Derek Winnert

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The Woman in White **** (1948, Eleanor Parker, Sydney Greenstreet, Gig Young, Alexis Smith, Agnes Moorehead) – Classic Movie Review 2175

Director Peter Godfrey’s 1948 film version of Wilkie Collins’s famous classic Gothic novel The Woman in White is a rich and thoroughly enjoyable entertainment. At its centre, Sydney Greenstreet gives an enormously compelling, masterly villainous […]

Feb, 13

Cookie’s Fortune *** (1999, Glenn Close, Julianne Moore, Liv Tyler, Chris O’Donnell) – Classic Movie Review 1594

Welcome to Holly Springs, Mississippi… home of murder, mayhem and catfish enchiladas. Director Robert Altman is in surprisingly blunt, indulgent and benign mood produces a slack, hollow-centred 1999 comedy thriller film that’s fairly amusing, enjoyable […]

Aug, 25

Arthur *** (1981, Dudley Moore, Liza Minnelli, John Gielgud) – Classic Movie Review 1296

Writer-director Steve Gordon’s 1981 double Oscar-winning classic comedy film Arthur provided a second huge hit for Dudley Moore after his turn in Blake Edwards’s 1979 film 10, this time as Arthur Bach, a drunken New […]

Jun, 06

Rich and Strange ** (1931, Henry Kendall, Joan Barry, Percy Marmont) – Classic Movie Review 460

This 1931 Alfred Hitchcock early sound film is surprisingly obvious, thin and conservative-minded, so it is a bit of a bad surprise from this director. It plays like a Victorian melodrama with a moral and […]

Nov, 30

Sense and Sensibility ***** (1995, Emma Thompson, Kate Winslet, James Fleet, Tom Wilkinson, Harriet Walter, Alan Rickman, Greg Wise, Gemma Jones, Elizabeth Spriggs, Robert Hardy) – Classic Film Review 440

Director Ang Lee’s 1995 film was another triumph for him, both critically and at the box office, as well as at awards time. It won the Golden Globe for Best Motion Picture and the Bafta […]

Nov, 23

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