Derek Winnert

Posts Tagged "Holocaust"

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Shoah ***** (1985, Simon Srebnik, Michael Podchlebnik, Motke Zaïdl, Itzhak Dugin, Richard Glazar, Paula Biren, Helena Pietyra, Pan Filipowicz, Pan Falborski)- Classic Movie Review 7255

French writer-director Claude Lanzmann’s exhaustive 1985 nine-hour, 26-minute documentary on the holocaust, Shoah, is put together by director Lanzmann from more than 350 hours of filmed interviews with survivors, guards and witnesses. Shoah is the Hebrew […]

Jul, 06

Denial **** (2016, Rachel Weisz, Tom Wilkinson, Timothy Spall, Andrew Scott) – Movie Review

Strapping on a New York Queen’s district accent courtesy her dialogue coach, Rachel Weisz is ideal as Jewish American historian Deborah Lipstadt, who comes to London’s Old Bailey to defend herself when British historian David […]

Jan, 27

Sophie’s Choice **** (1982, Meryl Streep, Kevin Kline, Peter MacNicol, Rita Karin, Josh Mostel) – Classic Movie Review 4498

Writer-producer-director Alan J Pakula’s quietly devastating 1982 film, faithfully adapted from the bestselling novel by William Styron, stars Meryl  Streep, who won a Best Actress Oscar as Sophie, the enigmatic Polish survivor of Nazi concentration […]

Oct, 21

Son of Saul [Saul fia] ***** (2015, Géza Röhrig, Levente Molnár, Urs Rechn) – Movie Review

Hungary-born László Nemes’s shatteringly horrific Auschwitz drama Son of Saul [Saul fia] won the 2016 Oscar and Golden Globe for Best Foreign Language Film, as well as the FIPRESCI Prize and Grand Jury Prize at the […]

Apr, 28

The Stranger **** (1946, Edward G Robinson, Orson Welles, Loretta Young) – Classic Movie Review 1680

Director/star Orson Welles’s third movie after Citizen Kane and The Magnificent Ambersons is a less ambitious genre piece, but his underrated 1946 paranoia film noir thriller The Stranger is a darkly glowing little gem. An […]

Sep, 16

Apt Pupil **** (1998, Ian McKellen, Brad Renfro, Joshua Jackson) – Classic Movie Review 717

The 16-year-old Brad Renfro stars as teenager Todd Bowden, who suspects his neighbour Arthur Denker (played by Ian McKellen) of being a Nazi war criminal called Kurt Dussander. The lad starts a blackmail campaign against […]

Jan, 18

Twelve Monkeys [12 Monkeys] ***** (1995, Bruce Willis, Madeleine Stowe, Brad Pitt, Frank Gorshin, Christopher Plummer, Jon Seda) – Classic Movie Review 689

‘Between the past and the future, sanity and madness, dreams and reality lies the mystery of the Twelve Monkeys.’ Bruce Willis, Madeleine Stowe and Brad Pitt kick up a storm in director Terry Gilliam’s dazzling-looking, […]

Jan, 18

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