Derek Winnert

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The Cabinet of Dr Caligari ***** (1920, Werner Krauss, Conrad Veidt, Lil Dagover) – Classic Movie Review 1,574

Robert Wiene’s legendary 1920 German silent horror film masterpiece The Cabinet of Dr Caligari stars Werner Krauss as the mad magician Dr Caligari, who hypnotises his tame somnambulist Cesare (Conrad Veidt) to carry out a series […]

Aug, 22

Detour ***** (1945, Tom Neal, Ann Savage, Claudia Drake, Edmund MacDonald) – Classic Movie Review 1547

‘Fate or some mysterious force can put the finger on you or on me for no good reason at all.’ Edgar G Ulmer’s all-time great, flashback-driven 1945 film noir thriller Detour is a deservedly celebrated […]

Aug, 15

Chariots of Fire ***** (1981, Ben Cross, Ian Charleson, Ian Holm, Nigel Havers, Nicholas Farrell, John Gielgud, Lindsay Anderson) – Classic Movie Review 1399

Director Hugh Hudson’s four-Oscar-winning 1981 triumph Chariots of Fire tells the real-life story of two athletes, Scottish missionary Eric Liddell and Jewish Cambridge University undergraduate Harold Abrahams, who ran for Britain in the 1924 Olympics. […]

Jul, 06

Felicia’s Journey ** (1999, Bob Hoskins) – Classic Movie Review 1317

Director Atom Egoyan’s 1999 psycho-thriller tells the rather depressing and sordid little tale of a lonely middle-aged catering manager named Joe Hilditch (Bob Hoskins), who picks up and befriends an Irish teenage girl called Felicia (Elaine […]

Jun, 13

Providence **** (1977, Dirk Bogarde, Ellen Burstyn, John Gielgud, David Warner, Elaine Stritch) – Classic Movie Review 1314

Director Alain Resnais’s lovingly crafted 1977 drama was his first English-language film. It’s a total treat for the discerning. The great and good John Gielgud steals the acting honours even from Dirk Bogarde, Ellen Burstyn, […]

Jun, 11

Secondhand Lions **** (2003, Haley Joel Osment, Michael Caine, Robert Duvall, Kyra Sedgwick) – Classic Movie Review 1166

Writer-director Tim McCanlies’s 2003 Walt Disney movie stars The Sixth Sense’s Haley Joel Osment, who is superb as introverted young Walter, a kid sent off by his mom to live with his eccentric, story-telling great […]

May, 02

Panic ***½ (2000, William H Macy, Neve Campbell, John Ritter, Donald Sutherland, Tracey Ullman) – Classic Movie Review 1085

Writer-director Henry Bromell’s low-budget ($1 million) 2000 movie stars William H Macy as mournful married middle-aged hit-man Alex, who gets into a panic when he falls for 20something hair-stylist Sarah (Neve Campbell). He goes into […]

Apr, 14

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