Derek Winnert

Posts Tagged "photograph"

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Photographing Fairies ** (1997, Toby Stephens, Ben Kingsley, Edward Hardwicke, Frances Barber, Ben Kingsley, Emily Woof, Philip Davis) – Classic Movie Review 6289

A love story that extends into the next world, a spot of sleuthing with Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Edward Hardwicke), and Steven Spielberg-style supernatural creatures flying around the English countryside. This 1997 British fantasy mystery […]

Nov, 22

The Asphyx *** (1972, Robert Stephens, Robert Powell, Jane Lapotaire) – Classic Movie Review 6148

Director Peter Newbrook’s macabre 1973 British horror movie stars Robert Stephens as Sir Hugo Cunningham, an obsessed brilliant Victorian scientist who traps the spirit of death (the Greek-named Asphyx of the title), which supposedly enters bodies […]

Oct, 27

Hysteria ** (1965, Robert Webber, Anthony Newlands, Jennifer Jayne, Maurice Denham, Lelia Goldoni) – Classic Movie Review 5,653

‘TERRIFYING SUSPENSE… it will shock you out of your seat!’ The 1965 film Hysteria is the third and last of director Freddie Francis’s enjoyable Psycho-esque Hammer Horror psychological mystery thriller trilogy.  ‘TERRIFYING SUSPENSE… it will […]

Jun, 22

Beau Hunks *** (1931, Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy) – Classic Movie Review 5410

‘Love comes: Mr Hardy is at last conscious of the grand passion – Mr Laurel isn’t even conscious of the Grand Canyon.’ Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy enlist in the Foreign Legion when Ollie tries […]

May, 07

Elvis & Nixon ***½ (2016, Michael Shannon, Kevin Spacey, Alex Pettyfer, Colin Hanks) – Movie Review

Director Liza Johnson’s engaging and engrossing 2016 shaggy dog story is the previously untold true one of the peculiar meeting between Elvis Presley and US President Richard Nixon on the morning of 21 December 1970. Only in America! The screenplay by Joey Sagal, […]

Jul, 01

Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown [Mujeres al Borde de un Ataque de Nervios] **** (1988, Carmen Maura, Antonio Banderas, María Barranco, Rossy de Palma, Julieta Serrano) – Classic Movie Review 3577

This outrageous, stylised, dazzling 1988 Spanish screwball comedy deservedly made the international reputation of Spanish director Pedro Almodóvar, turning him from enfant terrible into one of cinema’s biggest names. In a breakout crossover hit, it […]

Apr, 16

Blowup [Blow-Up] ***** (1966, David Hemmings, Vanessa Redgrave, Sarah Miles, Jane Birkin, Gillian Hills, Verushka, Peter Bowles, John Castle) – Classic Movie Review 2,836

Michelangelo Antonioni came to London in 1966 to make his multi-layered puzzle thriller film Blowup. David Hemmings plays a modish fashion photographer who pictures blonde Jane Birkin romping around with brunette Gillian Hills. Esteemed Italian […]

Aug, 21

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