Derek Winnert

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Quebec ** (1951, John Drew Barrymore, Corinne Calvet, Barbara Rush, Patric Knowles, John Hoyt, Arnold Moss, Don Haggerty) – Classic Movie Review 8068

Director George Templeton’s 1951 romantic historical adventure Quebec is silly, unpersuasive costumed tosh located during the 1830s Canadian battle for independence from Britain. The emphasis is on a soapy personal story in which the governor’s […]

Jan, 27

Paris Blues *** (1961, Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Sidney Poitier, Louis Armstrong, Diahann Carroll, Serge Reggiani, Barbara Laage) – Classic Movie Review 6853

Director Martin Ritt’s interesting, underrated 1961 movie stars Paul Newman and Sidney Poitier as Ram Bowen and Eddie Cook, American ex-pat jazz players in Paris who cuddle up to two American tourists, Lillian and Connie […]

Mar, 25

Death in Venice [Morte a Venezia] ***** (1971, Dirk Bogarde, Björn Andrésen, Silvana Mangano, Romolo Valli, Mark Burns, Marisa Berenson) – Classic Film Rview 607

Dirk Bogarde’s extraordinary tour-de-force as an ageing German avant-garde composer Gustav von Aschenbach is the jewel in the crown of Luchino Visconti’s masterly 1971 film adaptation of the Thomas Mann novella Death in Venice. In […]

Jan, 02

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