Derek Winnert

The Russians Are Coming! The Russians Are Coming! **** (1966, Carl Reiner, Eva Marie Saint, Alan Arkin, John Phillip Law) – Classic Movie Review 5,722

Norman Jewison’s hilarious, frenzied 1966 satirical American Cold War comedy film The Russians Are Coming! The Russians Are Coming! follows the panic and chaos after a Soviet submarine is grounded off a small New England […]

Jul, 06 · in Uncategorized

The Body ** (2001, Antonio Banderas, Olivia Williams, John Shrapnel, Derek Jacobi, Jason Flemyng, John Wood) – Classic Movie Review 5721

Antonio Banderas stars as Roman Catholic priest Father Matt Gutierrez, who is sent to investigate when Christ’s crucified remains are apparently discovered in a Jerusalem cave, in writer-director Jonas McCord’s moderately exciting and compelling 2001 […]

Jul, 06 · in Uncategorized

Man of Aran **** (1934, Colman ‘Tiger’ King, Maggie Dirrane, Michael Dirrane) – Classic Movie Review 5720

Writer/ cinematographer/ director Robert J Flaherty’s notable 1934 documentary feature film of life on the Isle of Aran in North Ayrshire features the real fishermen and crofter people, and shows their various struggles to live. (By […]

Jul, 06

Boccaccio 70 *** (1962, Sophia Loren, Romy Schneider, Anita Ekberg, Romolo Valli, Tomas Milian, Paola Stoppa) – Classic Movie Review 5719

In the glorious heyday of Italian cinema, the three Italian big guns – Vittorio De Sica, Luchino Visconti and Federico Fellini – are assembled in 1962 to direct these interesting and enjoyable, typically quirky Sixties-style […]

Jul, 06

Le Notti Bianche [White Nights] **** (1957, Maria Schell, Marcello Mastroianni, Jean Marais) – Classic Movie Review 5,718

Maria Schell, Marcello Mastroianni and Jean Marais star in Luchino Visconti’s 1957 Italian romantic drama film White Nights, based on Fyodor Dostoevsky’s short story. Co-writer/ director Luchino Visconti adapts the 1848 love triangle short story by Fyodor Dostoevsky […]

Jul, 06

The Stranger [Lo Straniero] **** (1967, Marcello Mastroianni, Anna Karina, Bernard Blier, Georges Wilson, Bruno Cremer) – Classic Movie Review 5,717

Luchino Visconti’s 1967 film adaptation of the 1942 Albert Camus classic novel L’Étranger [The Outsider] is flawed but compelling. Marcello Mastroianni plays a Frenchman living in Algiers, who for no apparent reason shoots dead a young […]

Jul, 06

La Terra Trema **** (1948, Antonio Arcidiacono, voices of Luchino Visconti, Antonio Pietrangeli) – Classic Movie Review 5716

Director Luchino Visconti’s documentary-style 1948 neo-realist masterpiece is centred on the day-to-day working and living existence of a fisherman, ‘Ntoni Valastro (Antonio Arcidiacono), his family and the people from Aci Trezza, a small Sicilian village near Catania. It is […]

Jul, 05

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