Derek Winnert

Caro Diario [Dear Diary] **** (1993, Nanni Moretti, Renato Carpentieri) – Classic Movie Review 3054

Writer-director Nanni Moretti directs himself playing himself in his witty 1993 ironically wry look at life in three chapters like diary entries with personal stories and reflections. (1) Moretti travels around Rome on his Vespa, admiring […]

Nov, 13 · in Reviews

Mia Madre **** (2015, Margherita Buy, John Turturro, Giulia Lazzarini, Nanni Moretti) – Movie Review

Co-writer/director Nanni Moretti combines a devastating heartbreaker with comedy, a difficult trick to pull off, but he does so commandingly and seemingly effortlessly. Margherita Buy tugs at the heart strings as Margherita, a film director […]

Nov, 12 · in Reviews

The Son’s Room [Il Stanzo di Figlio] ***** (2001, Nanni Moretti, Laura Morante, Jasmine Trinca, Giuseppe Sanfelice) – Classic Movie Review 3053

Co-writer/director Nanni Moretti’s 2001 Cannes Palme D’Or winner Il Stanzo di Figlio is a devastating heartbreaker. Nanni Moretti, Laura Morante and Jasmine Trinca star as a psychoanalyst, his wife and his daughter who suffer through profound emotional trauma […]

Nov, 12

The Son of the Sheik ***** (1926, Rudolph Valentino, Vilma Bánky, George Fawcett, Montagu Love, Karl Dane, Agnes Ayres) – Classic Movie Review 3052

Director George Fitzmaurice’s delightful 1926 silent classic provided Rudolph Valentino with what tragically turned out to be his final film role. Released on 5 September 1926 shortly after his death from a ruptured gastric ulcer […]

Nov, 12

The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse ***** (1921, Rudolph Valentino, Alice Terry, Pomeroy Cannon, Josef Swickard, Nigel De Brulier, Alan Hale Sr, Jean Hersholt, Wallace Beery) – Classic Movie Review 3,051

UK cinema chain Odeon said it is closing five cinemas on 5 June 2023: Magdalen Street, Oxford; Rigby Road, Blackpool; Weston-super-mare; Ayr; and Banbury. Built by Frank Matcham, the 1,000-seat Oxford Odeon opened with The […]

Nov, 12

Tangerine *** (2015, Kitana Kiki Rodriguez, Mya Taylor, Karren Karagulian, Arsen Grigoryan, Clu Gulager) – Movie Review

Kitana Kiki Rodriguez stars as Sin-Dee, a transgender prostitute just out of jail, who finds out from her best friend Alexandra (Mya Taylor) that her pimp boyfriend has been unfaithful. So Sin-Dee tears through Tinseltown on […]

Nov, 11

The Hallow ** (2015, Joseph Mawle, Bojana Novakovic, Michael McElhatton, Stuart Graham, Gary Lydon) – Movie Review

A London-based conservationist tree surgeon called Adam Hitchens (Joseph Mawle from Game of Thrones) is sent to Ireland to survey an area of forest believed to be hallowed ground by the superstitious local folk. Adam and […]

Nov, 11

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