Derek Winnert

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First Love [Erste Liebe] *** (1970, Maximilian Schell, Dominique Sanda, John Moulder-Brown) – Classic Movie Review 12,270

Director Maximilian Schell’s 1970 tragic love story film First Love [Erste Liebe] is based on Ivan Turgenev’s 1860 novella Pervaya lyubov. The film is written, directed, produced and starred in by Austrian director Maximilian Schell, and stars […]

Aug, 04

Call Me by Your Name ***** (2017, Armie Hammer, Timothée Chalamet, Michael Stuhlbarg, Amira Casar, Esther Garrel) – Movie Review

Director Luca Guadagnino’s gloriously, unashamedly, outrageously romantic gay movie coming-of-age tale of first love Call Me by Your Name is based on André Aciman’s acclaimed debut novel published in 2007. This is one heck of […]

Oct, 09

Baby It’s You **** (1982, Rosanna Arquette, Vincent Spano, Joanna Merlin) – Classic Movie Review 5211

Writer-director John Sayles’s 1982 romantic comedy drama is an extremely pleasing 1960s-set high school story about two mismatched lovers – an Italian boy with serious clothes an an attitude problem and the pretty Jewish schoolgirl […]

Mar, 28

Jeremy **** (1973, Robby Benson, Glynnis O’Connor) – Classic Movie Review 3705

Writer-director Arthur Barron’s 1973 romance teams Robby Benson and Glynnis O’Connor in this tender, bitter-sweet tale of first-time love. Benson stars as a shy young New York cellist student called Jeremy, who meets and romances upper-class aspiring teenage […]

May, 14

I Capture the Castle ** (2002, Romola Garai, Rose Byrne, Bill Nighy, Tara Fitzgerald, Henry Cavill, Henry Thomas, Marc Blucas) – Classic Movie Review 3009

Alas, Dodie Smith’s distinguished novel makes a disappointing, bloodless love story and coming-of-age movie, set in England in the Thirties. Romola Garai stars as young gel, 17-year-old Cassandra Mortmain, in and out of love against […]

Oct, 24

Endless Love ** (1981, Brooke Shields, Martin Hewitt, Shirley Knight, Don Murray) – Classic Movie Review 735

Endless Love was advertised as ‘the greatest love story of all time’. But posh Italian director Franco Zeffirelli turns Scott Spencer’s novel about 17-year-old American high school student David Axelrod (Martin Hewitt)’s obsessive love for 15-year-old […]

Jan, 23

American Pie **** (1999, Jason Biggs, Chris Klein, Seann William Scott, Thomas Ian Nicholas, Eddie Kaye Thomas, Eugene Levy, Jennifer Coolidge) – Classic Movie Review 260

‘Dude, that chick’s a MILF!’ Directors Paul and Chris Weitz’s infamous 1999 teen gross-out sex comedy, written by Adam Herz, is always delightful and amusing, often astoundingly funny and sometimes hysterical. It is one of […]

Sep, 30

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