Derek Winnert

Posts Tagged "Paris"

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The Vagabond King ** (1956, Oreste Kirkop, Kathryn Grayson, Rita Moreno, Cedric Hardwicke, Walter Hampden, Leslie Nielsen, William Prince, Jack Lord) – Classic Movie Review 4761

Maltese tenor Oreste Kirkop is tuneful and dashing in the 1956 operetta film The Vagabond King. Kathryn Grayson warbles ably as Catherine de Vaucelles and Walter Hampden is outstanding as a wily King Louis XI. […]

Dec, 05

Francofonia ***½ (2015, Louis-Do de Lencquesaing, Benjamin Utzerath, Vincent Nemeth, Johanna Korthals Altes, Aleksandr Sokurov) – Movie Review

Russian writer-director Aleksandr Sokurov’s self-consciously eccentric 2015 mix of documentary and drama is provocative and fascinating. Sometimes, it is well worth trying something out of your usual comfort zone. Sokurov fills the screen with some great ideas […]

Nov, 09

A Song to Remember ** (1944, Cornel Wilde, Merle Oberon, Paul Muni, Stephen Bekassy, George Coulouris, George Macready, Nina Foch) – Classic Movie Review 4602

Put the 1945 film A Song to Remember on your Chopin Liszt! Cornel Wilde as Frédéric Chopin earned an Academy Award nomination as Best Actor – his only ever Oscar nomination. Stephen Bekassy co-stars as […]

Nov, 07

The Pink Panther * (2006, Steve Martin, Kevin Kline, Jean Reno, Emily Mortimer, Henry Czerny, Kristin Chenoweth, Roger Rees, Beyoncé Knowles) – Classic Movie Review 4521

The world’s most famous diamond has been snatched from the finger of a murder victim and only one man can solve the case. But Inspector Clouseau (Steve Martin) hasn’t a clue and he’ll crack everything […]

Oct, 24

Nocturama **** (2016, Finnegan Oldfield, Vincent Rottiers, Hamza Meziani, Manal Issa) – Movie Review

Writer-director Bertrand Bonello’s delirious, bonkers thriller is set in a troubled Paris, where a group of disaffected young men and women in their early twenties carry out four bomb attacks at various central locations and then hide […]

Oct, 17

Personal Shopper ***½ (2016, Kristen Stewart, Lars Eidinger, Sigrid Bouaziz) – Movie Review

Kristen Stewart teams up with writer-director Olivier Assayas after Clouds of Sils Maria (2014) to star as a personal shopper for a rich, busy star in a movie that dangerously tries mix a ghost story with a Paris fashion world drama and […]

Oct, 10

Frantz **** (2016, Paula Beer, Pierre Niney, Ernst Stötzner, Marie Gruber, Anton von Lucke, Cyrielle Clair, Alice de Lencquesaing) – Movie Review

Writer-director François Ozon’s incredibly romantic, gorgeously bitter-sweet drama stars Paula Beer as young German woman Anna who is grieving the death of her fiancé Frantz in the fighting in World War One France. She lives in a German small town […]

Oct, 06

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