Derek Winnert

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The Assisi Underground ** (1985, Ben Cross, James Mason, Irene Papas) – Classic Movie Review 10,263

Writer-director Alexander Ramati’s 1985 The Assisi Underground is a well-meaning, costly, but largely ineptly told wartime adventure about Catholic monks in Assisi (Perugia, Umbria, Italy) hiding Italian Jewish refugees from the Nazis in 1943 and […]

Sep, 04

Francofonia ***½ (2015, Louis-Do de Lencquesaing, Benjamin Utzerath, Vincent Nemeth, Johanna Korthals Altes, Aleksandr Sokurov) – Movie Review

Russian writer-director Aleksandr Sokurov’s self-consciously eccentric 2015 mix of documentary and drama is provocative and fascinating. Sometimes, it is well worth trying something out of your usual comfort zone. Sokurov fills the screen with some great ideas […]

Nov, 09

A Generation [Pokolenie] ***** (1955, Tadeusz Lomnicki, Urszula Modrzynska, Tadeusz Janczar, Roman Polanski, Zbigniew Cybulski) – Classic Movie Review 4470

Great director Andrzej Wajda makes his film debut with this striking 1955 drama about the Warsaw Resistance during the German occupation of Poland in World War Two and a group of youths who battle love and adversity […]

Oct, 10

Rome, Open City [Roma Città Aperta] ***** (1945, Anna Magnani, Aldo Fabrizi, Marcello Pagliero) – Classic Movie Review 869

Director Roberto Rossellini’s famous, great 1945 neo-realist classic Rome, Open City [Roma Città Aperta] focuses on a group of foolishly brave Italian resistance members, who try to oppose the sadistically evil occupying Nazi forces with […]

Mar, 05

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