Derek Winnert

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Reflections in a Golden Eye *** (1967, Elizabeth Taylor, Marlon Brando, Brian Keith, Julie Harris, Robert Forster) – Classic Movie Review 7185

Director John Huston’s salacious and compulsive but awkward 1967 high heat Deep South melodrama Reflections in a Golden Eye is based on the Carson McCullers novel and boasts the right cast on compelling form, particularly […]

Jun, 17

McQueen *** (2018, Alexander McQueen) – Movie Review

Directors Ian Bonhôte and Peter Ettedgui’s documentary about the life of designer Alexander McQueen is exhaustive and exhausting. It is fascinating and commendable, but a bit of a hard-going long haul in the cinema at 111 minutes, […]

Jun, 08

Lawless Heart **** (2001, Douglas Henshall, Tom Hollander, Bill Nighy) – Classic Movie Review 7132

Three men take stock of their lives after the death of a gay restaurateur friend in writer-directors Tom Hunsiger and Neil Hunter’s 2001 British intersecting stories film Lawless Heart. The acclaimed, extremely well-acted and very carefully […]

Jun, 08

Love, Simon **** (2018, Nick Robinson, Jennifer Garner, Josh Duhamel) – Movie Review

‘Dear Moviegoers, Please form a line at concessions. It doesn’t have to be straight. Love, Simon.’ Here’s to you, Mr Robinson. Can a whole movie hang on its hero’s smile and charm? Yes, apparently it can. Nick […]

Mar, 30

The Last of England **** (1987, Tilda Swinton, Spencer Leigh, ‘Spring’ Mark Adley) – Classic Movie Review 6496

Director Derek Jarman’s 1987 British renaissance experimental film provides a furious personal broadside, using the sometimes modest means at his disposal – old home movies and Super-8, as well as disturbing scenes of crumbling inner-city […]

Dec, 30

Wittgenstein ***½ (1993, Karl Johnson, Michael Gough, Tilda Swinton, Clancy Chassay, John Quentin) – Classic Movie Review 6495

Director Derek Jarman’s 1993 film is a lively, humorous portrait of the gay Viennese-born, Cambridge-educated philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951), one of the most influential philosophers of the 20th-century, exploring his life, works and key ideas. They […]

Dec, 30

War Requiem **** (1989, Nathaniel Parker, Tilda Swinton, Laurence Olivier, Patricia Hayes) – Classic Movie Review 6483

Writer-director Derek Jarman’s 1989 film is a magnificent visual interpretation of Benjamin Britten’s 1962 ‘War Requiem’ and evocation of the life and death in the trenches of the World War One poet Wilfred Owen. There […]

Dec, 28

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