Derek Winnert

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The Agony and the Ecstasy ** (1965, Charlton Heston, Rex Harrison, Diane Cilento, Harry Andrews, Alberto Lupo, Adolfo Celi) – Classic Movie Review 10,320

Carol Reed’s lavish, lovely looking 1965 biographical historical drama film The Agony and the Ecstasy is based on part of Irving Stone’s 1961 doorstopper novel, and stars Charlton Heston as Michelangelo and Rex Harrison as the […]

Sep, 18

Pope Joan [The Devil’s Imposter] *** (1972, Liv Ullmann, Trevor Howard, Lesley-Anne Down, Franco Nero, Olivia de Havilland, Maximilian Schell, André Morell, Nigel Havers, Keir Dullea) – Classic Movie Review 10,141

Aug, 07

The Pope Must Diet *** (1991, Robbie Coltrane, Adrian Edmondson, Paul Bartel, Herbert Lom, Alex Rocco) – Classic Movie Review 9852

When an imperfect, unqualified, unsuitable priest (Robbie Coltrane) is mistakenly elected Pope after a clerk mishears the name, he starts to uncover a web of corruption in the Vatican, in director Peter Richardson’s uneven but […]

Jun, 01

The Two Popes ***** (2019, Jonathan Pryce, Anthony Hopkins, Juan Minujín) – Movie Review

Director Fernando Meirelles’s fascinating true-life biographical comedy drama The Two Popes (2019) is one of the films of the year, with Jonathan Pryce and Anthony Hopkins both on scalding form as the liberal future Pope […]

Dec, 16

Lisztomania ** (1975, Roger Daltrey, Sara Kestelman, Paul Nicholas, Fiona Lewis, Ringo Starr, Rick Wakeman) – Classic Movie Review 5451

After The Music Lovers (1970) and Mahler (1973), here we go with still more music and sex from writer-director Ken Russell in 1975. So stand by for Russell’s smutty over-grown schoolboy representation of composer and pianist Franz Liszt […]

May, 14

Foul Play **** (1978, Goldie Hawn, Chevy Chase) – Classic Movie Review 3058

Writer-director Colin Higgins’s hilarious 1978 comedy thriller stars Goldie Hawn as a shy San Francisco librarian innocently embroiled in a plot to kill the Pope on a visit to the city and Chevy Chase as […]

Nov, 14

Brother Sun, Sister Moon [Fratello Sole, Sorella Luna] *** (1972, Graham Faulkner, Judi Bowker, Leigh Lawson, Alec Guinness, Peter Firth) – Classic Movie Review 2966

Director Franco Zeffirelli originally conceived his 1972 biopic of St Francis of Assisi (1181-1226) back in the mid-Sixties and it is that decade’s idealistic, love-and-peace, love-as-all-you-need flavour that is stamped all over this hippyish youth-slanted […]

Oct, 07

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