Derek Winnert

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 · in Reviews

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 · in Reviews

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

Anna Karenina * (1997, Sophie Marceau, Sean Bean, Alfred Molina, Mia Kirschner, James Fox, Fiona Shaw, Danny Huston, Phyllida Law) – Classic Movie Review 2916

Writer-director Bernard Rose’s appallingly misjudged 1997 British film version of Leo Tolstoy’s novel is totally scuppered by the miscasting of the central duo of Sophie Marceau and Sean Bean as the married 19th-century Russian aristocrat […]

Sep, 19

Anna Karenina *** (1948, Vivien Leigh, Ralph Richardson, Kieron Moore, Sally Ann Howes, Martita Hunt) – Classic Movie Review 2915

Producer Alexander Korda and director Julien Duvivier’s 1948 British remake of the 1935 Greta Garbo Hollywood success based on Leo Tolstoy’s classic novel Anna Karenina is appealing enough but not quite another triumph. Unfortunately, the famous […]

Sep, 19

Anna Karenina ***** (1935, Greta Garbo, Fredric March, Basil Rathbone, Freddie Bartholomew, Maureen O’Sullivan, May Robson, Reginald Owen, Reginald Denny) – Classic Movie Review 2914

Producer David O Selznick and director Clarence Brown work over Leo Tolstoy’s great 1877 novel as a 1935 big studio movie vehicle for the great Greta Garbo as Anna Karenina, the young wife of the […]

Sep, 19

Bill ** (2015, Mathew Baynton, Ben Willbond, Jim Howick, Laurence Rickard, Simon Farnaby, Martha Howe-Douglas) – Movie Review

Mathew Baynton stars as hopeless lute player Bill Shakespeare, who leaves his wife Anne Hathaway (Martha Howe-Douglas) and home to follow his dream to make it big in London as a writer. There are some laughs in […]

Sep, 18

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