Derek Winnert

"The Review's Better Than The Film"

King of the Wind **** (1990, Navin Chowdhry, Richard Harris, Glenda Jackson, Frank Finlay, Jenny Agutter, Nigel Hawthorne) – Classic Movie Review 9733

Director Peter Duffell’s 1990 film King of the Wind is a first-class family adventure about a mute orphan boy called Agba (Navin Chowdhry) and his fine Arab steed, rescued in Paris by English gent Edward […]

May, 08 · in Reviews

Everybody’s Fine [Stanno Tutti Bene] **** (1990, Marcello Mastroianni, Michèle Morgan, Valeria Cavalli) – Classic Movie Review 9732

Marcello Mastroianni’s certainly fine as Matteo Scuro, a retired old Sicilian bureaucrat who travels to mainland Italy to check what’s happened to his five kids, and is lied to by them to conceal the trouble […]

May, 08 · in Reviews

Everybody’s All-American ** (1988, Jessica Lange, Dennis Quaid, Timothy Hutton, John Goodman, Carl Lumbly) – Classic Movie Review 9731

Director Taylor Hackford’s 1988 romantic sports drama Everybody’s All-American [When I Fall in Love] is one of the films that dragged Dennis Quaid’s star career down just when it had been going so nicely after […]

May, 08

Boot Hill [La Collina degli Stivali] ** (1969, Terence Hill, Bud Spencer, Woody Strode, Lionel Stander, Woody Strode, Victor Buono, Eduardo Ciannelli) – Classic Movie Review 9730

Writer-director Giuseppe Colizzi’s violent 1969 Spaghetti Western film Boot Hill [La Collina degli Stivali] has too much broad, off-target comedy and offers yet another popular, if easily resistible pairing of Terence Hill (as Cat Stevens!) […]

May, 07

Les Bonnes Femmes *** (1960, Bernadette Lafont, Clotilde Joano, Stéphane Audran) – Classic Movie Review 9729

Director Claude Chabrol’s 1960 black and white romantic mystery drama Les Bonnes Femmes [The Girls] tells the tale of four young women – Jane (Bernadette Lafont), Ginette (Chabrol’s later wife Stéphane Audran), Jacqueline (Clotilde Joano) […]

May, 07

The Bofors Gun ** (1968, Nicol Williamson, Ian Holm, David Warner, John Thaw, Peter Vaughan, Barry Jackson) – Classic Movie Review 9728

Director Jack Gold’s 1968 British drama The Bofors Gun stars Nicol Williamson, Ian Holm, David Warner, John Thaw, Peter Vaughan, Barry Jackson, Richard O’Callaghan and Donald Gee. Fine acting saves the day for this glum […]

May, 07

Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead ** (1990, Gary Oldman, Tim Roth, Richard Dreyfuss) – Classic Movie Review 9727

Writer Tom Stoppard turns director to supervise the 1990 film Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, the movie of his wordy (or dialogue driven) play about two of the minor characters from Hamlet – courtiers who […]

May, 07

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