Derek Winnert

42nd Street ***** (1933, Warner Baxter, Ruby Keeler, Bebe Daniels, George Brent, Una Merkel, Guy Kibbee, Dick Powell, Ginger Rogers) – Classic Movie Review 3057

Director Lloyd Bacon’s 1933 movie virtually created, certainly established for all time the clichés of the backstage musical genre. Despite its great, venerable age, 42nd Street is still faster, funnier and brighter – and simply just […]

Nov, 14 · in Reviews

Four Rooms * (1995, Tim Roth, Bruce Willis, Quentin Tarantino, Jennifer Beals, Paul Calderon, Salma Hayek, Madonna, Antonio Banderas, Marisa Tomei) – Classic Movie Review 3056

Tim Roth plays an unlikely bellboy visiting the title’s four hotel rooms in this lacklustre 1995 portmanteau movie comedy, showing clearly why these kinds of films are out of fashion. Even good directors, it seems, […]

Nov, 14 · in Reviews

Hallam Foe **** (2007, Jamie Bell, Sophia Myles, Claire Forlani, Ciarán Hinds, Maurice Roëves) – Classic Movie Review 3055

Co-writer/director David Mackenzie’s 2007 movie stars Jamie Bell as weird 17-year-old Hallam Foe, who can’t stop missing his mother after her overdose of sleeping pills and suicide drowning in a lake near their house in Edinburgh. […]

Nov, 13

Rise of the Footsoldier Part II **½ (2015, Ricci Harnett, Luke Mably) – Movie Review

In the sequel to the 2007 hit Rise of the Footsoldier, the continuing story of the life of English underworld figure Carlton Leach proves a bit of a tour de force for writer-director star Ricci […]

Nov, 13

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

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

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

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