Derek Winnert

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Au-delà des grilles [Le mura di Malapaga] [The Walls of Malapaga] **** (1949, Jean Gabin, Isa Miranda, Vera Talchi) – Classic Movie Review 9673

War-torn Italian slums in Genoa provide a stable background for director René Clément’s moving depiction of a tragic encounter between Pierre Arrignon (Jean Gabin), a French fugitive killer pursued by the law, and a frustrated […]

Apr, 24

Men Don’t Leave **** (1990, Jessica Lange, Kathy Bates, Arliss Howard, Joan Cusack, Tom Mason, Chris O’Donnell, Charlie Korsmo) – Classic Movie Review 8772

Director Paul Brickman’s 1989 Men Don’t Leave stars Jessica Lange as Beth Macauley, who is having a terrible time. First her loving husband dies, then she has to sell her house, she loses her job, […]

Jul, 29

Starting Over **** (1979, Burt Reynolds, Jill Clayburgh, Candice Bergen) – Classic Movie Review 7024

Director Alan J Pakula’s charming 1979 comedy-romance effectively casts Burt Reynolds as Phil Potter, the romantically inclined divorced writer who falls in love but finds he cannot choose between sweet teacher Marilyn Holmberg (Jill Clayburgh) […]

May, 09

Mother *** (1996, Debbie Reynolds, Albert Brooks) – Classic Movie Review 1423

Debbie Reynolds is ideally cast as Beatrice Henderson, the mother from hell in star/co-writer/director Albert Brooks’s entertaining 1996 comedy. She has a successful but middle-aged science fiction writer son (Brooks), who moves back in to live […]

Jul, 13

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