Derek Winnert

Miss Julie ** (1999, Saffron Burrows, Peter Mullan, Maria Doyle Kennedy) – Classic Movie Review 7713

Writer-producer-director Mike Figgis’s 1999 British film Miss Julie is an interesting but stagey and sluggish rendition of August Strindberg’s world classic play, with actory performances, too many hand-held camera and too-large close-ups, in which the […]

Oct, 28 · in Reviews

Miss Julie [Fröken Julie] **** (1951, Anita Björk, Ulf Palme, Märta Dorff) – Classic Movie Review 7712

Director Alf Sjöberg’s 1951 Swedish classic Miss Julie (Fröken Julie) is a masterly reworking for cinema of August Strindberg’s world renowned play, in which the moneyed Miss Julie (Anita Björk) plays with her man-servant Jean […]

Oct, 28 · in Reviews

Miracle in Milan [Miracolo a Milano] **** (1951, Emma Gramatica, Francesco Golisano, Paolo Stoppa, Brunella Bovo, Guglielmo Barnabò) – Classic Movie Review 7711

Producer-director Vittorio De Sica’s warmhearted 1951 Italian classic Miracle in Milan [Miracolo a Milano] is a fairy tale about an angelic young orphan called Totò (Francesco Golisano) who arrives in a poor community outside Milan where […]

Oct, 28

The Garden of the Finzi-Continis [Il giardino dei Finzi Contini] ***** (1970, Dominique Sanda, Lino Capolicchio, Helmut Berger, Fabio Testi, Romolo Valli) – Classic Movie Review 7,710

The 1970 Oscar-winning Italian drama film The Garden of Finzi-Continis (Il Giardino dei Finzi Contini) is a marvellous late return to form for director Vittorio De Sica, who revisits the period of his youth to […]

Oct, 28

Adolf Hitler: My Part in His Downfall *** (1973, Jim Dale, Arthur Lowe, Bill Maynard) – Classic Movie Review 7709

‘After Young Winston – Young Milligan!’ Director Norman Cohen’s sometimes amusing 1973 comedy Adolf Hitler: My Part in His Downfall is based on the entertaining novel of the great and good legendary comic Spike Milligan. […]

Oct, 27

The Hate U Give **** (2018, Amandla Stenberg, Regina Hall, Russell Hornsby, K J Apa, Algee Smith, Anthony Mackie, Common) – Movie Review

Amandla Stenberg gives a stellar performance as troubled high school teen Starr Carter, in director George Tillman Jr’s epic crime/ race drama The Hate U Give. Audrey Wells writes a very convincing, well organised screenplay based on […]

Oct, 27

The Virgin Queen *** (1955, Bette Davis, Richard Todd, Joan Collins, Herbert Marshall, Jay Robinson, Dan O’Herlihy) – Classic Movie Review 7708

Director Henry Koster’s 1955 historical drama The Virgin Queen provides a useful showcase for Bette Davis to re-create her superb Queen Elizabeth I characterisation from the classic The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex (1939), […]

Oct, 27

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