Derek Winnert

Posts Tagged "F Scott Fitzgerald"

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Beloved Infidel ** (1959, Gregory Peck, Deborah Kerr, Eddie Albert) – Classic Movie Review 7562

Famed, all-time-great American author F Scott Fitzgerald’s last, struggling drink-sodden years as a 1930s pre-World War Two Hollywood scriptwriter, and his torrid affair with witty young English columnist Sheilah Graham while his wife Zelda is in an […]

Sep, 12

The Great Gatsby (1926, Warner Baxter, Lois Wilson) – Classic Movie Review 2629

Director Herbert Brenon’s original silent version of the great F Scott Fitzgerald novel of 1925 reportedly is enriched with captivating performances headed by Warner Baxter as the enigmatic, troubled Long Island millionaire Jay Gatsby, and Lois […]

Jun, 22

The Great Gatsby *** (1949, Alan Ladd, Betty Field, Macdonald Carey, Ruth Hussey, Barry Sullivan, Shelley Winters, Howard Da Silva) – Classic Movie Review 2628

Not a lot of people know this. There were already two movie versions of the F Scott Fitzgerald classic novel even before Robert Redford played Jay Gatsby in 1974 and long before Leonard DiCaprio played […]

Jun, 22

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button **** (2008, Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett, Tilda Swinton, Julia Ormond, Jason Flemyng, Elias Koteas) – Classic Movie Review 589

‘I was born under unusual circumstances.’ Weird and wonderful – or crashing bore? Director David Fincher’s 2008 movie The Curious Case of Benjamin Button is perhaps all three. Brad Pitt lands a dream role as […]

Dec, 28

The Great Gatsby *** (2013, Leonardo DiCaprio, Carey Mulligan, Joel Edgerton) – Movie Review

F Scott Fitzgerald’s delicate, wispy, thin little thing of a novel, The Great Gatsby has become a ridiculously overblown movie, all fake-looking CGI, nervous performances, restless direction and jittery fast cutting. With enough story for […]

May, 19

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