Derek Winnert

Montparnasse 19 [Les Amants de Montparnasse] **** (Gérard Philipe, Lilli Palmer, Anouk Aimée, Gérard Séty, Lino Ventura, Lea Padovani, Lila Kedrova) – Classic Movie Review 8670

Director Jacques Becker’s penultimate film, the 1958 artist biopic Montparnasse 19 [Les Amants de Montparnasse], gives a fascinating insight into the life of Italian tubercular, alcoholic, poor painter and sculptor Amedeo Modigliani (1884-1920), famed for […]

Jul, 03 · in Uncategorized

Casque d’Or ***** (1952, Simone Signoret, Serge Reggiani, Claude Dauphin) – Classic Movie Review 8,669

The 1952 Casque d’Or is a dazzling example of the postwar French film, perfectly capturing the nostalgic poetic-pessimistic mood of the time. It won one BAFTA Film Award for Best Foreign Actress (Simone Signoret). Director […]

Jul, 03 · in Uncategorized

Le Trou [The Hole] **** (1960, Philippe Leroy, Marc Michel, André Bervil, Jean Keraudy, Michel Constantin) – Classic Movie Review 8668

Director Jacques Becker’s gritty 1960 French crime thriller / drama Le Trou [The Hole] tells a grim but gripping and intelligent escape story, based on a novel by José Giovanni but taken from real life, […]

Jul, 02

John Goldfarb, Please Come Home! ** (1965, Shirley MacLaine, Peter Ustinov, Richard Crenna) – Classic Movie Review 8667

Director J Lee Thompson’s 1965 John Goldfarb, Please Come Home! Is an off-target, iffy, campy and very silly Sixties satirical comedy from writer William Peter Blatty, the man who wrote The Exorcist. Richard Crenna plays […]

Jul, 02

Ghosts of Mars *** (2001, Natasha Henstridge, Ice Cube, Pam Grier) – Classic Movie Review 8666

John Carpenter’s 2001 movie Ghosts of Mars is enjoyably silly, if trashy sci-fi horror action entertainment, directed with tongue firmly planted in cheek by Carpenter, who keeps it fast and exciting, and quite tough toned. […]

Jul, 01

John and Mary **** (1969, Dustin Hoffman, Mia Farrow, Michael Tolan, Tyne Daly) – Classic Movie Review 8665

Director Peter Yates’s 1969 romantic drama John and Mary tells a slender but beguiling little anecdote with the help of charming turns from two then sweet, upcoming young players, Dustin Hoffman and Mia Farrow as […]

Jul, 01

Pufnstuf *** (1970, Jack Wild, Billie Hayes, Martha Raye, Cass Elliot) – Classic Movie Review 8664

Director Hollingsworth Morse’s 1970 family comedy adventure Pufnstuf is an adaptation for the big screen of the children’s TV series H R Pufnstuf (17 episodes, 1969-1970), which will fill many a baby boomer with nostalgia […]

Jul, 01

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