Derek Winnert

Posts Tagged "1930s"

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Café Society **** (2016, Jesse Eisenberg, Kristen Stewart, Steve Carell, Blake Lively, Jeannie Berlin, Ken Stott) – Movie Review

The 80-year-old Woody Allen conjures up one of his better movies in 2016, a charming, sparkling bitter-sweet romantic comedy, with a retro 30s both coasts setting that gives him plenty of chance to show off his […]

Aug, 30

Julia ***** (1977, Jane Fonda, Vanessa Redgrave, Jason Robards, Maximilian Schell, Hal Holbrook, Rosemary Murphy, Meryl Streep) – Classic Movie Review 4051

Those three fine actors Jane Fonda, Vanessa Redgrave and Jason Robards eagerly grab their chances to shine in director Fred Zinnemann’s handsome 1977 film of author/ playwright Lillian Hellman’s story Pentimento, her memoir of her […]

Jul, 19

Zelig *** (1983, Woody Allen, Mia Farrow) – Classic Movie Review 3958

Writer-director Woody Allen’s 1983 comedy is a smartly conceived but clumsily developed and largely unfunny fictional spoof documentary, or mockumentary, about a human chameleon nobody called Leonard Zelig (Allen). Zelig becomes a celebrity through being able […]

Jul, 01

Despair [Eine Reise ins Licht] *** (1978, Dirk Bogarde, Andréa Ferréol, Klaus Löwitsch, Volker Spengler) – Classic Movie Review 3,950

Dirk Bogarde stars in German director Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s 1978 English-language film Despair [Eine Reise ins Licht] about Hermann Hermann, a 1930s Russian immigrant chocolate magnate businessman in Germany who begins to fall apart and […]

Jun, 29

Topper ***** (1937, Cary Grant, Constance Bennett, Roland Young, Billie Burke, Alan Mowbray, Eugene Pallette) – Classic Movie Review 3671

Norman Z McLeod directs the sparkling 1937 vintage supernatural fantasy comedy classic Topper brightly, expertly and quite delicately and delightfully, with the help of a delicious screenplay by Jack Jevne, Eric Hatch and Eddie Moran, […]

May, 07

Richard III **** (1995, Ian McKellen, Annette Bening, Jim Broadbent, Maggie Smith, Robert Downey Jr, Nigel Hawthorne) – Classic Movie Review 3645

Director Richard Loncraine’s 1995 Shakespeare movie gives Ian McKellen a showcase where he dazzlingly re-creates his stage performance as the mad English monarch Richard III, fired by vaulting ambition, hate and revenge on humankind for […]

May, 02

Public Enemies **** (2009, Johnny Depp, Christian Bale, Billy Crudup, David Wenham, Marion Cotillard, Stephen Graham, Stephen Lang, Channing Tatum, Giovanni Ribisi, Stephen Dorff) – Classic Movie Review 3353

Twinkling with dangerous devil-may-care charm, Johnny Depp impresses as public enemy number one John Dillinger in Michael Mann’s heart-pounding 2009 epic biopic of the Depression-era bank robber who became a celebrity criminal and number one […]

Feb, 13

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