Derek Winnert

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The Wild Party ** (1975, James Coco, Raquel Welch, Perry King) – Classic Movie Review 12,038

James Ivory’s 1975 film The Wild Party is an interesting attempt to re-create the Fatty Arbuckle movie-scandal case. James Coco holds the attention as the 1920s comic Jolly Grimm, who holds a party that gets […]

Apr, 01

Hands Over the City [Le mani sulla città] **** (1963, Rod Steiger, Salvo Randone, Guido Alberti) – Classic Movie Review 11,072

Rod Steiger goes to Italy like so many other American actors in search of work and finds a prestige film by top director Francesco Rosi for the award-winning 1963  political and social drama film Hands […]

Apr, 04

Scandal **** (1989, John Hurt, Joanne Whalley, Bridget Fonda, Ian McKellen, Leslie Phillips, Britt Ekland, Daniel Massey) – Classic Movie Review 10,821

The 1989 drama Scandal is a major British film about the 1963 Profumo sex, spies and politics scandal, with superb performances by John Hurt as bon-viveur osteopath Dr Stephen Ward and Joanne Whalley as exotic […]

Jan, 22

Return to Peyton Place *** (1961, Carol Lynley, Jeff Chandler, Eleanor Parker, Mary Astor) – Classic Movie Review 8929

Director José Ferrer’s attractively campy 1961 romantic drama follow-up Return to Peyton Place begins where Peyton Place left off. Eleanor Parker (as Connie Rossi) and Mary Astor (as a selfish mother, Mrs Roberta Carter) enliven […]

Sep, 22

Mayerling *** (1968, Omar Sharif, Catherine Deneuve, James Mason, Ava Gardner, James Robertson Justice, Genevieve Page) – Classic Movie Review 8477

Director Terence Young’s 1968 Mayerling is the third movie version (after 1936’s Mayerling and 1940’s Sarajevo) of the story from Claude Anet’s novel about the 19th-century misalliance of the Austrian Crown Prince, Archduke Rudolf. Mayerling […]

May, 17

Notes on a Scandal *** (2006, Judi Dench, Cate Blanchett, Andrew Simpson, Michael Maloney, Tom Georgeson, Shaun Parkes, Phil Davis, Bill Nighy, Juno Temple) – Classic Movie Review 7897

Director Richard Eyre’s 2006 lesbian drama Notes on a Scandal was nominated for four Oscars. The smart screenplay is by Patrick Marber, based on the novel by Zoë Heller. Judi Dench is extremely effective cast against […]

Dec, 09

Disobedience **** (2017, Rachel Weisz, Rachel McAdams, Alessandro Nivola) – Movie Review

Co-writer/ director Sebastián Lelio’s 2017 lesbian romantic and religious drama Disobedience is engrossing and moving. It is intelligent and sympathetic. It is very well and quite subtly written by Sebastián Lelio and Rebecca Lenkiewicz, based on the […]

Nov, 28

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