Derek Winnert

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The Champ *** (1931, Wallace Beery, Jackie Cooper, Irene Rich, Roscoe Ates) – Classic Movie Review 8640

Wallace Beery won a Best Actor in a Leading Role Oscar (shared with Fredric March in Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde) and Frances Marion won for Best Original Story for director King Vidor’s 1931 tearjerker […]

Jun, 25

The Eyes, the Mouth [Gli Occhi, la Bocca] ** (1982, Lou Castel, Ángela Molina, Emmanuelle Riva) – Classic Movie Review 8377

Writer-director Marco Bellocchio’s interesting if rather disappointing 1982 drama The Eyes, The Mouth [Gli Occhi, la Bocca] reunites the star (Lou Castel) and the director of the 1965 Fists in the Pocket (which the actor […]

Apr, 18

Tank Malling ** (1989, Ray Winstone, Jason Connery, Amanda Donohoe, Glen Murphy, Marsha A Hunt, Peter Wyngarde) – Classic Movie Review 6589

Ray Winstone stars in Tank Malling as investigative reporter John ‘Tank’ Malling, who is approached by a classy hooker called Helen (Amanda Donohoe) with the low-down on a politician, Sir Robert Knight (Peter Wyngarde), and […]

Jan, 21

Blue Skies ***½ (1946, Fred Astaire, Bing Crosby, Joan Caulfield) – Classic Movie Review 4365

Fred Astaire and Bing Crosby both pursue Joan Caulfield in Paramount’s likeable, if run-of-the-mill 1946 Technicolor backstage musical Blue Skies, lifted up high by 22 Irving Berlin songs. Everyone who loves vintage musicals will be in […]

Sep, 14

Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars **** (1973, David Bowie, Mick Ronson, Trevor Bolder) – Classic Movie Review 3672

Director D A Pennebaker’s indispensable 1973 British music documentary is a hunky-dory cinema verité film of David Bowie’s farewell performances as the androgynous Ziggy Stardust. The film takes all those who want to relive the […]

May, 07

De-Lovely *** (2004, Kevin Kline, Ashley Judd, Jonathan Pryce, Allan Corduner, Peter Polycarpou, Keith Allen) – Classic Movie Review 3089

Kevin Kline stars as gay composer Cole Porter, who reviews his career and life with his understanding wife, Linda (Ashley Judd) in director Irwin Winkler’s dramatically intriguing, highly tuneful musical biopic. Both stars give supremely stylish […]

Nov, 24

One Hour Photo **** (2002, Robin Williams) – Classic Movie Review 704

Writer-director Mark Romanek’s eerie, flesh-tingling 2002 thriller is a first rate tension ride. It is, exactly as it was intended, uniquely disturbing and deeply unsettling. After Insomnia, Robin Williams gives another brilliant non-comedy performance as a […]

Jan, 15

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