Derek Winnert

Sands of Iwo Jima **** (1949, John Wayne, John Agar, Adele Mara, Forrest Tucker, Arthur Franz, Richard Jaeckel, Wally Cassel, Richard Webb, Julie Bishop) – Classic Movie Review 3183

Director Allan Dwan’s 1949 war movie Sands of Iwo Jima is a very free dramatisation of the World War Two Battle of Iwo Jima, in which more than 5,000 Americans lost their lives for a small […]

Dec, 23 · in Reviews

The Conformist [Il Conformista] ***** (1970, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Dominique Sanda, Stefania Sandrelli, Pierre Clémenti) – Classic Movie Review 3182

Writer-director Bernardo Bertolucci’s provocative, impressive, unsettling 1970 psychological thriller The Conformist [Il Conformista] has style to spare. It stars an ideally cast Jean-Louis Trintignant as Marcello Clerici, a weak-willed 1930s rich Italian who embraces taking a path […]

Dec, 23 · in Reviews

Alligator *** (1980, Robert Forster, Dean Jagger, Henry Silva, Robin Riker, Michael V Gazzo) – Classic Movie Review 3181

Written by John Sayles, director Lewis Teague’s 1980 horror thriller Alligator is good fun and quite scary as a tongue-in-cheek monster movie, even if it is annoyingly patchy and scrappily made. It’s a send-up based […]

Dec, 23

Quartet **** (1948, Dirk Bogarde, Honor Blackman, Susan Shaw, Basil Radford, Naunton Wayne, Jack Watling, Mai Zetterling, Nora Swinburne, Cecil Parker, George Cole) – Classic Movie Review 3180

In this 1948 British black and white compendium movie, Quartet, esteemed author W Somerset Maugham plays host and himself introduces each of four entertaining, superbly cast short films of his own stories, with four different […]

Dec, 22

Quartet **** (1981, Alan Bates, Maggie Smith, Isabelle Adjani, Anthony Higgins, Pierre Clémenti, Suzanne Flon, Sheila Gish) – Classic Movie Review 3,179

James Ivory’s beautifully crafted 1981 drama film Quartet stars Alan Bates, Maggie Smith, Isabelle Adjani and Anthony Higgins, who give notable displays of intense acting in this sleek and involving version of Jean Rhys’s autobiographical […]

Dec, 22

A Passage to India **** (1984, Judy Davis, Victor Banerjee, Peggy Ashcroft, Alec Guinness, James Fox, Nigel Havers, Richard Wilson) – Classic Movie Review 3178

After a 14-year gap, writer-director David Lean made a spectacular comeback in 1984 with his accomplished and satisfying adaptation of the E M Forster classic novel about the eye-opening first visit to India of a […]

Dec, 21

The Fall of the Krays ***½ (2015, Simon Cotton, Kevin Leslie, James Weber Brown, Josh Myers) – Movie Review

Taut, tense and well-made, director Zackary Adler’s welcome and essential sequel to his The Rise of the Krays is a lean, mean, spare, non-glamourised London crime thriller. It’s grittier and less of a show than Legend (2015). […]

Dec, 21

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