Derek Winnert

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The Assassin [L’Assassino] *** (1961, Marcello Mastroianni, Micheline Presle, Cristina Gaioni, Salvo Randone, Andrea Checci) – Classic Movie Review 8609

Director Elio Petri’s 1961 Italian black and white crime thriller The Assassin [L’Assassino] [The Ladykiller of Rome] stars Marcello Mastroianni as rich but dodgy antiques dealer Alfredo Martelli, who is arrested and accused of murdering […]

Jun, 18

Sunset [Napszállta] **** (2018, Juli Jakab, Vlad Ivanov, Tom Pilath, Susanne Wuest, Evelin Dobos) – Movie Review

Writer-director László Nemes’s Sunset [Napszállta] is the most challenging film of the 2018 London Film Festival – challenging to understand, challenging to stay awake, challenging to stay the course, oh and did I say challenging to understand? Juli […]

Oct, 16

Thunder Road **** (2018, Jim Cummings, Kendal Farr, Nican Robinson) – Movie Review

Writer-director Jim Cummings also stars brilliantly in the clever, charming and heartfelt Thunder Road (2018) as police officer Jim Arnaud, who goes into a personal meltdown after his divorce and the death of his mother, leading to […]

Oct, 14

Lady Macbeth **** (2016, Florence Pugh, Christopher Fairbank, Cosmo Jarvis) – Movie Review

Director William Oldroyd’s film adaptation of Russian author Nikolai Leskov’s novella Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk is a riveting, tough-toned and chilling nail-biter. Giving it her all and a bit more, Florence Pugh is memorable […]

Apr, 25

La Ronde ***** (1950, Anton Walbrook, Simone Signoret, Serge Reggiani, Simone Simon, Daniel Gélin, Danielle Darrieux, Fernand Gravey) – Classic Movie Review 4305

Co-writer/ director Max Ophüls’s 1950 film masterwork is a brilliantly plush, atmospheric and marvellously performed adaptation of the classic Arthur Schnitzler play. It is set in a hauntingly atmospheric Vienna in 1900, and is told […]

Sep, 05

Nostalgia [Nostalghia] **** (1983, Oleg Yankovsky, Domiziana Giordano, Erland Josephson) – Classic Movie Review 4211

Director Andrei Tarkovsky’s haunting and elusive 1983 Soviet-Italian experimental film stars Oleg Yankovsky, Domiziana Giordano and Erland Josephson. Working in Italy in his first film outside Russia, with most of the dialogue in Italian, Tarkovsky co-writes the […]

Aug, 21

Une Femme Mariée [A Married Woman] **** (1964, Macha Méril, Bernard Noël, Philippe Leroy) – Classic Movie Review 4200

Writer-director Jean-Luc Godard amusingly explores the effects of the media on women’s lives in his involving and erotic depiction of cool married woman Charlotte (Macha Méril)’s love affair with an actor, Robert (Bernard Noël), though […]

Aug, 19

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