Derek Winnert

Posts Tagged "love"

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Music and Lyrics **** (2007, Hugh Grant, Drew Barrymore, Scott Porter, Haley Bennett) – Classic Movie Review 372

In what was his best film for ages, Hugh Grant also got his best role in ages in 2007 as a breezy, washed-up singer called Alex Fletcher. He lives comfortably and dully in Manhattan from […]

Nov, 06

Love Actually *** (2003, Hugh Grant, Martine McCutcheon, Liam Neeson, Keira Knightley, Laura Linney, Rowan Atkinson, Colin Firth, Alan Rickman, Emma Thompson, Bill Nighy) – Classic Movie Review 369

The British Prime Minister romancing his Downing Street tea lady? Yes actually! Clever writer-director Richard Curtis (Four Weddings) looks – with great affection and optimism – at the state of love in Britain in 2003, […]

Nov, 06

Le Jour se Leve [Daybreak] ***** (1939, Jean Gabin, Arletty, Jacqueline Laurent, Jules Berry) – Classic Movie Review 354

French maestro Marcel Carné’s 1939 masterwork is a moody, atmospheric, haunting romantic thriller. Jean Gabin stars as a nice ordinary factory worker Francois, who is holed up and barricaded in the furnished room of his garret, cornered […]

Nov, 03

Priest **** (1994, Linus Roache, Tom Wilkinson, Robert Carlyle) – Classic Movie Review 330

Director Antonia Bird’s outstanding 1994 drama about a young, idealistic priest, Father Greg Pilkington (Linus Roache), who is struggling between his Catholic calling and his homosexuality, is extremely moving, persuasive and thought provoking. Arriving in […]

Oct, 27

Stage Fright **** (1950, Marlene Dietrich, Jane Wyman, Richard Todd, Michael Wilding, Alastair Sim, Sybil Thorndike, Kay Walsh, Patricia Hitchcock) – Classic Movie Review 326

Alfred Hitchcock recalls his 1950 British thriller film Stage Fright: ‘Several of the reviewers mentioned Selwyn Jepson’s novel Man Running might make a good Hitchcock picture and I, like an idiot, believed them.’ ‘Love held […]

Oct, 26

Shakespeare in Love ***** (1998, Gwyneth Paltrow, Joseph Fiennes, Geoffrey Rush) – Classic Movie Review 291

Written by Tom Stoppard and Marc Norman, and directed by John Madden, the delightful, carefree 1998 fantasy romantic comedy Shakespeare in Love is jam packed with amusing puns and clever play-on-words. It is spun around […]

Oct, 17

Jules et Jim ***** (1962, Jeanne Moreau, Oskar Werner, Henri Serre) – Classic Movie Review 290

It takes three to tango, apparently. For his brilliant third feature, filmed in 1961 and first shown in Paris in 1962, director Francois Truffaut turns to the lyrical look at love that he was to […]

Oct, 15

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