Derek Winnert

Capernaum [Capharnaüm] **** (2018, Zain Al Rafeea, Yordanos Shiferaw, Boluwatife Treasure Bankole, Kawsar Al Haddad, Fadi Yousef, Haita ‘Cedra’ Izzam, Alaa Chouchnieh, Nadine Labaki, Elias Khoury) – Movie Review

Co-writer/ director Nadine Labaki’s Capernaum [Capharnaüm] [Chaos] (2018) is a well deserved Oscar nominee for Best Foreign Language Film of the Year for Lebanon. Zain Al Rafeea gives a brilliant little performance as Zain, a […]

Feb, 21 · in Reviews

The Disappearance *** (1977, Donald Sutherland, Francine Racette, David Hemmings, Christopher Plummer, John Hurt, David Warner, Peter Bowles, Virginia McKenna ) – Classic Movie Review 8160

Director Stuart Cooper’s 1977 Canadian neo noir thriller The Disappearance is a sleekly made and intriguing upmarket mystery, based on Derek Marlowe’s novel Echoes of Celandine, starring Donald Sutherland as a contract killer called Jay […]

Feb, 21 · in Reviews

The Private Life of Don Juan ** (1934, Douglas Fairbanks Sr, Merle Oberon, Binnie Barnes, Joan Gardner, Gina Malo, Benita Hume, Melville Cooper, Athene Seyler) – Classic Movie Review 8,159

Alexander Korda’s 1934 British romantic comedy drama film The Private Life of Don Juan stars Douglas Fairbanks Sr in his final role as an aging Don Juan, along with Merle Oberon, Binnie Barnes, Joan Gardner, Gina […]

Feb, 20

Four in the Morning *** (1965, Ann Lynn, Judi Dench, Norman Rodway, Brian Phelan, Joe Melia) – Classic Movie Review 8158

Writer-director Anthony Simmons’s fresh and poignant 1965 British bitter-sweet drama Four in the Morning stars Ann Lynn, Judi Dench, Norman Rodway, Brian Phelan and Joe Melia. An excellent cast of mostly British theatre players bring […]

Feb, 20

Cattle Queen of Montana ** (1954, Barbara Stanwyck, Ronald Reagan, Gene Evans, Lance Fuller) – Classic Movie Review 8157

Cult director Allan Dwan’s tame though acceptable 1954 Western Cattle Queen of Montana stars Barbara Stanwyck as the battling cattle queen Sierra Nevada Jones, who fights to protect her cattle from raids by both renegade Indians and […]

Feb, 20

The Stendhal Syndrome [La Sindrome di Stendhal] ** (1996, Asia Argento, Thomas Kretschmann, Marco Leonardi) – Classic Movie Review 8156

Asia Argento stars as Anna Manni, a homicide detective, who unwittingly suffers from the dizzy-making Stendhal Syndrome of the title, battling a serial rapist-killer, in the 1996 The Stendhal Syndrome [La Sindrome di Stendhal]. It […]

Feb, 20

Catherine the Great [The Rise of Catherine the Great] *** (1934, Douglas Fairbanks Jr, Elisabeth Bergner, Flora Robson) – Classic Movie Review 8155

The great style of the German-born Catherine II, Empress of Russia from 1762 to 1796, captures the sympathy of the Russians in producer Alexander Korda’s typically lavish, costly version of the tale, intriguingly scripted from […]

Feb, 20

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