Derek Winnert

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The Strange Woman ***½ (1946, Hedy Lamarr, George Sanders, Louis Hayward, Gene Lockhart, Hillary Brooke) – Classic Movie Review 4377

Hedy Lamarr caught flu three days after filming started on her own production of The Strange Woman (1946) and the production had to be shut down for three weeks.  Director Edgar G Ulmer’s 1946 American […]

Sep, 18

Le Corbeau [The Raven] **** (1943, Pierre Fresnay, Ginette Leclerc, Micheline Francey) – Classic Movie Review 2357

Co-writer/director Henri-Georges Clouzot’s 1943 polished, sinister and stylish French mystery thriller concerns a mysterious poison-pen writer who is threatening a small French provincial town called St Robin. The dark and subversive screenplay is based on […]

Apr, 04

Beautiful Girls *** (1996, Matt Dillon, Timothy Hutton, Noah Emmerich) – Classic Movie Review 1671

  Director Ted Demme’s 1996 comedy drama stars Timothy Hutton as Manhattan-based jazz pianist Willie Conway, who is hesitating over his wedding to long-time girlfriend, lawyer Tracy Stover (Annabeth Gish). He returns back to his small home […]

Sep, 13

Dogville **** (2003, Nicole Kidman, Paul Bettany) – Classic Movie Review 1496

Director Lars von Trier’s challenging, not to say intimidating, 2003 epic is a minimalist parable playing out on a stage-like set. It stars Nicole Kidman, who gives a tour de force in one of her […]

Jul, 30

The Village *** (2005, Bryce Dallas Howard, Joaquin Phoenix, William Hurt, Adrien Brody, Michael Pitt, Sigourney Weaver, Judy Greer, Brendan Gleeson, Celia Weston, Jesse Eisenberg) – Classic Movie Review 918

Once upon a time there was a small, quite, isolated countryside Pennsylvania village in a valley surrounded by an impenetrable forest where there be monsters. Or at least so the locals believe. They also believe that […]

Mar, 16

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