Derek Winnert

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Dancin’ Thru the Dark ***½ (1990, Claire Hackett, Ben Murphy, Con O’Neill, Peter Beckett ) – Classic Movie Review 9822

Director Mike Ockrent’s good-natured, warm-hearted 1990 British comedy Dancin’ Thru the Dark stars Claire Hackett as Linda, who is out on a wild hen-night with her hen friends while her fiancé Dave (Conrad Nelson) is […]

May, 26 · in Reviews

Are You Being Served? ** (1977, John Inman, Mollie Sugden, Frank Thornton, Trevor Bannister, Wendy Richard) – Classic Movie Review 9821

Director Bob Kellett’s relatively harmless 1977 British comedy Are You Being Served? is the big-screen spinoff from the much-loved long-running BBC TV series as the staff of the London Grace Brothers department store flies off […]

May, 26 · in Reviews

Le diable probablement [The Devil, Probably] **** (1977, Antoine Monnier, Tina Irissari, Henri de Maublanc) – Classic Movie Review 9820

Antoine Monnier stars as alienated, tormented soul Charles, who is living his life walking under a cloud and decides that suicide is the only option, in writer-director Robert Bresson’s typically distinguished and profound, gloomy and […]

May, 25

Arena **½ (1953, Gig Young, Jean Hagen, Polly Bergen, Barbara Lawrence, Harry Morgan) – Classic Movie Review 9819

Director Richard Fleischer’s 1953 Arena is an interesting, well set-up, nicely cast and slightly above run-of-the-mill rodeo film drama. Filmed in Ansco Color, it is supposedly the first 3D Western feature. Gig Young stars as […]

May, 25

Picking Up the Pieces ** (2000, Woody Allen, Sharon Stone, David Schwimmer, Elliott Gould, Cheech Marin) – Classic Movie Review 9818

Director Alfonso Arau’s 2000 Picking Up the Pieces stars Woody Allen as a kosher butcher called Tex, who catches his faithless wife Candy (Sharon Stone) in flagrante and kills her. After he buries her chopped-up […]

May, 25

L’Argent **** (1983, Christian Patey, Sylvie Van den Elsen, Michel Briguet) – Classic Movie Review 9817

Inspired by Faux Billet by Leo Tolstoy, the 1983 crime drama L’Argent is the 13th and last film directed by French master Robert Bresson (1901–1999). Robert Bresson uses Leo Tolstoy’s story The False Note about […]

May, 25

Les anges du péché [Angels of Sin] *** (1943, Renée Faure, Jany Holt, Sylvie) – Classic Movie Review 9816

The 1943 French film Les Anges du Péché [Angels of the Street] [Angels of Sin] is a well-crafted and deeply felt, though rather obscure, esoteric and slightly melodramatic début film by French master Robert Bresson. […]

May, 24

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