Derek Winnert

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Wonder Wheel **** (2017, Kate Winslet, Justin Timberlake, Jim Belushi, Juno Temple) – Movie Review

Writer-director Woody Allen’s 2017 Wonder Wheel is a dark, bleak masterwork, a late gem from the troubled film-maker, in the vein of his Blue Jasmine. I think I counted one attempt at joke in the entire […]

Mar, 11

La Ronde ***** (1950, Anton Walbrook, Simone Signoret, Serge Reggiani, Simone Simon, Daniel Gélin, Danielle Darrieux, Fernand Gravey) – Classic Movie Review 4305

Co-writer/ director Max Ophüls’s 1950 film masterwork is a brilliantly plush, atmospheric and marvellously performed adaptation of the classic Arthur Schnitzler play. It is set in a hauntingly atmospheric Vienna in 1900, and is told […]

Sep, 05

Liliom **** (1934, Charles Boyer, Madeleine Ozeray, Robert Arnoux) – Classic Movie Review 3423

Ferenc Molnár’s play is beautifully remade in France by Fritz Lang, only four years after Frank Borzage’s 1930 film with Charles Farrell and Rose Hobart. The young Charles Boyer is ideal as the Budapest carnival […]

Feb, 28

Carousel ***** (1956, Gordon MacRae, Shirley Jones, Cameron Mitchell) – Classic Movie Review 2,192

The vivacious vintage 1956 musical film Carousel stars Gordon MacRae and Shirley Jones, who act and sing their socks off as the layabout carnival barker Billy Bigelow and Julie Jordan, the shy young woman he […]

Feb, 19

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