Derek Winnert

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich ***½ (1970, Tom Courtenay, Espen Skjønberg, Alf Malland, Alfred Burke, James Maxwell, Eric Thompson, Matthew Guinness) – Classic Movie Review 10,719

Writer-producer-director Casper Wrede’s 1970 Norwegian biographical drama One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich stars Tom Courtenay, who is remarkable as Ivan Denisovich, the prisoner serving a harsh sentence of 10 years in a […]

Dec, 28 · in Reviews

The Man Who Had His Hair Cut Short **** (1966, Senne Rouffaer, Beata Tyszkiewicz, Hector Camerlynck) – Classic Movie Review 10,718

Director André Delvaux’s 1966 Belgian film The Man Who Had his Hair Cut Short [De man die zijn haar kort liet knippen] stars Senne Rouffaer as a middle-aged law clerk whose obsession with a famous […]

Dec, 28 · in Reviews

One Crazy Summer ** (1986, John Cusack, Demi Moore, Bobcat Goldthwait, Curtis Armstrong, Joel Murray, Linda Warren, William Hickey) – Classic Movie Review 10,717

Writer-director Savage Steve Holland’s bright and lively 1986 romantic comedy One Crazy Summer stars John Cusack, Demi Moore, Bobcat Goldthwait, Curtis Armstrong and Joel Murray, who give fresh performances and are good company. Holland’s script […]

Dec, 28

Bequest to the Nation [The Nelson Affair] ** (1973, Glenda Jackson, Peter Finch, Michael Jayston, Anthony Quayle, Margaret Leighton, Dominic Guard, Nigel Stock) – Classic Movie Review 10,716

Director James Cellan Jones’s 1973 British historical biopic Bequest to the Nation [The Nelson Affair] stars Peter Finch as Viscount Horatio Nelson (1759-1805) and Glenda Jackson as his mistress Lady Emma Hamilton (1765-1815). This is […]

Dec, 27

Benvenuta *** (1983, Fanny Ardant, Vittorio Gassman, Françoise Fabian, Mathieu Carrière) – Classic Movie Review 10,715

Belgian writer-director André Delvaux assembles a strong cast for the 1983 film Benvenuta, his skilful, stylish but finally puzzling romance about a film writer called François (Mathieu Carrière) who digs out a reclusive novelist called […]

Dec, 27

The Benny Goodman Story *** (1956, Steve Allen, Donna Reed, Berta Gersten) – Classic Movie Review 10,714

Steve Allen stars – quite impressively too – in writer-director Valentine Davies’s 1956 The Benny Goodman Story, a sentimental fictionalised musical around the career of Benny Goodman, the ace clarinet player from Chicago’s Jewish quarter, […]

Dec, 27

Moon Zero Two *** (1969, James Olson, Catherine Schell, Warren Mitchell, Adrienne Corri) – Classic Movie Review 10,713

Hammer Films studios abandon horror for director Roy Ward Baker’s brave and ambitious 1969 British sci-fi movie Moon Zero Two, a hybrid Western set in a future-world outer space on the Moon in the year 2021, […]

Dec, 27

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