Derek Winnert

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Fear Eats the Soul [Angst Essen Seele Auf] ***** (1973, Brigitte Mira, El Hedi ben Salem, Irm Hermann, Barbara Valentin) – Classic Movie Review 6198

Writer-director Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s 1973 drama is one of his greatest films, a straightforward account of an unlikely love affair between a 60-year-old Munich charlady (the splendid Brigitte Mira) and a 30-year-old Moroccan immigrant worker […]

Nov, 06

The Lonely Guy ** (1984, Steve Martin, Robyn Douglass, Charles Grodin, Judith Ivey, Steve Lawrence) – Classic Movie Review 5149

Steve Martin stars as struggling New York greetings card writer Larry Hubbard who is forced to follow the lifestyle of a single Lonely Guy when his girlfriend Danielle (Robyn Douglass) throws him out. He is […]

Mar, 13

The Whisperers **** (1967, Edith Evans, Eric Portman, Nanette Newman, Ronald Fraser) – Classic Movie Review 2423

Writer-director Bryan Forbes’s sterling 1967 drama The Whisperers showcases Edith Evans’s extraordinary tour-de-force performance as a neglected English working-class old woman haunted by voices and troubled by her rotten criminal son Charlie (Ronald Fraser) and […]

Apr, 24

Blind ***½ (2015, Ellen Dorrit Petersen, Henrik Rafaelsen) – Movie Review

Ellen Dorrit Petersen stars as Ingrid who has recently lost her sight and retreats totally to the safety of her home where she feels in control, alone with her husband Morten (Henrik Rafaelsen) and her thoughts. […]

Mar, 27

Cake ***½ (2014, Jennifer Aniston, Adriana Barraza, Anna Kendrick, Sam Worthington) – Movie Review

Jennifer Aniston can’t really win. Whenever she plays comedy or romcom which she’s so good at, everyone says she’s just coasting, still doing her schlep as Rachel in Friends. And if she does a serious […]

Feb, 19

American Gigolo **** (1980, Richard Gere, Lauren Hutton, Hector Elizondo) – Classic Movie Review 1994

Writer-director Paul Schrader’s stylish, unsettling 1980 erotic thriller offers Richard Gere to find the perfect outlet for an intense display of persuasive performing and sexy narcissism. Gere’s in his element as a male escort called Julian who […]

Dec, 23

Heavy **** (1995, Pruitt Taylor Vince, Shelley Winters, Liv Tyler, Deborah Harry) – Classic Movie Review 1860

Despite its title, debut writer-director James Mangold’s 1995 romantic drama film is a delicate and affecting character study of misfits gathering at an inn in upstate New York. Liv Tyler stars as Callie, a beautiful but kind […]

Nov, 20

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