Derek Winnert

Madame Bovary **** (1934, Valentine Tessier, Pierre Renoir, Fernand Fabre, Daniel Lecourtois) – Classic Movie Review 7345

[Spoiler alert] Jean Renoir’s captivating and compelling 1934 film version of Gustave Flaubert’s classic literature novel story of how Emma Bovary (Valentine Tessier) is stifled after she marries boring Normandy doctor Charles Bovary (Pierre Renoir, […]

Jul, 26 · in Uncategorized

Madame Bovary *** (1991, Isabelle Huppert, Jean-François Balmer, Christophe Malavoy) – Classic Movie Review 7344

The ideally cast Isabelle Huppert and Jean-François Balmer are splendid in Claude Chabrol’s lavish, handsome and well-played but dry, chilly, dark and depressing French 1991 film production of Gustave Flaubert’s much re-told story of how […]

Jul, 26 · in Uncategorized

O Henry’s Full House **** (1952, Charles Laughton, David Wayne, Marilyn Monroe, Dale Robertson, Richard Widmark, Anne Baxter, Jean Peters, Gregory Ratoff, Fred Allen, Oscar Levant, Jeanne Crain, Farley Granger) – Classic Movie Review 7343

‘A dozen top stars – five famed directors – bring you the best stories of O. Henry!’ The 20th Century Fox studio’s compendium anthology film of five of O Henry’s most celebrated stories from his New […]

Jul, 26

Madame Butterfly ** (1932, Sylvia Sidney, Cary Grant, Charles Ruggles) – Classic Movie Review 7342

Director Marion Gering’s 1932 Paramount Pictures black and white movie Madame Butterfly is an antique curio, but nevertheless an interesting one, and Sylvia Sidney makes something touching of the famous tragic heroine. The normally polished Cary Grant […]

Jul, 25

My Brilliant Career **** (1979, Judy Davis, Sam Neill, Wendy Hughes, Robert Grubb, Max Cullen, Patricia Kennedy, Aileen Britton) – Classic Movie Review 7341

Director Gillian Armstrong’s 1979 Australian feminist drama My Brilliant Career stars Judy Davis, giving a commanding performance in her second film as Sybylla Melvyn, the fiercely independent, self-assured Aussie bush-farmer’s daughter who wants to take […]

Jul, 25

Mrs Soffel *** (1984, Diane Keaton, Mel Gibson, Matthew Modine, Edward Herrmann, Trini Alvarado, Jenny Dundas) – Classic Movie Review 7340

Director Gillian Armstrong’s 1984 drama Mrs Soffel looks good on paper: the then new star Mel Gibson on the crest on a wave, Oscar-winning Diane Keaton in mid-career, and bright new star Matthew Modine in […]

Jul, 25

Ladies Should Listen ** (1934, Cary Grant, Frances Drake, Edward Everett Horton, Nydia Westman, George Barbier) – Classic Movie Review 7339

Director Frank Tuttle’s 1934 archetypal Thirties romantic comedy Ladies Should Listen stars Cary Grant as a wide-eyed French business executive called Julian de Lussac under assault from his romantically inclined switchboard operator telephonist Anna Mirelle […]

Jul, 25

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