Derek Winnert

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Light in the Piazza **** (1962, Olivia de Havilland, Yvette Mimieux, George Hamilton, Rossano Brazzi, Barry Sullivan) – Classic Movie Review 6837

Director Guy Green’s tasteful and quite rousing 1962 British romantic drama Light in the Piazza is sweetly told, expertly made and neatly acted, and is notable for its extensive location shooting in Florence and Rome […]

Mar, 20

Inferno **½ (2016, Tom Hanks, Ben Foster, Felicity Jones, Irrfan Khan, Sidse Babett Knudsen) – Movie Review

After all his previous problems in The Da Vinci Code and Angels & Demons (2009), you’d think Robert Langdon (Tom Hanks) would be enjoying some well deserved peace and quiet, especially after all those dead priests […]

Oct, 14

Up at the Villa *** (2000, Kristin Scott Thomas, Sean Penn, Anne Bancroft) – Classic Movie Review 1709

Director Philip Haas’s beautiful-looking but shaky 2000 romantic drama stars Kristin Scott Thomas and Sean Penn. Scott Thomas plays Mary Panton, a holidaying English widow who faces a series of dramas and choices in 1938 Florence, […]

Sep, 24

A Room with a View ***** (1985, Maggie Smith, Helena Bonham Carter, Denholm Elliott, Julian Sands, Simon Callow, Judi Dench, Daniel Day-Lewis, Rupert Graves) – Classic Movie Review 169

James Ivory’s 1985 triple-Oscar-winning classic film A Room with a View formed the basis of Helena Bonham Carter’s long career and is the best thing that Julian Sands ever did. James Ivory’s 1985 triple-Oscar-winning classic […]

Aug, 17

Hannibal ***** (2001, Anthony Hopkins, Julianne Moore, Gary Oldman, Giancarlo Giannini, Ray Liotta) – Classic Movie Review 135

Ray Liotta is a splendidly sweaty villain as nasty FBI boss Paul Krendler, who makes the fatal mistake of being rude to Clarice, in the 2001 horror film Hannibal. ‘It’s distress that excites him.’ Thomas […]

Aug, 08

Tea with Mussolini **** (1999, Maggie Smith, Judi Dench, Joan Plowright, Cher, Lily Tomlin, Baird Wallace, Claudio Spadaro, Michael Williams) – Classic Movie Review 107

This splendid 1999 film is a lightly fictionalised version of Italian director Franco Zeffirelli’s true-life story, which starts in pre-World War Two Fascist Italy, when, as a boy, he is befriended by a group of redoubtable English ladies, […]

Jul, 30

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