Derek Winnert

Farewell My Concubine [Ba wang bie ji] ***** (1993, Leslie Cheung, Zhang Fengyi, Gong Li) – Classic Movie Review 6386

Director Chen Kaige’s magnificent 1993 epic romantic music drama is the co-winner of the 1993 Palme d’Or and winner of the International Critics’ FIPRESCI Prize at the Cannes Film Festival. It follows the changing fortunes and […]

Dec, 10 · in Reviews

Menashe **** (2017, Menashe Lustig, Ruben Niborski, Yoel Falkowitz, Meyer Schwartz) – Movie Review

Co-writer/ director Joshua Z Weinstein’s sweet, appealing and tenderly emotional drama stars Menashe Lustig as the titular widower Menashe, who battles for custody of his son in Brooklyn’s ultra-orthodox Hasidic Jewish community. After his wife Leah died […]

Dec, 10 · in Reviews

The Fall of the House of Usher [Revenge in the House of Usher] * (1983, Howard Vernon, Antonio Mayans, Lina Romay, Fata Morgana, Daniel White) – Classic Movie Review 6385

Jesús Franco [Jess Franco] acts as writer/ producer/ director/ musician and cameraman in his desperately cheap and muddled, but cheerful and good-looking 1983 Spanish film version of the Edgar Allan Poe story, originally called El Hundimiento […]

Dec, 10

The Fall of the Roman Empire **** (1964, Alec Guinness, Sophia Loren, Stephen Boyd, James Mason, Christopher Plummer, Omar Sharif, Mel Ferrer, Anthony Quayle, John Ireland) – Classic Movie Review 6384

Director Anthony Mann’s vast 1964 Roman epic The Fall of the Roman Empire is, overall, hugely impressive, though it is a hit and miss affair in the casting department, but the hits include James Mason […]

Dec, 10

Fallen **** (1998, Denzel Washington, John Goodman, Donald Sutherland, Embeth Davidtz, James Gandolfini) – Classic Movie Review 6383

Denzel Washington is in his element as homicide detective John Hobbes, who witnesses the execution of serial killer Edgar Reese (Elias Koteas). But soon the killings start again in Reese’s style… Director Gregory Hoblit’s excellent […]

Dec, 10

Around the Bend *** (2004, Christopher Walken, Josh Lucas, Michael Caine, Glenne Headly) – Classic Movie Review 5578

Writer/ director Jordan Roberts’s humorous 2004 road movie is inspired by the relationship between Roberts and the absentee, substance-using father he barely knew, Robert Stone Jordan, latterly an indie film director/producer. It stars Christopher Walken as Turner Lair, Michael Caine as his father, […]

Dec, 10

HMS Defiant [Damn the Defiant!] **** (1962, Alec Guinness, Dirk Bogarde, Anthony Quayle, Tom Bell, Nigel Stock, Maurice Denham) – Classic Movie Review 6,382

Alec Guinness and Dirk Bogarde star in the stirring 1962 Napoleonic Wars sea saga film HMS Defiant [Damn the Defiant!] about the on-board clash on the British vessel in 1797. Alec Guinness and Dirk Bogarde […]

Dec, 10

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