Derek Winnert

Conquest [Marie Walewska] **** (1937, Greta Garbo, Charles Boyer, Reginald Owen, Alan Marshal, Henry Stephenson, Dame May Whitty) – Classic Movie Review 2921

Director Clarence Brown’s plush 1937 historical romantic drama stars Greta Garbo in a weepie love story about Countess Marie Walewska, the Polish mistress of Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte (Charles Boyer). She becomes Napoleon’s mistress at the urging of […]

Sep, 21 · in Reviews

Two-Faced Woman **** (1941, Greta Garbo, Melvyn Douglas, Constance Bennett, Ruth Gordon, Roland Young, Robert Sterling) – Classic Movie Review 2920

Director George Cukor directs Greta Garbo in a bitter-sweet occasion – her final film in 1941 – in which she plays a double role as twin sisters. MGM is evidently trying to capitalise on Garbo’s […]

Sep, 21 · in Reviews

The Women ***** (1939, Rosalind Russell, Joan Crawford, Norma Shearer, Paulette Goddard, Joan Fontaine, Ruth Hussey, Virginia Weidler, Mary Boland) – Classic Movie Review 2919

Director George Cukor’s delicious 1939 comedy is a vastly entertaining all-female film of Clare Boothe [Luce]’s risqué hit play about an interconnected group of prospective divorcées waiting at a ranch for their divorce decrees and their […]

Sep, 20

Pan *** (2015, Hugh Jackman, Levi Miller, Garrett Hedlund, Rooney Mara, Cara Delevingne, Amanda Seyfried, Paul Kaye, Kathy Burke) – Movie Review

Director Joe Wright’s prequel story of an English orphan boy who is spirited away to the magical Neverland, where he looks for his long-lost mother and finds both fun and danger, is brisk, pleasant and […]

Sep, 20

Tangerines [Mandariinid] **** (2013, Lembit Ulfsak, Elmo Nüganen, Giorgi Nakashidze) – Movie Review

Lembit Ulfsak is extraordinary as elderly Estonian man Ivo, who has stayed behind with his buddy Marcus to harvest his crop of tangerines in evacuated, war-torn in Georgia, Apkhazeti region, in 1990. Apkhazians are fighting to break […]

Sep, 20

Love [Anna Karenina] **** (1927, Greta Garbo, John Gilbert, Brandon Hurst, Philippe De Lacy) – Classic Movie Review 2918

For producer-director Edmund Goulding’s 1927 MGM romantic drama silent movie, there could be only one actress to play Leo Tolstoy’s heroically suffering heroine Anna Karenina – Greta Garbo. MGM made the film to cash in […]

Sep, 20

Anna Christie *** (1930, Greta Garbo, Charles Bickford, George F Marion, Marie Dressler) – Classic Movie Review 2917

In 1930 a nervous MGM studio advertised their biggest star’s long-delayed début in the talkies rather sensibly with ‘Garbo talks!’ And so, after more than half an hour of screen time, she finally does: “Gif […]

Sep, 19

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