Derek Winnert

Posts Tagged "Italy"

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Three Coins in the Fountain *** (1954, Clifton Webb, Dorothy McGuire, Jean Peters, Louis Jourdan, Maggie McNamara, Rossano Brazzi) – Classic Movie Review 6697

Director Jean Negulesco knows how to make this double Oscar-winning 1954 romantic drama sweet and sentimental, and that is fine, but fortunately Clifton Webb and Dorothy McGuire are also able to inject a bit of […]

Feb, 16

Stromboli [Stromboli, Terra di Dio] **** (1949, Ingrid Bergman, Mario Vitale, Renzo Cesana) – Classic Movie Review 6522

Producer-director Roberto Rossellini’s beautiful, brooding and delicately done 1949 Italian neo-realist film tells his story about an attractive Lithuanian refugee called Karen (Ingrid Bergman) who marries a young Italian fisherman named Antonio (Mario Vitale) to escape […]

Jan, 05

Anzio [Lo sbarco di Anzio] ** (1968, Robert Mitchum, Peter Falk, Robert Ryan, Earl Holliman, Mark Damon) – Classic Movie Review 6448

The exciting star cast of Robert Mitchum, Peter Falk, Arthur Kennedy and Robert Ryan, and a lavish production spearhead director Edward Dmytryk’s 1968 movie attack on the World War Two story of the allied invasion […]

Dec, 21

The Glass Mountain **** (1949, Michael Denison, Dulcie Gray, Valentina Cortese, Tito Gobbi, Sebastian Shaw) – Classic Movie Review 6275

Director Henry Cass’s poignant popular 1949 love story romantic drama stars Michael Denison as the married English composer Richard Wilder, who is moved to write an opera by two of Italy’s greatest delights – the […]

Nov, 20

The Tree of Wooden Clogs [L’Albero Degli Zoccoli] ***** (1978, Luigi Ornaghi, Francesca Moriggi, Omar Brignoli) – Classic Movie Review 6156

‘We invite you to visit a time and place when life was still a sacred matter.’ Italian movie master Ermanno Olmi writes, photographs, edits and directs this rigorous, realistic and majestic 1978 historical film drama […]

Oct, 30

Umberto D ***** (1952, Carlo Battisti, Maria-Pia Casilio, Lina Gennari, Ileana Simova, Elena Rea) – Classic Movie Review 6150

Co-writer/ director Vittorio De Sica’s classic 1952 humanist, neo-realist drama movie is commandingly shot on location in Rome by the Italian maestro in his prime, though also in the studio at Rome’s Cinecittà Studios. Based on […]

Oct, 28

Sicilian Ghost Story **** (2017, Julia Jedlikowska, Gaetano Fernandez, Corinne Musallari) – Movie Review 

Sicilian Ghost Story is a beautifully imaginative, quite mesmerising and haunting Italian film art work. Julia Jedlikowska stars as young Luna, who loves her 13-year-old boyfriend Giuseppe (Gaetano Fernandez) truly, madly, deeply. Giuseppe reciprocates that love. But Luna’s […]

Sep, 18

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