Derek Winnert

Someone Is Bleeding [Les Seins de Glace] *** (1974, Alain Delon, Mireille Darc, Claude Brasseur, Nicoletta Machiavelli) – Classic Movie Review 8433

Alain Delon, Mireille Darc, Claude Brasseur and Nicoletta Machiavelli enliven Georges Lautner’s slightly eerie, spooky and unsettling 1974 French adaptation of the Richard Matheson novel Someone Is Bleeding about a strange married couple (Delon, Machiavelli) […]

May, 05 · in Reviews

Shock Treatment [Traitement de Choc] [Doctor in the Nude] **** (1973, Alain Delon, Annie Girardot, Robert Hirsch, Michel Duchaussoy) – Classic Movie Review 8432

Writer-director Alain Jessua’s classy, provocative allegorical 1973 French horror suspense thriller Shock Treatment [Traitement de Choc] is realised in assured performances by Alain Delon and Annie Girardot, and intelligent writing and suspenseful direction from Jessua. […]

May, 04 · in Reviews

Sally in Our Alley **** (1931, Gracie Fields, Ian Hunter, Florence Desmond) – Classic Movie Review 8,431

The 1931 British romantic comedy drama film Sally in Our Alley is the first film of music hall star Gracie Fields, establishing her as a major UK film star. Director Maurice Elvey’s 1931 British romantic […]

May, 04

Shipyard Sally *** (1939, Gracie Fields, Sydney Howard, Morton Selten, Norma Varden) – Classic Movie Review 8430

Director Monty Banks’s lively 1939 British musical comedy Shipyard Sally stars Gracie Fields as failed music-hall singer Sally Fitzgerald, who takes charge of the saloon her father Major Fitzgerald (Sydney Howard) has bought near the John […]

May, 03

Sing As We Go! **** (1934, Gracie Fields, John Loder, Dorothy Hyson) – Classic Movie Review 8429

Director Basil Dean’s bright and breezy 1934 British musical comedy drama Sing as We Go! is by far the most resilient of Gracie Fields’s films, bubbling with the spectacle of Lancashire folk at work and […]

May, 03

My Girlfriend’s Boyfriend [L’Ami de Mon Amie] [Boyfriends and Girlfriends] **** (1987, Emmanuelle Chaulet, Sophie Renoir, Anne-Laure Meury) – Classic Movie Review 8428

The 1987 My Girlfriend’s Boyfriend [L’Ami de Mon Amie] [Boyfriends and Girlfriends] is yet another in French writer-director Eric Rohmer’s superb series of gentle tales of love and life in France. It stars Emmanuelle Chaulet, […]

May, 03

Love in the Afternoon [L’Amour l’après-midi] [Chloe in the Afternoon] (1972, Bernard Verley, Zouzou, Françoise Verley, Daniel Ceccaldi) – Classic Movie Review 8427

The deservedly much admired 1972 French New Wave classic film Love in the Afternoon [L’Amour l’après-midi] [Chloe in the Afternoon] stars Bernard Verley, Zouzou, and Françoise Verley, and is the last of the six of […]

May, 02

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