Derek Winnert

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A Place in the Sun **** (1951, Montgomery Clift, Elizabeth Taylor, Shelley Winters) – Classic Movie Review 3351

Director George Stevens’s then daring 1951 film of Theodore Dreiser’s 1925 novel An American Tragedy was once greatly acclaimed and admired but now it has faded and is unfairly overlooked. The overfree screenplay is based on […]

Feb, 13

Quatermass 2 [Enemy from Space] *** (1957, Brian Donlevy, John Longden, Sidney James, Bryan Forbes, Vera Day) – Classic Movie Review 3165

American star Brian Donlevy is back to reprise his sombre performance as the troubled rocket scientist Professor Bernard Quatermass in the second in Hammer Films’ trio of screen versions of Nigel Kneale’s classic 1950s BBC serials. This […]

Dec, 17

Lonesome Cowboys *** (1968, Viva, Tom Hompertz, Louis Waldon, Eric Emerson, Joe D’Allesandro) – Classic Movie Review 3138

Andy Warhol, Paul Morrisey and their Factory gay lonesome cowboys ride again in heated trashy flesh from the good old bad old days of 1968. Now an amiable-seeming period curio, it hasn’t worn well, but […]

Dec, 08

The Man in the White Suit ***** (1951, Alec Guinness, Cecil Parker, Joan Greenwood, Ernest Thesiger, Michael Gough, Vida Hope) – Classic Movie Review 2819

Director Alexander Mackendrick’s joyous, typically quirky 1951 Ealing Studios comedy stars Alec Guinness as an inventor called Sidney Stratton who discovers a miracle cloth fabric that can never get dirty or wear out. That’s the […]

Aug, 16

Eraserhead **** (1977, Jack Nance, Charlotte Stewart, Allen Joseph) – Movie Review 2528

Writer-designer-producer-director David Lynch’s bizarre, pace-setting 1977 feature film debut, produced by the American Film Institute, was an instant cult hit, propelling him on his brilliant career, though Eraserhead’s dark unpleasantness can be quite alienating. This […]

May, 27

Mon Oncle [My Uncle] ***** (1958, Jacques Tati, Jean-Pierre Zola, Adrienne Servantie) – Classic Movie Review 2411

In the first of his films to be released in colour, co-writer/director/star Jacques Tati is working confidently, imaginatively, inventively and successfully at around the peak of his comic ingenuity and cleverness. Honoured by Hollywood with […]

Apr, 20

The Angry Silence **** (1960, Richard Attenborough, Pier Angeli, Michael Craig, Bernard Lee, Alfred Burke) – Classic Movie Review 2111

Director Guy Green’s 1960 drama The Angry Silence is a refreshingly bracing, grown-up and engrossing thought piece that finds the 1960 British cinema in a surprisingly serious frame of mind in a story that tackles […]

Jan, 24

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