Derek Winnert

The Decameron **** (1970, Franco Citti, Ninetto Davoli, Angela Luce, Silvana Mangano, Vincenzo Amato, Guido Alberti, Monique van Vooren) – Classic Movie Review 3201

Director Pier Paolo Pasolini kicks off his Trilogy of Life movies with this bawdy and entertaining 1970 film consisting of a series of eight tales from Italian author Giovanni Boccaccio’s classic 14th century book collection […]

Dec, 31 · in Reviews

The Canterbury Tales [I Racconti di Canterbury] **** (1972, Ninetto Davoli, Franco Citti, Laura Betti, Hugh Griffith, Tom Baker, Jenny Runacre, Michael Balfour) – Classic Movie Review 3200)

For his 1972 third Trilogy of Life movie, The Canterbury Tales [I Racconti di Canterbury], Italian writer-director Pier Paolo Pasolini freely tackles the literary masterpiece of Geoffrey Chaucer and makes the revered English material his […]

Dec, 30 · in Reviews

Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom *** (1975, Paolo Bonacelli, Giorgio Cataldi, Umberto Paolo Quintavalle, Franco Merli, Sergio Fascetti) – Classic Movie Review 3199

Director Pier Paolo Pasolini’s infamous, highly controversial, problematic final film, based on the Marquis de Sade’s novel The 120 Days of Sodom, was made shortly before his murder on 2 November 1975, aged 53, and released […]

Dec, 30

Sahara ** (2005, Matthew McConaughey, Penélope Cruz, Steve Zahn, Lambert Wilson, William H Macy, Delroy Lindo, Rainn Wilson) – Classic Movie Review 3198

Propelled by two far-fetched plotlines (the warship, the plague), director Breck Eisner’s 2005 old-style high-adventure comedy action movie gets sillier by the minute. But the Moroccan-filmed scenery is breathtaking as filmed by cinematographer Seamus McGarvey […]

Dec, 30

Sahara **** (1943, Humphrey Bogart, Bruce Bennett, Dan Duryea, Richard Nugent, Louis Mercier, Lloyd Bridges, Rex Ingram, J Carrol Naish) – Classic Movie Review 3197

Humphrey Bogart stars in director Zoltan Korda’s sterling 1943 wartime thriller Sahara as an American tank commander called Sergeant Joe Gunn in Libya during the Western Desert Campaign of World War Two. Separated from their […]

Dec, 30

Sacco & Vanzetti ****½ (1971, Gian Maria Volontè, Riccardo Cucciolla, Cyril Cusack, Geoffrey Keen, Milo O’Shea) – Classic Movie Review 3196

Director Giuliano Montaldo’s splendidly acted, provocative, sterling 1971 biopic of 1920s Italian-born US immigrant anarchists Nicola Sacco (Riccardo Cucciolla) and Bartolomeo Vanzetti (Gian Maria Volonté), who are tired on trumped-up charges of robbery and murder […]

Dec, 30

Children of the Damned *** (1964, Ian Hendry, Alan Badel, Barbara Ferris, Alfred Burke, Sheila Allen, Patrick Wymark, Ralph Michael) – Classic Movie Review 3195

Director Anton M Leader’s 1964 further Sixties adaptation of John Wyndham’s classic sci-fi novel The Midwich Cuckoos is a less successful, but still intriguing and thoughtful, thematic sequel follow-up to Village of the Damned (1960). […]

Dec, 29

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