Derek Winnert

Conversation Piece [Gruppo di Famiglia in un Interno] **** (1974, Burt Lancaster, Helmut Berger, Silvana Mangano) – Classic Movie Review 3190

Luchino Visconti’s 1974 penultimate film Conversation Piece is a stately, elegant and affecting fable, reuniting him with his longtime companion Helmut Berger and Burt Lancaster.  Co-writer/director Luchino Visconti’s penultimate conversation piece movie from 1974 is […]

Dec, 28 · in Reviews

The Conversation ***** (1974, Gene Hackman, John Cazale, Allen Garfield, Frederic Forrest, Robert Duvall, Cindy Williams, Teri Garr, Harrison Ford) – Classic Movie Review 3,189

Francis Coppola’s tense and suspenseful 1974 thriller film The Conversation won the Cannes Film Festival Palme d’Or. It’s a tour-de-force for director Coppola and star Gene Hackman as a paranoid surveillance expert.  Francis Ford Coppola’s […]

Dec, 28 · in Reviews

Bound for Glory **** (1976, David Carradine, Ronny Cox, Melinda Dillon, Gail Strickland, John Lehne, Randy Quaid, M Emmet Walsh) – Classic Movie Review 3188

Director Hal Ashby’s double Oscar-winning 1976 biopic of early life of Woody Guthrie provides a great star showcase for David Carradine who stars as the legendary vagabond folk singer. Carradine gives an impressive account of Woody Guthrie, […]

Dec, 28

The Flim-Flam Man [One Born Every Minute] ***½ (1967, George C Scott, Michael Sarrazin, Sue Lyon, Harry Morgan, Jack Albertson, Alice Ghostley, Albert Salmi, Slim Pickens) – Classic Movie Review 3,187

The unlikely pair of George C Scott and Michael Sarrazin team up to star in the folksy 1967 US small-town comedy film The Flim-Flam Man as an ageing conman and a young army deserter who […]

Dec, 27

Born Free *** (1965, Bill Travers, Virginia McKenna, Geoffrey Keen) – Classic Movie Review 3186

Director James Hill’s heart-warming 1965 British animal adventure movie scooped composer John Barry a pair of Oscars for Best Original Music Score and his title Best Original Song Born Free (shared with Don Black for […]

Dec, 24

The Sand Pebbles *** (1966, Steve McQueen, Richard Attenborough, Candice Bergen, Richard Crenna) – Classic Movie Review 3185

In 1926, the gunboat USS San Pablo is patrolling the Yangtse River during the Chinese revolution and must rescue stranded missionaries at the China Light Mission. Producer-director Robert Wise’s adventure drama about American gunboat diplomacy in […]

Dec, 24

The Sandpiper * (1965, Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Eva Marie Saint, Charles Bronson) – Classic Movie Review 3184

Vincente Minnelli’s hypnotically absurd and risibly awful Richard Burton-Elizabeth Taylor romantic melodrama The Sandpiper (1965) was made at the height of their fame when they had the pick of scripts. But they picked this one! […]

Dec, 23

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