Derek Winnert

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La Notte [The Night] ***** (1961, Jeanne Moreau, Marcello Mastroianni, Monica Vitti, Bernhard Wicki, Giorgio Negro, Vincenzo Corbella) – Classic Movie Review 2838

Antonioni entrances us with iconic Sixties actors and scenes from a dying marriage. This much-admired and long-recognised 1961 world cinema classic is one of co-writer/ director Michelangelo Antonioni’s acclaimed and brilliantly stylish Sixties studies in alienation. […]

Aug, 22

45 Years **** (2015, Charlotte Rampling, Tom Courtenay, Geraldine James) – Movie Review

Writer-director Andrew Haigh’s 45 Years is brilliant in its very English way, all intense, repressed and minimalist, quite Pinteresque really. Certainly it’s brilliantly acted: Charlotte Rampling and Tom Courtenay won the Best Actress and Best Actor Awards at the […]

Aug, 19

Sommersby **** (1993, Richard Gere, Jodie Foster, Bill Pullman) – Classic Movie Review 2817

Director Jon Amiel’s classy 1993 mystery romantic drama is a splendidly sumptuous, poignant film. Richard Gere and Jodie Foster give unexpectedly sturdy performances in the kind of movie they’re not usually associated with – the […]

Aug, 15

The Great Lie **** (1941, Bette Davis, George Brent, Mary Astor) – Classic Movie Review 2736

Director Edmund Goulding’s polished 1941 drama The Great Lie is another of the outstanding movies from the prime of Bette Davis, then reigning queen of the Warner Bros studio. The Great Lie is a great […]

Jul, 24

Moonstruck ***** (1987, Cher, Nicolas Cage, Olympia Dukakis, Danny Aiello, Vincent Gardenia, Feodor Chaliapin Jr, John Mahoney) – Classic Movie Review 2,724

Dean Martin warbles ‘When the moon hits your eye like a great pizza pie, that’s amore,’ over the opening titles and then we are off on producer-director Norman Jewison’s wonderfully warm, deliciously romantic 1987 hit […]

Jul, 20

Old Acquaintance **** (1943, Bette Davis, Miriam Hopkins, Gig Young) – Classic Movie Review 2,696

The polished 1943 comedy romantic drama film Old Acquaintance stars Bette Davis as Kit Marlowe and Miriam Hopkins as the bitchy Millie Drake. Davis said: ‘Miriam was her usual self. Director Vincent Sherman said he […]

Jul, 13

Clash by Night **** (1952, Barbara Stanwyck, Robert Ryan, Paul Douglas, Marilyn Monroe, Keith Andes, J Carrol Naish) – Classic Movie Review 2,597

Fritz Lang’s heated classic 1952 film noir melodrama Clash by Night, based on the Clifford Odets play, is rivetingly played by a great vintage cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Robert Ryan, Paul Douglas, Marilyn Monroe. Director Fritz […]

Jun, 14

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