Derek Winnert

The Beach **** (2000, Leonardo DiCaprio, Daniel York, Virginie Ledoyen, Guillaume Canet, Robert Carlyle, Tilda Swinton) – Classic Movie Review 10,530

Leonardo DiCaprio sheds 20 pounds to get fit for the part of Richard in Danny Boyle’s fascinating, great-looking 2000 film of The Beach, with a persuasive and effective screenplay by John Hodge based on the […]

Nov, 10 · in Reviews

Rhapsody in Blue *** (1945, Robert Alda, Joan Leslie, Alexis Smith, Charles Coburn) – Classic Movie Review 10,527

Rhapsody in Blue (1945) was nominated for two Oscars: Best Music, Scoring of a Musical Picture (Ray Heindorf, Max Steiner) and Best Sound, Recording (Nathan Levinson). Rather surprisingly, Warner Bros entered it into the Cannes […]

Nov, 10 · in Reviews

Richard’s Things ** (1980, Liv Ullmann, Amanda Redman, Tim Pigott-Smith) – Classic Movie Review 10,526

Liv Ullmann comes to Britain to play Kate, who loses her husband in an accident and finds out that he was having an affair with Josie (Amanda Redman). The two women comfort each other, and […]

Nov, 10

The Dollar Bottom *** (1981, Robert Urquhart, Rikki Fulton, Jonathan McNeil) – Classic Movie Review 10,525

The entertaining 1981 British comedy short The Dollar Bottom is an amusing, light-hearted little film, which won the 1981 Oscar for Best Short Film, Live Action, about an enterprising 50s Scottish schoolboy who promotes an […]

Nov, 10

Lost Horizon (1973, Peter Finch, Liv Ullmann, Sally Kellerman, Bobby Van, George Kennedy, Michael York, Olivia Hussey, James Shigeta, John Gielgud) – Classic Movie Review 10,524

Director Charles Jarrott’s 1972 musical Lost Horizon was a British Royal Command Performance film and has a fine cast, but remaking Frank Capra’s 1937 classic Lost Horizon about an idyllic life in a Tibetan valley […]

Nov, 10

The Abdication * (1974, Peter Finch, Liv Ullmann, Cyril Cusack) – Classic Movie Review 10,523

Queen Christina: ‘I, Christina, Sovereign of Sweden, do hereby abdicate my throne.’ ‘She shook the Vatican like an earthquake. Shocking whispers had preceded her. Debauchery. Unspeakable acts. A reign of scandal… And now she had […]

Nov, 10

Mulholland Falls **** (1996, Nick Nolte, Melanie Griffith, Chris Penn, Bruce Dern, John Malkovich, Chazz Palminteri, Michael Madsen, Treat Williams, Jennifer Connelly, Daniel Baldwin, Kyle Chandler, Ed Lauter) – Classic Movie Review 10,522

Mulholland Falls (1996) is a great-looking, fine neo noir crime thriller with a fine cast to make it work. Nick Nolte stars as Max Hoover, with Melanie Griffith, Chris Penn, Bruce Dern, John Malkovich, Chazz […]

Nov, 10

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