Derek Winnert

A Farewell To Arms ** (1957, Rock Hudson, Jennifer Jones, Vittorio de Sica) – Classic Movie Review 1246

Producer David O Selznick in 1957 turns Ernest Hemingway’s complex, famous world-classic 1929 semi-autobiographical novel into a bloated Hollywood romance in this overlong, overblown and underwhelming remake of the 1932 film with Gary Cooper and […]

May, 24 · in Reviews

A Farewell To Arms **** (1932, Gary Cooper, Helen Hayes, Adolphe Menjou) – Classic Movie Review 1245

Director Frank Borzage in 1932 turns Ernest Hemingway’s complex, famous world-classic 1929 semi-autobiographical novel into a classy and stylish Hollywood romance. It won two Oscars and was nominated for best picture. Gary Cooper stars as […]

May, 24 · in Reviews

Léon *** [Léon: The Professional] (1994, Jean Reno, Natalie Portman, Gary Oldman, Danny Aiello) – Classic Movie Review 1244

This slick but reprehensible 1994 English-language French urban neo noir thriller is directed with knowing flash that is all surface and no depth by co-producer/ writer/ director Luc Besson. His story about an illiterate mob […]

May, 24

The Leopard [Il Gattopardo] ***** (1963, Burt Lancaster, Alain Delon, Claudia Cardinale) – Classic Movie Review 1,243

Burt Lancaster is on his most commanding form as a proud Sicilian nobleman, and Alain Delon and Claudia Cardinale are at their most dashing as the young lovers, in Luchino Visconti’s majestic 1963 movie The […]

May, 23

The Seventh Seal ***** (1957, Max von Sydow, Gunnar Björnstrand, Bengt Ekerot, Bibi Andersson, Nils Poppe) – Classic Movie Review 1242

The majestic Swedish writer-director Ingmar Bergman’s 1957 masterwork The Seventh Seal is a major classic of world cinema. After 17 films as director, it established Bergman’s international reputation as a film-maker of world renown and […]

May, 23

The Apartment ***** (1960, Jack Lemmon, Shirley MacLaine, Fred MacMurray) – Classic Movie Review 1241

‘That’s the way it crumbles… cookie-wise.’ – C.C. Baxter. Co-writer/producer/director Billy Wilder’s delightful bitter-sweet comedy 1960 classic stars Jack Lemmon as Calvin Clifford (C C) ‘Buddy Boy’ Baxter. It is Wilder’s triumphant follow-up to Some Like […]

May, 22

Confessions of a Dangerous Mind *** (2003, Sam Rockwell, George Clooney, Julia Roberts) – Classic Movie Review 1240

Chuck Barris has a notable place in American TV history as the Sixties and Seventies deviser and host of The Dating Game (1965–1986), the original US version of Blind Date, and host of The Gong […]

May, 22

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