Derek Winnert

The Whole Wide World **** (1996, Vincent D’Onofrio, Renée Zellweger, Ann Wedgeworth, Harve Presnell) – Classic Movie Review 10,795

Director Dan Ireland’s 1996 biographical film The Whole Wide World is an intriguing and excellently done real-life 1930s Texas-set drama exploring the relationship between pulp-fiction author Robert E Howard (Vincent D’Onofrio), creator of the comic-strip […]

Jan, 16 · in Reviews

The Spider’s Stratagem [Strategia del Ragno] **** (1970, Giulio Brogi, Alida Valli, Tino Scotti, Pippo Campanini) – Classic Movie Review 10,794

Writer-director Bernardo Bertolucci’s stylish, complex and clever 1970 Italian political film The Spider’s Stratagem [Strategia del Ragno] is based on the story Theme of the Traitor and the Hero (Tema del traidor y del héroe) […]

Jan, 15 · in Reviews

1969 *** (1988, Robert Downey Jr, Kiefer Sutherland, Bruce Dern, Mariette Hartley, Winona Ryder, Joanna Cassidy) – Classic Movie Review 10,793

Writer-director Ernest Thompson’s 1988 drama 1969 is a sincere and genial period piece, with appealing performances from the young Kiefer Sutherland and Robert Downey Jr as intelligent hippy Scott and his sensual best mate Ralph, […]

Jan, 15

Novecento [1900] ***** (1976, Robert De Niro, Gérard Depardieu, Dominique Sanda, Burt Lancaster, Sterling Hayden, Donald Sutherland, Stefania Sandrelli) – Classic Movie Review 10,792

Bernardo Bertolucci’s 1976 film 1900 (or Novecento in Italian) is his extraordinary, often brilliant Italian historical epic about a family of Italian nobles and the struggle of the workers in the first half of the […]

Jan, 14

La Commare Secca [The Grim Reaper] **** (1962, Marisa Solinas, Allen Midgette, Giancarlo De Rosa, Alfredo Leggi, Francesco Ruiu, Vincenzo Ciccora) – Classic Movie Review 10,791

The 1962 Italian film La Commare Secca [The Grim Reaper] is written and directed by Bernardo Bertolucci in his extraordinarily confident, stylish and successful directorial debut at the of age 21, with his screenplay based […]

Jan, 14

Before the Revolution [Prima della Rivoluzione] **** (1964, Adriana Asti, Francesco Barilli, Allen Midgette) – Classic Movie Review 10,790

The 1964 black and white romantic and political drama film Before the Revolution [Prima della Rivoluzione] is an early tour-de-force by the young writer-director Bernardo Bertolucci. It demonstrates his cinematic brilliance, mixing the political with […]

Jan, 14

Bloodhounds of Broadway *** (1952, Mitzi Gaynor, Scott Brady, Mitzi Green) – Classic Movie Review 10,789

Director Harmon Jones’s 1952 Technicolor musical film Bloodhounds of Broadway is based on a Damon Runyon story, which provides a good chance for Mitzi Gaynor as little orphan Emily Annie Stackerlee, a country girl who […]

Jan, 14

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