Derek Winnert

Posts Tagged "kitchen sink realism"

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Cathy Come Home ***** (1966, Carol White, Ray Brooks, Winifred Dennis) – Classic Movie Review 8380

Director Ken Loach’s realistic black and white classic 1966 BBC TV drama The Wednesday Play: Cathy Come Home is a searing indictment of the social services in the British welfare system of the Sixties, focusing on […]

Apr, 19

Four in the Morning *** (1965, Ann Lynn, Judi Dench, Norman Rodway, Brian Phelan, Joe Melia) – Classic Movie Review 8158

Writer-director Anthony Simmons’s fresh and poignant 1965 British bitter-sweet drama Four in the Morning stars Ann Lynn, Judi Dench, Norman Rodway, Brian Phelan and Joe Melia. An excellent cast of mostly British theatre players bring […]

Feb, 20

The Leather Boys **** (1964, Rita Tushingham, Colin Campbell, Dudley Sutton) – Classic Movie Review 7,580

A South London mechanic (Colin Campbell) marries a teenager (Rita Tushingham), but they drift apart, so he takes to going biking with his leather-jacketed gay biker chum (Dudley Sutton), in the trail-blazing 1964 British film […]

Sep, 16

Bypass *** (2014, George MacKay, Benjamin Dilloway, Arabella Arnott, Chanel Cresswell, Matt Cross) – Movie Review

George MacKay stars as the much troubled Tim, who is both a good kid and a criminal to survive in writer-director Duane Hopkins’s northern British thriller drama. The film is bravely grim and bleak but it is […]

Apr, 12

Poor Cow ***** (1967, Carol White, Terence Stamp, John Bindon, Kate Williams, Queenie Watts) – Classic Movie Review 2268

Co-writer/director Ken Loach makes his ground-breaking and eye-catching feature movie début filming Nell Dunn’s novel in 1967. Restored and re-released in 2016, it comes up devastatingly fresh – incisive, poignant and funny too. Carol White triumphs […]

Mar, 15

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