Derek Winnert

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Journey into Autumn [Dreams] [Kvinnodröm] *** (1955, Eva Dahlbeck, Harriet Andersson, Gunnar Björnstrand, Ulf Palme) – Classic Movie Review 9687

The 1955 Swedish drama Journey into Autumn [Dreams] [Kvinnodröm] is a lesser but still intriguing and important early Ingmar Bergman film about fashion photographer Susanne (Eva Dahlbeck) and her young model Doris (Harriet Andersson)’s trip […]

Apr, 28

Come Back Charleston Blue *** (1972, Godfrey Cambridge, Raymond St Jacques, Peter De Anda) – Classic Movie Review 9495

Come Back Charleston Blue is an underrated blaxploitation comedy crime action thriller from the first (Seventies) wave of black movies. Director Mark Warren’s 1972 sequel to Cotton Comes to Harlem (based on the Chester Himes […]

Mar, 11

Tell Me That You Love Me, Junie Moon **** (1970, Liza Minnelli, Ken Howard, Robert Moore, Kay Thompson, Leonard Frey, James Coco, Wayne Tippit, Guy Sorel) – Classic Movie Review 9473

Director Otto Preminger tugs determinedly at the heartstrings, and, despite the odd slip into sentimentality and plot contrivance, gets through to the target in his beguilingly sweet and sensitive 1970 drama Tell Me That You […]

Mar, 07

The Thief Who Came to Dinner *** (1973, Ryan O’Neal, Jacqueline Bisset, Warren Oates, Jill Clayburgh, Charles Cioffi, Ned Beatty) – Classic Movie Review 9,450

The 1973 film The Thief Who Came to Dinner is an often sparkling caper thriller, with an on-form Ryan O’Neal as Webster McGee, a charming diamond thief playing cat and mouse with Warren Oates’s canny […]

Mar, 01

A Fine Pair [Ruba al prossimo tuo] ** (1968, Rock Hudson, Claudia Cardinale, Tomas Milian) – Classic Movie Review 8819

Director Francesco Maselli’s below-par 1968 Swinging Sixties Italian comedy thriller A Fine Pair [Ruba al prossimo tuo] stars Rock Hudson and Claudia Cardinale, reunited from Blindfold (1966), who make a fine pair as a married […]

Aug, 11

Charlie Chan at Monte Carlo ** (1937, Warner Oland, Keye Luke, Virginia Field) – Classic Movie Review 8689

Alas, director Eugene Forde’s 1938 thriller Charlie Chan at Monte Carlo is Warner Oland’s last Chan adventure, and it is hard to get excited about its plot concerning missing metallurgic bonds while Chan is on […]

Jul, 09

Camille Claudel **** (1988, Isabelle Adjani, Gérard Depardieu, Madeleine Robinson, Alain Cuny) – Classic Movie Review 8679

The doomed love affair between the famous sculptor Auguste Rodin (Gérard Depardieu) and his student assistant Camille Claudel (Isabelle Adjani) is exquisitely brought to life by two of the great names of Eighties French cinema […]

Jul, 06

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