Derek Winnert

Posts Tagged "gay interest"

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The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant [Die Bitteren Tränen der Petra von Kant ] ***** (1975, Margit Carstensen, Hanna Schygulla, Irm Hermann) – Classic Movie Review 6056

Writer-producer-director Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s weird though utterly compelling 1972 German film The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant about love, power and lesbian passions is one of his finest movies, now a much acclaimed classic. […]

Oct, 03

The Cakemaker **** (2017, Tim Kalkhof, Sarah Adler, Roy Miller, Zohar Shtrauss) – Movie Review 

Tim Kalkhof gives the warmest and most appealing of performances as Tomas, a gay German pastry maker working in a tasty cake shop and cafe in Berlin, where a married man Oren (Roy Miller) arrives and asks […]

Sep, 29

Cargo *** (2017, Sebastien Dewaele, Sam Louwyck, Wim Willaert, Josse De Pauw, Wennie De Ruyck, Gilles De Schryver) – Movie Review 

Co-writer/ director Gilles Coulier’s drama is incredibly dark, dour, raw and bleak, but a true humanity and a deeply hidden central core of warmth are to be found here. If there is a laugh anywhere, it […]

Sep, 22

Nijinsky *** (1980, Alan Bates, George De La Pena, Leslie Browne) – Classic Movie Review 6027

Director Herbert Ross follows his hit 1977 dance movie The Turning Point with this sumptuously realised, passionately told, involvingly acted 1980 film version of the true-life gay love story of the tragic obsession of the choreographer […]

Sep, 15

Connecting Rooms * (1970, Bette Davis, Michael Redgrave, Alexis Kanner, Kay Walsh, Gabrielle Drake, Leo Genn) – Classic Movie Review 6015

Writer/ producer/ director Franklin Gollings’s sluggish and disappointing 1969 drama stars a miscast Bette Davis as a rather sad street-musician cellist called Wanda Fleming and a better cast Michael Redgrave as a dismissed gay ex-schoolteacher […]

Sep, 12

Robot Monster * (1953, George Nader, Gregory Moffett, Claudia Barrett, Selena Royle, John Mylong) – Classic Movie Review 5902

‘MOON MONSTERS LAUNCH ATTACK AGAINST EARTH! How can science meet the menace of astral assassins? New Science Fiction Thrills! Adventures Into The Future in New TRU-3 Dimension’. ‘Incredible! Unbelievable! Told The Untamed Way!’ Producer-director Phil […]

Aug, 13

Tom of Finland **** (2017, Pekka Strang, Jakob Oftebro, Werner Daehn, Troy T Scott, Jan Böhme) – Movie Review

Provocative, warm-hearted, informative, involving and entertaining. Surprisingly expensive-looking production, with a good feel for its various periods. Well acted, smartly made. Award-winning film-maker Dome Karukoski celebrates the life and work of gay liberation hero Touko Laaksonen, aka […]

Aug, 12

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