Derek Winnert

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England Made Me *** (1973, Peter Finch, Michael York, Hildegard Neil) – Classic Movie Review 9268

Director Peter Duffell’s 1972 England Made Me is a useful and intelligent, if slightly chilly version of Graham Greene’s fine early novel transposed to Seventies fashionable Nazi Germany from its original setting in Sweden. Michael […]

Jan, 16

The Guru *** (1969, Rita Tushingham, Michael York, Utpal Dutt) – Classic Movie Review 9233

Director James Ivory’s 1969 comedy drama The Guru stars Michael York as English pop singer Tom Pickle, who goes to Bombay, India, to learn the sitar (this is the late Sixties) with maestro Ustad Zafar […]

Jan, 06

Nobody Runs Forever [The High Commissioner] * (1968, Rod Taylor, Christopher Plummer, Lilli Palmer) – Classic Movie Review 9129

Director Ralph Thomas’s 1968 Nobody Runs Forever [The High Commissioner] stars Rod Taylor as Australian police detective Sergeant Scobie Malone, who is sent to London to investigate the dodgy death of the first wife of […]

Dec, 05

Can She Bake a Cherry Pie? *** (1983, Karen Black, Michael Emil, Michael Margotta, Frances Fisher) – Classic Movie Review 8956

Writer-director Henry Jaglom’s tasty 1983 comedy romance Can She Bake a Cherry Pie? is a whimsically amusing, talky, plotless film from the admired film-maker, with starring Karen Black as edgy Zee, taking up with hypochondriac divorcee […]

Oct, 01

Parting Glances **** (1986, John Bolger, Richard Ganoung, Steve Buscemi) – Classic Movie Review 8867

Writer-director Bill Sherwood’s 1986 Queer Cinema drama Parting Glances is a powerful bittersweet look at New York gay life in the Eighties, with funny, touching and heart-breakingly tragic moments. Writer-director Sherwood works little wonders with […]

Aug, 25

Bait *** (2019, Edward Rowe, Mary Woodvine, Simon Shepherd, Giles King) – Movie Review

Writer/ director Mark Jenkin’s Bait (2019) is a bold independent experimental film focusing on a brother brother conflict and the clash between tourism and the old fishing boat values down old Cornwall way. It runs […]

Aug, 25

The Amorous Prawn [The Amorous Mr Prawn] *** (1962, Dennis Price, Ian Carmichael, Joan Greenwood, Cecil Parker, Derek Nimmo, Liz Fraser, Robert Beatty, Finlay Currie) – Classic Movie Review 8790

Director Anthony Kimmins’s 1962 British comedy The Amorous Prawn has the huge advantage of entertaining people to perform it, and they make much of this film version of the director’s gently farcical stage hit. Joan […]

Aug, 03

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