Derek Winnert

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Where the Boys Are *** (1960, Dolores Hart, Paula Prentiss, Yvette Mimieux, Barbara Nichols, Connie Francis, George Hamilton, Jim Hutton) – Classic Movie Review 6235

Dolores Hart, Paula Prentiss, Yvette Mimieux, Barbara Nichols and Connie Francis head for Florida’s Fort Lauderdale for Spring Break at Easter, where they find that the boys, including George Hamilton and Jim Hutton, are gorgeous. […]

Nov, 12

Too Late Blues *** (1961, Bobby Darin, Stella Stevens, Everett Chambers) – Classic Movie Review 5756

Producer/ director/ co-writer John Cassavetes’s intriguing and haunting 1961 movie tale stars Bobby Darin as John ‘Ghost’ Wakefield, an ideological jazz player who meets an unbalanced and introverted beautiful singer, Jess Polanski (Stella Stevens). He […]

Jul, 14

Les Belles de Nuit [Beauties of the Night] *** (1952, Gérard Philipe, Martine Carol, Gina Lollobrigida) – Classic Movie Review 5711

The dashingly handsome but poor young piano instructor/ composer Claude (Gérard Philipe) takes refuge in transferring memories of the women he meets into reveries of close encounters with gorgeous ladies in historical settings in writer-director […]

Jul, 04

Stop Making Sense **** (1984, David Byrne, Talking Heads) – Classic Movie Review 5352

David Byrne: ‘Thanks! Does anybody have any questions?’ Director Jonathan Demme’s 1984 concert film featuring the Eighties thinking person’s top rock act, Talking Heads, is a now iconic, superbly stylish music documentary and innovative concert […]

Apr, 27

New York, New York ***** (1977, Robert De Niro, Liza Minnelli, Lionel Stander, Mary Kay Place, Barry Primus) – Classic Movie Review 5213

Martin Scorsese’s stylish 1977 American musical drama film New York, New York is a musical tribute to his home town of New York City and old Hollywood movies, and stars tremendous Liza Minnelli and Robert […]

Mar, 28

Shame [Skammen] **** (1968, Max von Sydow, Liv Ullmann, Gunnar Björnstrand, Sigge Fürst) – Classic Movie Review 4839

In writer/ director Ingmar Bergman’s bleak, starkly photographed (by the masterly cinematographer Sven Nykvist) 1968 futuristic war fable, a violinist couple (played by Max von Sydow and Liv Ullmann) are embroiled in a civil war […]

Jan, 03

Cyrus *** (2010, John C Reilly, Marisa Tomei, Jonah Hill, Catherine Keener) – Classic Movie Review 4615

When the long-divorced, luck-challenged and spectacularly non-lovely John (John C Reilly) meets the bright and gorgeous middle-aged single mom Molly (Marisa Tomei) at a party, they instantly click and she seems to be exactly the […]

Nov, 08

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