Derek Winnert

The Main Event *** (1979, Barbra Streisand, Ryan O’Neal) – Classic Film Review 1235

Director Howard Zieff’s 1979 screwball comedy reunites the sparkling stars of 1972’s What’s Up Doc? – but alas they can’t quite come up with the same kind of magic. Barbra Streisand stars as Hillary Kramer, […]

May, 20 · in Reviews

Yentl **** (1983, Barbra Streisand, Amy Irving, Mandy Patinkin) – Classic Movie Review 1234

Director Barbra Streisand’s 1983 version of Isaac Bashevis Singer’s short story Yentl the Yeshiva Boy, a tale about a Jewess in Poland who cross-dresses to receive a boy’s schooling, is an exceptional labour of love […]

May, 20 · in Reviews

Hello, Dolly! ***** (1969, Barbra Streisand, Walter Matthau, Michael Crawford, Louis Armstrong, Danny Lockin, Tommy Tune, Fritz Feld) – Classic Movie Review 1233

Director Gene Kelly’s gloriously tuneful and delightful 1969 movie of Jerry Herman’s 1964 Broadway magical musical, based on Thornton Wilder’s classic play The Matchmaker, won three Oscars. The 27-year-old Barbra Streisand may be far too […]

May, 20

What’s Up, Doc? ***** (1972, Barbra Streisand, Ryan O’Neal, Madeline Kahn) – Classic Movie Review 1,232

Peter Bogdanovich’s hilarious 1972 What’s Up, Doc? reworks the 1938 screwball comedy classic Bringing Up Baby for delightful stars Barbra Streisand and Ryan O’Neal. The delightful 1972 comedy film What’s Up, Doc? sees its stars Barbra […]

May, 19

Gaslight **** (1940, Anton Walbrook, Diana Wynyard) – Classic Movie Review 1230

Director Thorold Dickinson’s 1940 British psychological thriller film stars Anton Walbrook, Diana Wynyard, and Frank Pettingell. It is based on Patrick Hamilton’s 1938 stage play Gas Light, following it more faithfully than the 1944 MGM […]

May, 18

Gaslight ***** (1944, Ingrid Bergman, Charles Boyer, Joseph Cotten, Angela Lansbury, Dame May Whitty) – Classic Movie Review 1231

Gaslight (1944) won two Academy Awards. The Oscar voters surprisingly preferred Ingrid Bergman over the favourite Barbara Stanwyck (in Double Indemnity) for her performance as the naïve socialite wife driven to distraction (by Charles Boyer) […]

May, 18

High Society **** (1956, Bing Crosby, Grace Kelly, Frank Sinatra) – Classic Film Review 1229

Director Charles Walters’s 1956 movie is a classy, pleasurable, richly enjoyable musical remake of The Philadelphia Story (1940). The sharply acidic social romantic comedy of the original is reworked by MGM as a smooth, glossy and ultra-plush […]

May, 18

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