Derek Winnert

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Lift to the Scaffold [Ascenseur pour l’échafaud] ***** (1958, Jeanne Moreau, Maurice Ronet, Georges Poujouly, Lino Ventura) – Classic Movie Review 544

Director Louis Malle’s 1958 debut feature Ascenseur pour l’échafaud [Lift to the Scaffold] [Elevator to the Gallows] is a brilliant, haunting and complex film noir thriller. It made an international star of the 30-year-old Jeanne […]

Dec, 18

The African Queen ***** (1951, Humphrey Bogart, Katharine Hepburn, Robert Morley, Peter Bull) – Classic Movie Review 327

Humphrey Bogart and Katharine Hepburn lighting electric sparks off each other on screen together is the main attraction of the enchanting 1951 British-American romantic adventure drama movie The African Queen. Along with their stupendous star […]

Oct, 26

Jules et Jim ***** (1962, Jeanne Moreau, Oskar Werner, Henri Serre) – Classic Movie Review 290

It takes three to tango, apparently. For his brilliant third feature, filmed in 1961 and first shown in Paris in 1962, director Francois Truffaut turns to the lyrical look at love that he was to […]

Oct, 15

Lifeboat **** (1944, Tallulah Bankhead, William Bendix, Walter Slezak, Mary Anderson, John Hodiak) – Classic Movie Review 273

Alfred Hitchcock said of his 1944 wartime thriller film Lifeboat: ‘I never let that camera get outside the lifeboat. The technical challenge was enormous. Of course Tallulah Bankhead dominated the whole film.’ Alfred Hitchcock’s 1944 […]

Oct, 06

Notorious ***** (1946, Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman, Claude Rains, Leopoldine Konstantin, Louis Calhern) – Classic Movie Review 233

Alfred Hitchcock’s 1946 end-of-the-war film noir masterpiece Notorious is one of his finest, most seductive movies. It is a devious twisted love story as much as a thrilling spy story. It all starts with a brilliant, masterly […]

Sep, 09

Schindler’s List ***** (1995, Liam Neeson, Ben Kingsley, Ralph Fiennes) – Classic Film Review 80

With a total of 12 nominations, Schindler’s List won seven Oscars in 1995, including best picture, director, adapted screenplay, cinematography, editing, original score and art direction. After three nominations, Hollywood’s greatest living storyteller Steven Spielberg […]

Jul, 22

Casablanca ***** (1942, Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Paul Henreid, Claude Rains, Sydney Greenstreet, Conrad Veidt, Peter Lorre, S Z Sakall, Dooley Wilson, Leonid Kinskey, Marcel Dalio, Madeleine Lebeau) – Classic Movie Review 1

You must remember this: arguably, the world’s best loved film and most perfect piece of cinema escapism. It didn’t look like it would amount to a hill of beans in this crazy world when Warner […]

Jun, 22

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