Derek Winnert

Posts Tagged "dance"

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The Bedroom Window **** (1987, Steve Guttenberg, Elizabeth McGovern, Isabelle Huppert) – Classic Movie Review 4,387

Curtis Hanson’s twisty, quite brilliant 1987 neo-noir film The Bedroom Window stars Steve Guttenberg as Terry, who makes love to Sylvia (Isabelle Huppert), his boss’s wife. There ensues a nail-biting, sexy adult thriller that Hitchcock […]

Sep, 21

Step Up 4: Miami Heat [Step Up Revolution] *** (2012, Kathryn McCormick, Ryan Guzman, Peter Gallagher, Cleopatra Coleman) – Classic Movie Review 4383

With its stupendous dancing and good spirits, but creaky everything else, director Scott Speer’s 2012 Step Up 4 is pleasant and welcome enough, even if it now has no relation to Channing Tatum’s original 2006 Step Up. Kathryn McCormick […]

Sep, 19

The Triple Echo [Soldier in Skirts] *** (1972, Glenda Jackson, Oliver Reed, Brian Deacon) – Classic Movie Review 4278

Michael Apted directs this intriguing 1972 British film adaptation of an H E Bates story set in Wiltshire during World War Two. In his film debut, 23-year-old Brian Deacon stars as Barton, a young English soldier […]

Sep, 01

Broadway Melody of 1940 **** (1940, Fred Astaire, George Murphy, Eleanor Powell, Frank Morgan) – Classic Movie Review 3627

Director Norman Taurog’s 1940 musical brings the series of four Broadway Melody movies to an end in great style with Fred Astaire and George Murphy kicking up a storm as Johnny Brett and King Shaw, […]

Apr, 27

Royal Wedding [Wedding Bells] ***½ (1950, Fred Astaire, Jane Powell, Sarah Churchill, Peter Lawford, Keenan Wynn) – Classic Movie Review 3380

Director Stanley Donen’s tasty 1950 movie finds the MGM studios in the mood for cashing in the worldwide publicity and frenzy surrounding Queen Elizabeth’s wedding to Prince Philip with a cute musical with Fred Astaire and […]

Feb, 19

Le Bal **** (1983, Étienne Guichard, Régis Bouquet, Francesco De Rosa) – Classic Movie Review 3287

Writer-director Ettore Scola’s beautiful, wordless 1983 French film tells the 50-year story of a ballroom in France from the 1920s onwards. Le Bal condenses five decades of 20th-century European history into a single night at a dance hall […]

Jan, 20

Shall We Dance ***** (1937, Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Edward Everett Horton, Eric Blore, Harriet Hoctor, Jerome Cowan, Ketti Gallian, William Brisbane) – Classic Movie Review 2952

Director Mark Sandrich’s delicious vintage 1937 musical Shall We Dance once again pairs the perfect song and dance team of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, who decide that indeed they shall dance. And this time […]

Oct, 04

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