Derek Winnert

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The Group **** (1966, Candice Bergen, Joan Hackett, Elizabeth Hartman, Shirley Knight, Joanna Pettet, Jessica Walter, Kathleen Widdoes, Larry Hagman, Hal Holbrook) – Classic Movie Review 4705

Mary McCarthy’s Sixties voguish novel about the lives of eight 1933 Vassar-style Ivy-League private girls’ college graduates was one of the popular literary hits of the day and the inevitable 1966 movie version proves an […]

Nov, 26

The Moon and Sixpence **** (1943, George Sanders, Herbert Marshall, Steve Geray, Doris Dudley, Eric Blore) – Classic Movie Review 4682

Writer-director Albert Lewin’s 1943 romantic drama is a compelling and thoughtful literary adaptation of W Somerset Maugham’s classic novel about a money broker who puts art before family. The story is loosely inspired by the life […]

Nov, 22

The Draughtsman’s Contract ***** (1982, Janet Suzman, Anthony Higgins) – Classic Movie Review 4577

Wayward genius writer-director Peter Greenaway’s 1982 British historical mystery is incredibly beautiful looking and most handsomely played, though it can be infuriating, at any rate as a The Name of the Rose-style arty period thriller. […]

Nov, 02

Portrait of Jennie **** (1948, Jennifer Jones, Joseph Cotten, Ethel Barrymore, Lillian Gish, Cecil Kellaway, David Wayne, Albert Sharpe, Henry Hull, Florence Bates) – Classic Movie Review 4568

Director William Dieterle’s mysterious and enjoyable 1948 romance tells an engagingly peculiar story. It stars Joseph Cotten and Jennifer Jones as the destitute, unsuccessful Depression era artist Eben Adams (Cotten) who meets the ghostly, eerily […]

Oct, 30

The Driller Killer *** (1979, Abel Ferrara, Carolyn Marz, Baybi Day) – Classic Movie Review 4315

Abel Ferrara stars in his own notorious, cheaply made ($20,000) and extremely disturbing 1979 horror film as Reno Miller, a psychotic, hallucinating New York frustrated artist, who lives with two room-mates, Carol Slaughter (Carolyn Marz) and Pamela […]

Sep, 08

The Verdict **** (1946, Sydney Greenstreet, Peter Lorre, Joan Lorring, George Coulouris, Rosalind Ivan, Paul Cavanagh, Holmes Herbert) – Classic Movie Review 3,877

Director Don Siegel was fortunate with his 1946 feature film directorial début in having one of the Forties crime thriller’s best teams – Sydney Greenstreet and Peter Lorre – heading the foggy London Victorian film […]

Jun, 16

A Bucket of Blood *** (1959, Dick Miller, Barboura Morris, Anthony Carbone, Ed Nelson) Classic Film Review 3861

Producer-director Roger Corman’s entertaining and berserk 1959 American International Pictures beatnik horror spoof was shot in just five days and cost only $50,000. Written by Charles B Griffith, it is only 65 minutes long. Corman […]

Jun, 14

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