Derek Winnert

Fanny and Alexander [Fanny och Alexander] ***** (1982, Bertil Guve, Pernilla Allwin, Ewa Fröling, Kristina Adolphson, Allan Edwall) – Classic Movie Review 3934

Writer-director director Ingmar Bergman (1918–2007) retired from cinema film-making after this stupendous, four Oscar-winning 1982 swansong to the movies. It is a beautiful, endlessly rewarding, masterly and sumptuous family saga, full of telling references to both his […]

Jun, 28 · in Uncategorized

Sunshine State **½ (2002, Angela Bassett, Edie Falco, Alex Lewis, Timothy Hutton, James McDaniel, Jane Alexander, Bill Cobbs, Ralph Waite, Miguel Ferrer, Mary Steenburgen) – Classic Movie Review 3942

Angela Bassett and Edie Falco star as actress Desiree Perry and motel/café owner Marly Temple, two women who join forces to battle greedy Florida real estate developers, in writer-director John Sayles’s well-acted and intriguing but complicated, overlong […]

Jun, 28 · in Uncategorized

The Sunshine Boys ** (1996, Woody Allen, Peter Falk, Michael McKean, Whoopi Goldberg) – Classic Movie Review 3931

In 1996 we didn’t actually need a new version of Neil Simon’s perennial hit play about feuding vaudeville partners when there is already the nigh-on ideal 1975 film The Sunshine Boys with George Burns and […]

Jun, 28

The Sunshine Boys **** (1975, Walter Matthau, George Burns, Richard Benjamin) – Classic Movie Review 3930

Walter Matthau and George Burns star in director Herbert Ross’s very lively and amusing 1975 film version of Neil Simon’s play about two aged, feuding vaudeville comics, former partners before they fell out. Jack Benny […]

Jun, 28

Cries & Whispers [Viskningar och rop] ***** (1972, Bibi Andersson, Ingrid Thulin, Liv Ullmann, Kari Sylwan) – Classic Movie Review 3933

Producer-writer-director Ingmar Bergman’s haunting and shattering 1972 Swedish movie represents the quintessence of Bergman’s art, with three of his best, most famous players all at their peak, while Kari Sylwan is equally memorable. And there is […]

Jun, 27

Eraser **½ (1996, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Vanessa Williams, James Caan, James Coburn, Robert Pastorelli, John Cromwell, Danny Nucci, Andy Romano) – Classic Movie Review 3935

Director Chuck Russell’s acceptable 1996 action thriller stars Arnold Schwarzenegger as US Marshal John ‘The Eraser’ Kruger, who is sent to protect Dr Lee Cullen (Vanessa Williams), an employee of a maker of secret military […]

Jun, 27

A Woman Rebels *** (1936, Katharine Hepburn, Herbert Marshall, Donald Crisp, Elizabeth Allan) – Classic Movie Review 3,937

RKO’s intriguing, meticulous 1936 soap opera film A Woman Rebels is spurred by a typically spirited, charming performance by Katharine Hepburn as a rebellious Victorian English woman who flouts convention by having a child out […]

Jun, 27

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