Derek Winnert

The Mattei Affair ***** (1972, Gian Maria Volontè, Luigi Squarzina, Peter Baldwin) – Classic Movie Review 8606

Director Francesco Rosi’s 1972 biographical docudrama The Mattei Affair [Il Caso Mattei] stars Gian Maria Volontè, who is superb as Italian socialist oil mogul Enrico Mattei in Rosi’s masterly biopic of the World War Two […]

Jun, 18 · in Reviews

Christ Stopped at Eboli [Cristo si è fermato a Eboli] ***** (1979, Gian Maria Volontè, Paolo Bonacelli, Alain Cuny, Lea Massari, Irene Papas) – Classic Movie Review 8,605

Francesco Rosi’s 1979 Italian drama film Christ Stopped at Eboli [Cristo si è fermato a Eboli] is based on the book by Carlo Levi, a political dissident exiled under Fascism. Gian Maria Volonté stars as Levi and Lea Massari plays Luisa […]

Jun, 18 · in Reviews

Bread and Chocolate [Pane e Cioccolata] **** (1974, Nino Manfredi, Anna Karina, Paolo Turco) – Classic Movie Review 8604

Director Franco Brusati’s 1974 Bread and Chocolate [Pane e Cioccolata] stars Nino Manfredi as Nino Garofoli, an Italian waiter who quits his home in Sicily for a better life in Switzerland, where, alas, he is […]

Jun, 18

To Forget Venice [Dimenticare Venezia] ***** (1979, Mariangela Melato, Eleonora Giorgi, Erland Josephson) – Classic Movie Review 8603

Story-writer/ co-producer/ director Franco Brusati’s 1979 drama To Forget Venice [Dimenticare Venezia] is an exquisitely performed, delicately told story of two mixed gay couples spending a weekend in the country. A brother, Nicky (Erland Josephson), […]

Jun, 18

The Human Factor ** (1979, Richard Attenborough, Nicol Williamson, Derek Jacobi, John Gielgud) – Classic Movie Review 8602

Otto Preminger’s 1979 spy film The Human Factor adapts the Graham Greene novel about an apparently innocent man, Maurice Castle (Nicol Williamson), suspected of being an MI6 mole. Producer-director Otto Preminger’s feeble, uninspired 1979 British […]

Jun, 17

The Cardinal *** (1963, Tom Tryon, John Huston, Romy Schneider) – Classic Movie Review 8601

Director Otto Preminger’s colourfully glossy saga of the young Boston priest called Stephen Fermoyle (Tom Tryon), who battles racists at home and Nazis abroad, and then becomes a cardinal, is a big and bumpy experience, […]

Jun, 17

Barnabo of the Mountains [Barnabo delle Montagne] **** (1994, Marco Pauletti, Duilio Fontana, Carlo Caserotti) – Classic Movie Review 8600

Marco Pauletti stars as mountain man Barnabo in co-writer/ director Mario Brenta’s extraordinary, atmospheric, poetic Italian neo-realist mountain movie that does require some patience and understanding, but it will reward it. It is remarkable as […]

Jun, 17

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