Derek Winnert

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The Heartbreak Kid **** (1972, Charles Grodin, Cybill Shepherd, Jeannie Berlin. Eddie Albert) – Classic Movie Review 7220

Director Elaine May’s 1972 The Heartbreak Kid stars Charles Grodin as a New York Jewish kid named Lenny who is honeymooning in Miami with his new bride Lila (Jeannie Berlin) when he gets stung by […]

Jun, 25

Shirley Valentine **** (1989, Pauline Collins, Tom Conti, Alison Steadman, Julia McKenzie, Joanna Lumley, Sylvia Syms, Bernard Hill) – Classic Movie Review 6556

Producer-director Lewis Gilbert follows his 1983 hit Educating Rita with another hit version of a theatre play by Willy Russell, with another actress on Oscar nominated form and Russell again providing his own screenplay (as […]

Jan, 14

Dodsworth **** (1936, Walter Huston, Mary Astor, Ruth Chatterton, David Niven, Paul Lukas) – Classic Movie Review 6428

Walter Huston, Mary Astor, Ruth Chatterton, David Niven and Paul Lukas star in director William Wyler’s heartwarming, life-affirming 1936 film from producer Samuel Goldwyn. Production designer Richard Day won an Oscar for Best Art Direction, and […]

Dec, 19

Burnt Offerings ** (1976, Karen Black, Oliver Reed, Bette Davis, Burgess Meredith Lee H Montgomery, Eileen Heckart) – Classic Movie Review 6038

The 1976 American mystery horror film Burnt Offerings is co-written and directed by Dan Curtis, and stars Karen Black, Oliver Reed, Bette Davis, Lee H Montgomery, Eileen Heckart and Burgess Meredith, as yet another American family moves into yet another […]

Sep, 23

Desire **** (1936, Marlene Dietrich, Gary Cooper, John Halliday, William Frawley, Akim Tamiroff, Alan Mowbray) – Classic Movie Review 5409

‘LOVE WAS HER PRECIOUS LOOT!’ Marlene Dietrich stars in the 1936 American film Desire as cultivated sultry European gem thief Madeleine de Beaupré and she is paired with Gary Cooper as simple, down-home American automobile […]

May, 07

Race with the Devil *** (1975, Peter Fonda, Warren Oates, Loretta Swit, Lara Parker) – Classic Movie Review 5338

A vacation collapses amid blood, rattlesnakes and much talk of runes in director Jack Starrett’s devillishly bad, racily handled 1975 junk movie favourite, a Seventies trash classic. It tracks holiday-makers Roger and Frank (Peter Fonda […]

Apr, 23

La Dentellière [The Lacemaker] **** (1977, Isabelle Huppert, Yves Beneyton, Florence Giorgetti) – Classic Movie Review 5118

Co-writer/ director Claude Goretta’s penetrating 1977 film character study stars Isabelle Huppert as a reserved apprentice teenage Paris hairdresser called Pomme who goes with her friend Marylène (Florence Giorgetti) to Cabourg in Normandy for a […]

Mar, 08

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