Derek Winnert

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The Killing of Sister George **** (1968, Beryl Reid, Susannah York, Coral Browne) – Classic Movie Review 6553

Director Robert Aldrich’s dark-toned 1969 lesbian drama features a splendid, career-best performance by Beryl Reid as June ‘George’ Buckridge, the ageing, bad-tempered, drunken lesbian actress whose imminent demise in a radio serial makes life hell […]

Jan, 13

The Party **** (2017, Patricia Clarkson, Kristin Scott Thomas, Timothy Spall, Cillian Murphy, Emily Mortimer, Bruno Ganz, Cherry Jones) – Movie Review

‘You’re a first class lesbian and a second rate thinker. Must be all those women’s studies.’ Writer-director Sally Potter’s 71-minute black and white tragic-comedy drama is great – stylish, witty and clever. I hadn’t expected […]

Dec, 28

Holy Smoke ** (1999, Kate Winslet, Harvey Keitel, Julie Hamilton) – Classic Movie Review 6390

Director Jane Campion co-writes the screenplay of her 1999 Australian drama film with her sister Anna. Confident and struggling at the same time, it is a peculiar, downright odd film, with attractive elements that include its oddness. […]

Dec, 11

Bright Young Things * (2003, Michael Sheen, Stephen Campbell Moore, Emily Mortimer, Dan Aykroyd) – Classic Movie Review 6057

Writer-director Stephen Fry fumbles his 2003 film adaptation of Evelyn Waugh’s superb satirical novel Vile Bodies in his directing debut, feebly sending up the British press and Thirties posh folk, the Bright Young Things of […]

Oct, 04

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

Someone’s Watching Me! **** (1978, Lauren Hutton, David Birney, Adrienne Barbeau, Charles Cyphers, James Murtaugh) – Classic Movie Review 6009

Writer-director John Carpenter 1978 classic TV movie thriller is in the best Alfred Hitchcock vein. It is suspensefully directed with a highly attractive, gutsy performance from Lauren Hutton as Leigh Michaels, a TV news director […]

Sep, 09

Boys on the Side *** (1995, Whoopi Goldberg, Mary-Louise Parker, Drew Barrymore, Matthew McConaughy, James Remar, Billy Wirth) – Classic Movie Review 5826

Whoopi Goldberg, Mary-Louise Parker and Drew Barrymore star as three very different women who share a cross-country car trip to escape their lousy lives and rotten menfolk and/or emotional vacuums in a big heartwarming, bitter-sweet […]

Jul, 29

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