Derek Winnert

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 · in Uncategorized

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 · in Reviews

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

My Night with Maude [Ma Nuit Chez Maud] [My Night at Maud’s] **** (1969, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Françoise Fabian, Marie-Christine Barrault) – Classic Movie Review 8426

The 1969 French charmer My Night with Maude [Ma Nuit Chez Maud] [My Night at Maud’s] is the fourth film of Eric Rohmer’s six Moral Tales (Contes Moreaux). It was nominated for two Oscars for […]

May, 02

Looker *** (1981, Albert Finney, James Coburn, Susan Dey) – Classic Movie Review 8425

Writer-director Michael Crichton’s ambitious and intriguing 1981 sci-fi murder-thriller Looker stars Albert Finney as Beverly Hills plastic surgeon Dr Larry Roberts, who performs a series of minor alterations on a group of models and then […]

May, 02

Look Who’s Talking **** (1989, John Travolta, Kirstie Alley, Olympia Dukakis, George Segal) – Classic Movie Review 8424

Writer-director Amy Heckerling’s 1989 comedy Look Who’s Talking is the movie that started to rejuvenate John Travolta’s career and turned Kirstie Alley into a movie star. Made in Canada, it is a witty and well-acted […]

May, 02

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