Derek Winnert

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Cronaca di un amore [Story of a Love Affair] **** (1950, Lucia Bosé, Massimo Girotti, Ferdinando Sarmi, Gino Rossi) – Classic Movie Review 6282

Michelangelo Antonioni’s hugely promising and satisfying 1950 romantic crime drama Cronaca di un amore [Story of a Love Affair] is his first full-length feature film, after making highly regarded documentaries, and stars Massimo Girotti (as […]

Nov, 22

The Marriage of Maria Braun [Die Ehe der Maria Braun] ***** (1979, Hanna Schygulla, Klaus Löwitsch, Ivan Desny) – Classic Movie Review 6184

Co-writer/ producer/ director Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s polished 1979 German gem The Marriage of Maria Braun won Hanna Schygulla the Best Actress award at the Berlin Film Festival in 1979 for her startling, eye-opening performance as […]

Nov, 03

The Burned Barns [Les granges brûlées] *** (1973, Simone Signoret, Alain Delon, Paul Crauchet) – Classic Movie Review 5550

Co-writer/ director Jean Chapot’s 1973 French whodunit thriller puts infidelity, guilty secrets and family discords right to the forefront of its agenda. The setting is a large, lonely snowbound farm house, and, when a brutal […]

Jun, 04

Something To Talk About *** (1995, Robert Duvall, Gena Rowlands, Julia Roberts, Dennis Quaid, Kyra Sedgwick) – Classic Movie Review 4986

Director Lasse Hallstrom’s exceptional, appealing 1995 domestic comedy drama about the affairs of a rich family in the American South really is something to talk about tomorrow with your friends or in the workplace. Robert Duvall […]

Feb, 03

Love Lessons [Lust och fägring stor] *** (1995, Johan Widerberg, Marika Lagercrantz, Tomas von Brümssen, Karin Huldt, Nina Gunke) – Classic Movie Review 4571

This sexy 1995 Swedish rites-of-passage erotic drama film outing comes from writer-director Bo Widerberg, with nepotism working well in the form of director’s son Johan Widerberg as Stig, a 15-year old schoolboy aroused by his 37-year old […]

Oct, 31

Model Shop **** (1969, Gary Lockwood, Anouk Aimée, Alexandra Hay) – Classic Movie Review 4302

French director Jacques Demy’s first film made in America and in English is hypnotically compelling and shamefully underrated. Gary Lockwood from 2001 stars here in 1969 as George Matthews, an alienated mid-20s designer who has […]

Sep, 05

The Best Years of Our Lives ***** (1946, Fredric March, Dana Andrews, Myrna Loy, Teresa Wright, Virginia Mayo, Cathy O’Donnell, Hoagy Carmichael, Harold Russell, Gladys George) – Classic Movie Review 2437

Director William Wyler’s 1946 triumph The Best Years of Our Lives won seven Oscars including Best Picture. It also won the 1947 Golden Globe for Best Motion Picture and the 1948 BAFTA Film Award for […]

Apr, 30

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