Derek Winnert

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America America **** (1963 Stathis Giallelis, Frank Wolff, Elena Karam) – Classic Movie Review 9401

Elia Kazan was Oscar-nominated as writer, producer (Best Picture) and director for this uplifting, if seemingly endless chunk of his own family biography about a young Anatolian Greek, living in the oppressions of Turkey more […]

Feb, 19

Emma. *** (2020, Anya Taylor-Joy, Johnny Flynn, Mia Goth, Josh O’Connor, Callum Turner, Bill Nighy, Miranda Hart, Tanya Reynolds) – Movie Review 

Director Autumn de Wilde’s period romantic comedy drama Emma. is based on the beloved classic novel by Jane Austen. The ultra-stylish novel has everything: wit, wisdom, great characters, great dialogue, great plotting, true romance, witty […]

Feb, 18

Rock ‘n’ Roll High School *** (1979, P J Soles, Vincent Van Patten, Clint Howard) – Classic Movie Review 9358

It’s pretty, teenage delinquent, Ramones fan Riff Randell (P J Soles) versus the strict, non-musical, rock ‘n’ roll-hating new Vince Lombardi high school principal Miss Togar (Mary Woronov), in director Allan Arkush’s Roger Corman-produced 1979 […]

Feb, 08

The Return of Don Camillo [Il ritorno di Don Camillo] *** (1953, Fernandel, Gino Cervi, Édouard Delmont, Paolo Stoppa, Arturo Bragaglia) – Classic Movie Review 9356

Director Julien Duvivier’s 1953 French-Italian comedy film The Return of Don Camillo [Il ritorno di Don Camillo] [Le retour de Don Camillo] brings back Fernandel and Gino Cervi happily to the screen. Following the 1952 […]

Feb, 07

Don Camillo’s Last Round *** (1955, Fernandel, Gino Cervi, Claude Sylvain) – Classic Movie Review 9355

The great, droll French comic Fernandel again greatly amuses as the eccentric small-village Italian Roman Catholic priest Don Camillo, who this time tries to prevent his friendly opponent, Giuseppe ‘Peppone’ Bottazzi (Gino Cervi), the little […]

Feb, 07

The Littlest Rebel *** (1935, Shirley Temple, John Boles, Jack Holt, Karen Morley, Bill Robinson, Guinn Williams) – Classic Movie Review 9354

For director David Butler’s 1935 family comedy drama The Littlest Rebel, 20th Century Fox put their feisty little seven-year-old star Shirley Temple in another opulent American Civil War melodrama (after The Little Colonel rang the […]

Feb, 07

The Handmaid’s Tale ** (1990, Natasha Richardson, Faye Dunaway, Aidan Quinn) – Classic Movie Review 9352

Director Volker Schlöndorff’s 1990 The Handmaid’s Tale stars Natasha Richardson as Kate, who, in a decaying future America, is trained as a handmaiden to bear children for upper-class women rendered infertile by pollution. Scriptwriter Harold […]

Feb, 06

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