Derek Winnert

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Le sang d’un poète [The Blood of a Poet] ***** (1932, Enrique Rivero, Lee Miller, Pauline Carton, Jean Desbordes) – Classic Movie Review 2986

Poet-film director Jean Cocteau’s standard-setting first film from 1932 is a dazzling series of enigmatic surrealist images conjured up as much to delight as to bewilder. As statues come alive and an executed revolutionary revives, […]

Oct, 17

Morgan: A Suitable Case for Treatment ***** (1966, David Warner, Vanessa Redgrave, Robert Stephens) – Classic Movie Review 2911

Director Karel Reisz’s modishly trendy razzle-dazzle 1966 comedy Morgan: A Suitable Case for Treatment is another pillar of the Swinging Sixties British New Wave cinema. It’s a lovely, funny, appealing film with irrepressible zest and […]

Sep, 14

So Big *** (1932, Barbara Stanwyck, George Brent, Dickie Moore, Bette Davis, Hardie Albright) – Classic Movie Review 2748

Director William A Wellman’s 1932 movie has the distinction of starring two great movie queens – Barbara Stanwyck, very much the star here, and Bette Davis, who catches the eye though she is cast in a […]

Jul, 29

An American in Paris ***** (1951, Gene Kelly, Leslie Caron, Oscar Levant, Nina Foch, Georges Guétary) – Classic Movie Review 2515

Director Vincente Minnelli’s 1951 dance movie An American in Paris was a triumph for him and Gene Kelly, as well as Leslie Caron. Half a dozen Oscars, including Best Picture, poured down on this breath-taking MGM musical, […]

May, 24

Lust for Life **** (1958, Kirk Douglas, Anthony Quinn, James Donald) – Classic Movie Review 2364

Director Vincente Minnelli’s 1958 portrait of the artist offered Kirk Douglas one of his three chances to win an Oscar but in the event he never won and had to be content with an honorary […]

Apr, 06

Faraway, So Close! [In Weiter Ferne, so Nah!] **** (1993, Bruno Ganz, Otto Sander, Solveig Dommartin, Peter Falk, Nastassja Kinski) – Classic Movie Review 2323

In the fascinating and undervalued 1993 sequel to his 1987 international arthouse success Wings of Desire, co-writer-director Wim Wenders revisits a totally changed Berlin as he reunites with his stars Bruno Ganz and Otto Sander, who […]

Mar, 28

Easy Virtue *** (1928, Isabel Jeans, Franklin Dyall, Eric Bransby Williams, Robin Irvine, Ian Hunter) – Classic Movie Review 2287

‘Virtue is its own reward’ they say — but ‘easy virtue’ is society’s reward for a slandered reputation. Director Alfred Hitchcock’s 1928 romantic film is a rather unsatisfactory silent movie of Noël Coward’s interesting 1924 […]

Mar, 20

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