Derek Winnert

Posts Tagged "London"

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Gholam *** (2017, Shahab Hosseini, Nasser Memarzia, Armin Karima) – Movie Review

Good and gritty British Iranian thriller, with an unusual story, a strong central performance by Shahab Hosseini as troubled London cab driver Gholam and striking cinematography that gives a fresh take on a grungy, run-down […]

Jan, 28

The Siege of Sidney Street *** (1960, Donald Sinden, Peter Wyngarde, Nicole Berger, Kieron Moore) – Classic Movie Review 6584

Directors Robert S Baker and Monty Berman’s 1960 historical film about the once famous London East End gunfight battle between armed British police (and army) and Russian anarchists in January of 1911 is a solid rather […]

Jan, 20

The Party **** (2017, Patricia Clarkson, Kristin Scott Thomas, Timothy Spall, Cillian Murphy, Emily Mortimer, Bruno Ganz, Cherry Jones) – Movie Review

‘You’re a first class lesbian and a second rate thinker. Must be all those women’s studies.’ Writer-director Sally Potter’s 71-minute black and white tragic-comedy drama is great – stylish, witty and clever. I hadn’t expected […]

Dec, 28

Kaleidoscope *** (1966, Warren Beatty, Susannah York, Clive Revill, Eric Porter, Murray Melvin) –  Classic Movie Review 6,226

Warren Beatty came to Swinging Sixties England to team up with English rose Susannah York for director Jack Smight’s breezy 1966 romantic caper comedy thriller film Kaleidoscope.  Warren Beatty came to Swinging Sixties England to […]

Nov, 11

Strange Bedfellows ** (1965, Rock Hudson, Gina Lollobrigida, Gig Young) – Classic Movie Review 6129

Co-writer/ co-producer/ director Melvin Frank’s pleasant if only moderate 1965 romantic comedy repairs the glamorous and alluring successful star team of Rock Hudson of Gina Lollobrigida from Come September (1961). Hudson plays Carter Harrison, a […]

Oct, 23

Dirty Pretty Things **** (2002, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Audrey Tautou, Sophie Okonedo) – Classic Movie Review 6104

Director Stephen Frears’s 2002 British crime drama thriller is one of his successes. Chiwetel Ejiofor shines as Okwe, an illegal Nigerian immigrant in London working both as a cabbie and in a hotel, in Stephen Frears’s […]

Oct, 17

Do Not Disturb ** (1965, Doris Day, Rod Taylor, Sergio Fantoni, Hermione Baddeley, Reginald Gardiner, Maura McGiveney) – Classic Movie Review 6078

Director Ralph Levy’s fairly daft but bright enough 1965 farcical comedy of gentle misunderstandings successfully teams Doris Day with Rod Taylor. Based on William Fairchild’s play Some Other Love, it is a frothy marital mix-ups comedy […]

Oct, 11

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