Derek Winnert

Dragonwyck **** (1946, Gene Tierney, Vincent Price, Glenn Langan, Walter Huston, Anne Revere, Spring Byington, Harry Morgan, Jessica Tandy) – Classic Movie Review 4466

‘Dangerously, she dared to love!’ Gene Tierney stars as beautiful Connecticut farm girl Miranda Wells, in the 1946 period mystery thriller film Dragonwyck.  ‘Dangerously, she dared to love!’ Gene Tierney stars as beautiful Connecticut farm girl […]

Oct, 08 · in Reviews

You Can Count on Me **** (2000, Laura Linney, Mark Ruffalo, Matthew Broderick, Rory Culkin, Jon Tenney, Gaby Hoffmann, Amy Ryan) – Classic Movie Review 4464

Writer-director Kenneth Lonergan’s 2000 film was nominated for two Academy Awards for Best Screenplay and Best Actress. It won the Sundance 2000 Grand Jury Prize and the Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award, the New York Film […]

Oct, 07 · in Reviews

Manchester by the Sea **** (2016, Casey Affleck, Michelle Williams, Kyle Chandler, Lucas Hedges, Gretchen Mol, Matthew Broderick, C J Wilson) – Movie Review

Casey Affleck is outstanding as Lee Chandler, a New England uncle who is legally supposed to take care of his 16-year-old nephew Patrick ‘Patti’ (Lucas Hedges) when the boy’s father (Kyle Chandler) dies suddenly and makes him guardian in […]

Oct, 07

Toni Erdmann **** (2016, Peter Simonischek, Sandra Hüller, Michael Wittenborn) – Movie Review

Peter Simonischek and Sandra Hüller are brilliantly funny in writer-director Maren Ade’s endlessly hilarious epic comedy about an embarrassing dad trying to reconnect with his workaholic businesswoman daughter. The retired German dad, Winfried Conradi, is a constant […]

Oct, 07

The Big Blue [Le Grand Bleu] ***½ (1988, Jean-Marc Barr, Jean Reno, Rosanna Arquette) – Classic Movie Review 4462

Jean-Marc Barr and Jean Reno star as two divers, rivals since childhood, who battle for supremacy of the deep. Director Luc Besson’s fascinating but under-written and overblown 1988 movie was a huge hit with the […]

Oct, 06

Broken Lullaby **** (1932, Lionel Barrymore, Nancy Carroll, Phillips Holmes, Louise Carter, Tom Douglas, ZaSu Pitts) – Classic Movie Review 4463

Director Ernst Lubitsch’s unique 1932 serious drama is based on Maurice Rostand’s play L’Homme Que J’ai Tué (The Man I Killed) about a French youth called Paul Renard (Phillips Holmes) who sets out to try to find […]

Oct, 06

Frantz **** (2016, Paula Beer, Pierre Niney, Ernst Stötzner, Marie Gruber, Anton von Lucke, Cyrielle Clair, Alice de Lencquesaing) – Movie Review

Writer-director François Ozon’s incredibly romantic, gorgeously bitter-sweet drama stars Paula Beer as young German woman Anna who is grieving the death of her fiancé Frantz in the fighting in World War One France. She lives in a German small town […]

Oct, 06

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