Derek Winnert

Posts Tagged "docudrama"

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The Mattei Affair ***** (1972, Gian Maria Volontè, Luigi Squarzina, Peter Baldwin) – Classic Movie Review 8606

Director Francesco Rosi’s 1972 biographical docudrama The Mattei Affair [Il Caso Mattei] stars Gian Maria Volontè, who is superb as Italian socialist oil mogul Enrico Mattei in Rosi’s masterly biopic of the World War Two […]

Jun, 18

Cathy Come Home ***** (1966, Carol White, Ray Brooks, Winifred Dennis) – Classic Movie Review 8380

Director Ken Loach’s realistic black and white classic 1966 BBC TV drama The Wednesday Play: Cathy Come Home is a searing indictment of the social services in the British welfare system of the Sixties, focusing on […]

Apr, 19

The Return *** (2018, Karoline Sofie Lee, Thomas Hwan) – Movie Review

Karoline Sofie Lee and Thomas Hwan play two Danish-Korean adoptees in their early thirties, who leave Denmark and return for the first time to Korea, where they were born and given up for adoption, for […]

Nov, 15

Reversal of Fortune **** (1990, Jeremy Irons, Ron Silver, Glenn Close, Annabella Sciorra, Uta Hagen, Fisher Stevens, Christine Baranski) – Classic Movie Review 7232

Director Barbet Schroeder’s 1990 biographical mystery docudrama thriller Reversal of Fortune, based on actual events, stars Jeremy Irons, who grabbed a well-deserved Best Actor Oscar and a Golden Globe for one of his most authoritative performances […]

Jun, 29

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