Derek Winnert

March or Die *** (1977, Gene Hackman, Terence Hill, Catherine Deneuve, Max von Sydow, Ian Holm) – Classic Movie Review 7636

Director Dick Richards’s ambitious, meticulously made 1977 old-style adventure movie March or Die stars Gene Hackman, who takes top billing as troubled American French Foreign Legion veteran Major William Foster in a tale that might have […]

Oct, 04 · in Reviews

The Guilty [Den skyldige] **** (2018, Jakob Cedergren, voice of Jessica Dinnage, Omar Shargawi) – Movie Review 

Gustav Möller’s 2018 film The Guilty is a commendably tense and creepy Danish noir thriller, set in the single location of a police station’s emergency telephone call centre. Co-writer/ director Gustav Möller’s 2018 film The […]

Oct, 03 · in Reviews

El Condor ** (1970, Jim Brown, Lee Van Cleef, Patrick O’Neal) – Classic Movie Review 7635

Director John Guillermin’s rough and tough 1970 spaghetti Western El Condor stars Lee Van Cleef and Jim Brown, who play adventurers Jaroo and Luke planning to raid a heavily armed Mexican fortress, commanded by Chavez (Patrick O’Neal), and steal its rumoured […]

Oct, 03

Belle Le Grand ** (1951, Vera Ralston, John Carroll, William Ching, Hope Emerson, John Qualen, Stephen Chase, Harry Morgan, Muriel Lawrence) – Classic Movie Review 7634

Director Allan Dwan’s 1951 Republic Pictures black and white Western movie Belle Le Grand stars Vera Ralston, who plays New Orleans woman Daisy Henshaw, aka the titular Belle Le Grand, now a rich San Francisco […]

Oct, 03

Joy **** (2018, Anwulika Alphonsus, Angela Ekeleme, Mariam Sanusi) – Movie Review

You just know that if a film is call Joy, there will be no darned joy anywhere. And writer-director Sudabeh Mortezai’s 2018 Joy is certainly joyless. It is a tale of woe. Anwulika Alphonsus stars as […]

Oct, 03

La Belle Noiseuse – Divertimento *** (1993, Michel Piccoli, Jane Birkin, Emmanuelle Béart) – Classic Movie Review 7633

Jacques Rivette’s La Belle Noiseuse – Divertimento is a 126-minute cut-down recycling of the long, 240-minute version of his 1991 masterwork La Belle Noiseuse, which has been altered in key scenes (especially the epilogue) and […]

Oct, 03

La Belle Noiseuse **** (1991, Michel Piccoli, Jane Birkin, Emmanuelle Béart) – Classic Movie Review 7632

Director Jacques Rivette’s 1991 French masterwork La Belle Noiseuse stars Michel Piccoli as Edouard Frenhofer, an ageing artist who is fascinated by a lovely young model called Marianne (Emmanuelle Béart), the girlfriend of the young artist […]

Oct, 03

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