Derek Winnert

Shout at the Devil *** (1976, Lee Marvin, Roger Moore, Barbara Parkins, Ian Holm) – Classic Movie Review 8444

Director Peter R Hunt’s 1976 British war adventure film Shout at the Devil is a robust and welcome if undistinguished old-style action adventure thriller, with Lee Marvin as boozy American entrepreneur Colonel Flynn O’Flynn and […]

May, 07 · in Reviews

A Short Film About Killing [Krótki film o zabijaniu] **** (1988, Miroslaw Baka, Krzysztof Globisz, Jan Tesarz, Zbigniew Zapasiewicz) – Classic Movie Review 8443

Filmed in autumnal hues, with unsettling camera shots and jump cuts to disturbing images, Polish director Krzysztof Kieslowski’s thought-provoking 1988 crime drama A Short Film About Killing [Krótki film o zabijaniu] is the deeply troubling […]

May, 07 · in Reviews

A Short Film About Love [Krótki film o milosci] **** (1988, Grazyna Szapolowska, Olaf Lubaszenko, Stefania Iwinska) – Classic Movie Review 8442

Polish director Krzysztof Kieslowski (1941–1996) expanded the 61-minute sixth part of his Ten Commandments TV series into an 87-minute cinema feature as A Short Film About Love [Krótki film o milosci]. It is the most romantic […]

May, 07

Lenny **** (1974, Dustin Hoffman, Valerie Perrine, Jan Miner) – Classic Movie Review 8441

Dustin Hoffman sizzles in one of his finest performances as controversial, self destructive Jewish club stand up comedian Lenny Bruce in the 1974 biopic Lenny, brilliantly directed by Bob Fosse and shot in dazzling, chic […]

May, 07

Dog Day [Canicule] *** (1984, Lee Marvin, Miou-Miou, Jean Carmet, Victor Lanoux, Bernadette Lafont, David Bennent) – Classic Movie Review 8440

Lee Marvin is ideal as Jimmy Cobb, a brutal American bank robber on the run with several million dollars, hiding out with a French country family of farmers, who become fascinated by his almost magical presence […]

May, 06

The Dogs of War ** (1980, Christopher Walken, Tom Berenger, Colin Blakely, Winston Ntshona, Hugh Millais, Paul Freeman, JoBeth Williams) – Classic Movie Review 8,439

The 1980 war movie The Dogs of War is a competent all-action film version of Frederick Forsyth’s bestseller, with a young Christopher Walken intriguing as a war-scarred mercenary in a fictional West African republic, Zangaro. […]

May, 06

A Doll’s House *** (1973, Jane Fonda, David Warner, Trevor Howard, Delphine Seyrig, Edward Fox, Anna Wing) – Classic Movie Review 8438

Director Joseph Losey’s 1973 A Doll’s House stars feminist and activist Jane Fonda, who turns in a fascinating ‘modern’ performance as Nora Helmer, who is forced to rebel against her stifled life and her bossy, […]

May, 06

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