Derek Winnert

F for Fake **** (1973, Orson Welles) – Classic Movie Review 2459

Orson Welles’s entertaining free-form documentary about fraud and fakery sees him reflecting on truth and illusion in an insubstantial and jokey but resourceful and witty artifice that uses a re-edited TV documentary about a famous […]

May, 06 · in Reviews

Greed ***** (1924, Gibson Gowland, Zasu Pitts, Jean Hersholt) – Classic Movie Review 2458

Co-writer/director Erich von Stroheim’s swirlingly obsessive 1924 epic silent movie tale of money obsession is ambitious and masterly. It was a critical and financial failure on its initial release, but by the 1950s it began […]

May, 06 · in Reviews

The Greatest Story Ever Told **** (1965, Max von Sydow, Dorothy McGuire, Charlton Heston) – Classic Movie Review 2,457

George Stevens’s 1965 biblical epic film The Greatest Story Ever Told stars Max von Sydow, who brings dignity and nobility to his portrayal of Jesus Christ in this story of his life. John Wayne pops […]

May, 06

The Greatest Show on Earth **** (1952, Betty Hutton, Charlton Heston, Gloria Grahame, James Stewart, Cornel Wilde, Dorothy Lamour) – Classic Movie Review 2456

Cecil B DeMille carried off the Best Picture Oscar for The Greatest Show on Earth (1952). Gloria Grahame had to let an elephant rest its foot an inch from her face.  Big, bigger, biggest seems […]

May, 06

Delight *** (2013, Tim Dutton, Gavin Fowler, Jeanne Balibar) – Movie Review

There’s something commendable about this minimal but quietly mesmerising drama from independent British writer-director Gareth Jones.   French actress Jeanne Balibar plays passionate former war photographer Echo hits the road with her two children after […]

May, 05

The Arsenal Stadium Mystery *** (1939, Leslie Banks, Greta Gynt, Esmond Knight) – Classic Movie Review 2455

Leslie Banks gives a good, solid and splendidly offbeat star performance as Detective Inspector Anthony Slade, an oddball Scotland Yard policeman, in director Thorold Dickinson’s fair, fun 1939 little British murder mystery thriller. It is notable as […]

May, 04

Around the World in 80 Days ***½ (1989, Pierce Brosnan, Eric Idle, Julia Nickson, Robert Morley, Peter Ustinov) – Classic Movie Review 2454

In director Buzz Kulik’s classy, entertaining 1989 Malta-made miniseries, an ideally cast Pierce Brosnan shines as Jules Verne’s Victorian adventurer Phileas Fogg and Eric Idle is a total scene-stealer as his French gentleman’s gentleman Passepartout. […]

May, 04

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