Derek Winnert

Posts Tagged "20th century"

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Mrs Dalloway **** (1997, Vanessa Redgrave, John Standing, Margaret Tyzack, Phyllis Calvert, Michael Kitchen, Natascha McElhone, Rupert Graves) – Classic Movie Review 1263

Who’s afraid of Virginia Woolf? Well, not Vanessa Redgrave, who in 1997 at long last finds a part worthy of her again as Mrs Clarissa Dalloway, a middle-aged English socialite reflecting on her safe, comfortable […]

May, 28

Teenage *** (2013) – Movie Review

Writer-director Matt Wolf and Jon Savage’s documentary, comprised of rare archival material, filmed portraits and voices lifted from early 20th-century diary entries, has a good go at providing a back story to the arrival of the teenager […]

Jan, 22

Summer in February *½ (2013, Dominic Cooper, Emily Browning, Dan Stevens) – Film Review

Anyone for a real-life story about love in a bohemian artists’ colony in Cornwall in Edwardian England? Mmm, didn’t think so. Though rewarded with the star big-screen role here, Dominic Cooper doesn’t really light up […]

Jun, 09

The Great Gatsby *** (2013, Leonardo DiCaprio, Carey Mulligan, Joel Edgerton) – Movie Review

F Scott Fitzgerald’s delicate, wispy, thin little thing of a novel, The Great Gatsby has become a ridiculously overblown movie, all fake-looking CGI, nervous performances, restless direction and jittery fast cutting. With enough story for […]

May, 19

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