Derek Winnert

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The Sundowners **** (1960, Robert Mitchum, Deborah Kerr, Glynis Johns, Peter Ustinov, Michael Anderson Jr, Dina Merrill, Mervyn Johns) – Classic Movie Review 6165

Director Fred Zinnemann’s likeable, high, wide and handsome 1960 Australian adventure film stars Robert Mitchum and Deborah Kerr as an early 20th century Outback sheep herder/ drover and his wife. They argue about whether their nomadic Carmody […]

Oct, 31

The Tree of Wooden Clogs [L’Albero Degli Zoccoli] ***** (1978, Luigi Ornaghi, Francesca Moriggi, Omar Brignoli) – Classic Movie Review 6156

‘We invite you to visit a time and place when life was still a sacred matter.’ Italian movie master Ermanno Olmi writes, photographs, edits and directs this rigorous, realistic and majestic 1978 historical film drama […]

Oct, 30

Near Dark **** (1987, Adrian Pasdar, Jenny Wright, Lance Henriksen, Bill Paxton, Jenette Goldstein) – Classic Movie Review 6039

Director Kathryn Bigelow’s 1987 horror movie sees a gang of southern vampires wandering from state to state in their camper van, murdering as they go. But then US mid-west farm country boy Caleb Colton (Adrian Pasdar) […]

Sep, 24

The Widow Couderc [La veuve Couderc] **** (1971, Alain Delon, Simone Signoret, Ottavia Piccolo, Jean Tissier, Monique Chaumette) – Classic Movie Review 5551

Alain Delon and Simone Signoret are outstanding in co-writer/ director Pierre Granier-Deferre‘s excellent 1971 French drama film adaptation of the 1942 Georges Simenon novel The Widow Couderc [La veuve Couderc]. As a drama, it is more […]

Jun, 04

Test Pilot **** (1938, Clark Gable, Spencer Tracy, Myrna Loy, Lionel Barrymore) – Classic Movie Review 5481

Director Victor Fleming’s thrilling and splendidly romantic 1938 aviation adventure tale of machismo in the air, and romance and comedy on the ground is delivered with all of the vintage MGM studio’s polish and know-how. […]

May, 19

The Levelling ** (2016, Ellie Kendrick, David Troughton, Jack Holden) – Movie Review

Ellie Kendrick stars as gloomy estranged daughter Clover Catto, who responds reluctantly to a phone call telling her that her younger brother Harry (Joe Blakemore) is dead. She returns to her Somerset family farm and faces up […]

May, 12

Beloved *** (1998, Oprah Winfrey, Danny Glover, Thandie Newton) – Classic Movie Review 5355

Oprah Winfrey gives up the talk show day job to be producer-star of her pet project, a lavish and reverentially handled, but ponderously achieved 1998 film version of Toni Morrison’s 1987 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel Beloved. […]

Apr, 28

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