Derek Winnert

Fragment of Fear *** (1970, David Hemmings, Gayle Hunnicutt, Wilfrid Hyde White, Roland Culver, Daniel Massey, Flora Robson) – Classic Movie Review 8,661

The stylish if impenetrable 1970 British mystery thriller film Fragment of Fear stars husband and wife David Hemmings and Gayle Hunnicutt. Director Richard C Sarafian’s 1970 British film Fragment of Fear is a stylish and […]

Jun, 30 · in Reviews

Fifth Avenue Girl [5th Ave Girl] **** (1939, Ginger Rogers, Walter Connolly, Verree Teasdale, Tim Holt, James Ellison, Franklin Pangborn) – Classic Movie Review 8660

Producer-director Gregory La Cava’s 1939 screwball romantic comedy Fifth Avenue Girl [5th Ave Girl] is a sweet Hollywood fairy tale starring Ginger Rogers as a penniless, on-the-dole, plain-Jane called Mary Grey, who is taken in […]

Jun, 29 · in Uncategorized

The Fifteen Streets *** (1989, Owen Teale, Sean Bean, Clare Holman, Ian Bannen, Jane Horrocks, Billie Whitelaw, Frank Windsor, Anny Tobin) – Classic Movie Review 8659

Director David Wheatley’s 1989 historical romantic drama The Fifteen Streets is a very capably directed, incident-filled romance, effectively adapted by Rob Bettinson from a Catherine Cookson novel, with a well-played cast of rich caricatures and […]

Jun, 29

Taris, roi de l’eau [Taris] **** (1931, Jean Taris) – Classic Movie Review 8658

Jean Vigo films the French swimming champion Jean Taris performing different swimming acts as he gives us a tour of his water kingdom in the 10-minute avant garde 1931 sport documentary short film Taris, roi […]

Jun, 29

À Propos de Nice ***** (1930, director Jean Vigo) – Classic Movie Review 8657

Jean Vigo’s deservedly acclaimed 1929 avant-garde ‘point-of-view’ documentary A Propos de Nice satirises the difference between the rich tourists promenading in the sun on the Promenade des Anglais in Nice on the French Cote d’Azur […]

Jun, 29

L’Atalante ***** (1934, Dita Parlo, Jean Dasté, Michel Simon, Gilles Margaritis, Louis Lefebvre) – Classic Movie Review 8656

Director Jean Vigo’s 1934 French classic L’Atalante was cut about by its original distributor Gaumont, but the 1991 restored reissue version confirms its reputation as an enchanting romantic, surrealist, poetic cinema milestone, balancing the realism […]

Jun, 29

Zéro de Conduite [Zero for Conduct] ***** (1933, Jean Dasté, Robert le Flon, Louis Lefebvre, Delphin) – Classic Movie Review 8655

Writer-director Jean Vigo’s brilliantly imaginative, anarchic classic 1933 short feature film Zéro de Conduite [Zero for Conduct] is about the rebellion of three boys in a deeply unpleasant, rigid, repressive French boarding school. Zero for […]

Jun, 29

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