Derek Winnert

Violette Nozière [Violette] **** (1978, Isabelle Huppert, Stéphane Audran, Jean Carmet) – Classic Movie Review 8803

Director Claude Chabrol enjoys himself on his own ground with this taut 1978 psychological thriller Violette Nozière [Violette], based on the true story of the 18-year-old Parisian, Violette Nozière (Isabelle Huppert), who poisoned her parents […]

Aug, 07 · in Reviews

Wild Geese II ** (1985, Scott Glenn, Barbara Carrera, Edward Fox, Laurence Olivier, Robert Webber, Kenneth Haigh, Stratford Johns) – Classic Movie Review 8802

The final curtain on Laurence Olivier’s film career was as Rudolf Hess in director Peter R Hunt’s below-par 1985 action movie Wild Geese II, in which Scott Glenn stars as adventurer John Haddad, who is […]

Aug, 07 · in Reviews

All the Fine Young Cannibals *** (1960, Robert Wagner, Natalie Wood, Susan Kohner, George Hamilton, Pearl Bailey) – Classic Movie Review 8801

The MGM studio advertised it as ‘There are no rules… there is no limit… IN THE LOVE-HUNGRY WORLD OF THESE YOUNG SOPHISTICATES!’ Money, partner swapping, drugs and restless youth: MGM thought that director Michael Anderson’s […]

Aug, 06

The Bravest [Lie huo ying xiong] *** (2019, Xiaoming Huang, Jiang Du, Zhuo Tan) – Movie Review

Director Tony Chan’s nail-biting survival action drama The Bravest [Lie huo ying xiong] (2019) is viscerally intense and successful both as a disaster movie and a tribute to China’s fire-fighters. It is staged on an awesomely […]

Aug, 06

An Unmarried Woman **** (1978, Jill Clayburgh, Alan Bates, Michael Murphy, Cliff Gorman, Pat Quinn) – Classic Movie Review 8800

Writer-producer-director Paul Mazursky’s 1978 romantic comedy drama An Unmarried Woman is an insightful tale of troubled New Yorkers, as married woman Erica (Jill Clayburgh) and her teenage daughter are suddenly abandoned by rich, successful husband […]

Aug, 06

Blume in Love **** (1973, George Segal, Susan Anspach, Kris Kristofferson, Marsha Mason, Shelley Winters, Paul Mazursky) Classic Movie Review 8799

The 1973 movie Blume in Love is a thoroughly enjoyable romantic comedy drama with a few home truths from writer-producer-director Paul Mazursky. George Segal is on his liveliest form as Stephen Blume, a divorced divorce […]

Aug, 06

L’amore **** (1948, Anna Magnani, Federico Fellini, Peparuolo, Amelia Robert) – Classic Movie Review 8798

Director Roberto Rossellini’s 1948 black and white double bill drama L’Amore [Ways of Love] [Woman] finds him leaving his usual area of neo-realism far behind for this heated, actress’s tour-de-force feature with two distinct episodes. […]

Aug, 05

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