1979, Sylvia Kristel, Ursula Andress, Beau Bridges, José Ferrer, Lloyd Bridges, Alan Hale Jr, Rex Harrison, Olivia de Havilland, Cornel Wilde, Ian McShane, Helmut Dantine) – Classic Movie Review 8905

Director Ken Annakin assembles a friendly all-star cast for the 1979 adventure The Fifth Musketeer [Behind the Iron Mask], his spectacular-looking, but turgidly scripted remake of Alexandre Dumas Père’s classic novel The Vicomte of Bragelonne: […]

Sep, 15

Lady in the Iron Mask *** (1952, Louis Hayward, Patricia Medina, Alan Hale Jr, Judd Holdren, Steve Brodie) – Classic Movie Review 8904

Louis Hayward, who had been The Man in the Iron Mask (that is Prince Philippe of Gascony, the nice twin brother of despotic French King Louis XIV) in the 1939 film, this time stars as […]

Sep, 14

Full Frontal * (2002, Julia Roberts, Brad Pitt,, David Hyde Pierce, David Duchovny, Catherine Keener, Mary McCormack) – Classic Movie Review 8903

You would think that a film with Julia Roberts, Brad Pitt, David Hyde Pierce, David Duchovny, Catherine Keener, Mary McCormack and Blair Underwood, directed by Steven (Ocean’s Eleven) Soderbergh, would be a must. But Steven […]

Sep, 14

Downton Abbey ** (2019, Hugh Bonneville, Elizabeth McGovern, Allen Leech, Maggie Smith, Imelda Staunton, Phyllis Logan, Penelope Wilton, Jim Carter) – Movie Review

Director Michael Engler’s 2019 drama Downton Abbey is a smooth, amusing and entertaining, but cliched, clunky, corny, cosy and choppy spinoff from the Downton Abbey TV show that ran six seasons and 52 episodes from […]

Sep, 14

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