Derek Winnert

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Orchestra Rehearsal [Prova d’orchestra] *** (1978, Balduin Baas, Clara Colosimo, Elizabeth Labi) – Classic Movie Review 7376

Federico Fellini’s intriguing, teasing and provocative 1978 Italian satirical film Orchestra Rehearsal [Prova d’orchestra] follows the story of an Italian orchestra as the members assemble for a rehearsal in a run-down auditorium converted from an ancient chapel now […]

Jul, 30

The Birth of a Nation *** (2016, Nate Parker, Armie Hammer, Penelope Ann Miller, Jackie Earle Haley) – Movie Review

Writer-director Nate Parker’s 2016 biographical drama tells the true story of Nat Turner, born into slavery, but who becomes literate and a preacher in the antebellum American South of Virginia in 1831. Nat preaches to his fellow slaves, encouraging them […]

Oct, 11

Kanal ***** (1957, Teresa Izewska, Tadeusz Janczar, Wienczyslaw Glinski, Emil Kariewicz) – Classic Movie Review 4471

In Andrzej Wajda’s forceful 1957 Polish film Kanal, which is based on an actual incident, resistance fighter patriots use Warsaw’s sewer system (‘kanal’) to try to escape German soldiers in 1944, during the Warsaw Uprising […]

Oct, 10

The Hunger Games: Catching Fire *** (2013, Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson, Liam Hemsworth) – Movie Review

The Hunger Games: Catching Fire is more or less just a rerun of the first one in the series, 2012’s The Hunger Games, with a cliffhanging ending. The story is almost exactly the same as […]

Nov, 12

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