Derek Winnert

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We Think the World of You *** (1988, Alan Bates, Gary Oldman, Liz Smith, Max Wall) – Classic Movie Review 9944

Director Colin Gregg’s provocative 1988 British comedy drama We Think the World of You stars Alan Bates and Gary Oldman. J R Ackerley’s moving novel about a middle-aged gay man, Frank Meadows, and his loving […]

Jun, 21

Serenade ** (1956, Mario Lanza, Joan Fontaine, Sara Montiel, Vincent Price) – Classic Movie Review 9764

James M Cain’s dark and gritty 1937 thriller source novel Serenade is emasculated to produce a standard soapy Hollywood musical tale of a poor vineyard worker Damon Vincenti (Mario Lanza) rising to operatic success via […]

May, 14

The Maids ** (1975, Glenda Jackson, Susannah York, Vivien Merchant, Mark Burns) – Classic Movie Review 9561

Glenda Jackson and Susannah York enjoy an unusual opportunity chewing up Jean Genet’s strange dialogue in director Christopher Miles’s powerful 1975 film version of his flamboyant play The Maids. Black humour lightens up a dark […]

Mar, 25

A Bigger Splash **** (1973, David Hockney, Peter Schlesinger, Celia Birtwell) – Classic Movie Review 9509

Director Jack Hazan’s 1974 A Bigger Splash is a fascinating and insightful, though chaotically assembled semi-fictionalized documentary drama biopic on the life of the British painter David Hockney and the story behind one of his […]

Mar, 15

Tell Me That You Love Me, Junie Moon **** (1970, Liza Minnelli, Ken Howard, Robert Moore, Kay Thompson, Leonard Frey, James Coco, Wayne Tippit, Guy Sorel) – Classic Movie Review 9473

Director Otto Preminger tugs determinedly at the heartstrings, and, despite the odd slip into sentimentality and plot contrivance, gets through to the target in his beguilingly sweet and sensitive 1970 drama Tell Me That You […]

Mar, 07

Colonel Redl [Oberst Redl] **** (1985, Klaus Maria Brandauer, Hans Christian Blech, Armin Mueller-Stahl) – Classic Movie Review 9344

Hungarian director István Szabó’s 1985 Colonel Redl [Oberst Redl] [Redl Ezredes] is a startlingly powerful film of a subject already familiar from John Osborne’s stage play A Patriot for Me, with a clever screenplay based […]

Feb, 03

Brideshead Revisited ***** (1981, Jeremy Irons, Anthony Andrews, Diana Quick, Claire Bloom, Laurence Olivier, John Gielgud) – Classic Movie Review 9289

Directors Charles Sturridge and Michael Lindsay-Hogg’s monumental and magnificent 1981 Brideshead Revisited is Granada Television’s sumptuous adaptation of Evelyn Waugh’s novel about England’s decadent and declining upper-class between the world wars, made in 11 episodes. […]

Jan, 22

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