Derek Winnert

Olivier, Olivier **** (1992, Brigitte Roüan, François Cluzet, Jean-François Stévenin, Grégoire Colin) – Classic Movie Review 9772

Writer-director Agnieszka Holland’s 1991 drama Olivier, Olivier is her underrated successor to her 1990 hit Europa Europa. It is an extremely affecting tale of a distraught French suburban family who eagerly embrace the broke rent-boy […]

May, 15 · in Reviews

Olympia ***** (1938, dir Leni Riefenstahl) – Classic Movie Review 9771

Writer-producer-director Leni Riefenstahl’s 1938 documentary film Olympia [Die Olympischen Spiele] [Olympiad] is an unhealthy paean to the Nazi belief in the power of the body beautiful and the rigours of the outdoor lifestyle, which is […]

May, 15 · in Reviews

Los Olvidados [The Young and the Damned] ***** (1950, Alfonso Mejía, Miguel Inclán, Roberto Cobo, Estela Inda) – Classic Movie Review 9770

Director Luis Buñuel’s incisive, but unsentimental and deliberately non-judgmental 1950 Mexican film Los Olvidados [The Young and the Damned] tackles the appalling living conditions in the slums of Mexico City and their effect on a […]

May, 15

The Plough and the Stars ** (Barbara Stanwyck, Preston Foster, Barry Fitzgerald, Una O’Connor) – Classic Movie Review 9769

The 1936 film The Plough and the Stars is John Ford’s failed labour-of-love version of the Sean O’Casey play about the 1916 Irish rebellion, centring on Nora Clitheroe (Barbara Stanwyck)’s fight to stop her rebel […]

May, 15

Only You ** (1992, Andrew McCarthy, Kelly Preston, Helen Hunt) – Classic Movie Review 9768

Director Betty Thomas’s 1992 film Only You stars Andrew McCarthy as dollhouse furniture designer Clifford Godfrey, who is rejected by his perfect lover on the eve of their vacation. But the trip is on again […]

May, 15

The Ploughman’s Lunch **** (1983, Jonathan Pryce, Tim Curry, Rosemary Harris, Frank Finlay, Bill Paterson) – Classic Movie Review 9767

Director Richard Eyre’s intelligent and well-observed 1983 political British drama film The Ploughman’s Lunch stars Jonathan Pryce, who is creepy and convincing as James Penfield, an egotistical radio journalist, who writes a book on Suez […]

May, 14

Only You **** (1994, Marisa Tomei, Robert Downey Jr, Bonnie Hunt, Billy Zane, Joaquim de Almeida, Fisher Stevens) – Classic Movie Review 9766

‘The important thing is true love.’ Mmm… quite. Director Norman Jewison’s utterly sweet 1994 old-style romantic comedy Only You sets out to prove its own adage as hopeless romantic Faith Corvatch (Marisa Tomei) sets off […]

May, 14

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