Derek Winnert

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The Four Days of Naples [Le Quattro Giornate di Napoli] **** (1962, Regina Bianchi, Aldo Guffre, Lea Massari, Jean Sorel) – Classic Movie Review 12,992

The 1963 Best Foreign Language Film Oscar nomination deservedly went to this powerfully staged and extremely potent re-enactment of the 1943 blood-stained but successful revolt by the citizens of Naples against the Nazis.  Director Nanni […]

Jul, 10

Hands Over the City [Le mani sulla città] **** (1963, Rod Steiger, Salvo Randone, Guido Alberti) – Classic Movie Review 11,072

Rod Steiger goes to Italy like so many other American actors in search of work and finds a prestige film by top director Francesco Rosi for the award-winning 1963  political and social drama film Hands […]

Apr, 04

Macaroni [Maccheroni] **** (1985, Jack Lemmon, Marcello Mastroianni, Daria Nicolodi) – Classic Movie Review 8796

Director Ettore Scola’s 1985 Macaroni [Maccheroni] is a subtle, well-cooked comedy-drama from Italy, with yummy performances from Jack Lemmon as Robert Traven, a grouchy American businessman back in Naples for the first time in four […]

Aug, 05

Street Angel **** (1928, Janet Gaynor, Charles Farrell, Natalie Kingston) – Classic Movie Review 7537

Janet Gaynor and Charles Farrell make the ideal star couple for director Frank Borzage, here directing them for the third time in this compellingly romantic, if somewhat mawkish 1928 early sound film Street Angel, which […]

Sep, 03

It Started in Naples *** (1960, Clark Gable, Sophia Loren, Vittorio De Sica) – Classic Movie Review 6920

The ageing Clark Gable announced that he was too old to play romantic leading roles and would be looking for different kinds of parts after But Not for Me (1959), but his next film is […]

Apr, 14

The Decameron **** (1970, Franco Citti, Ninetto Davoli, Angela Luce, Silvana Mangano, Vincenzo Amato, Guido Alberti, Monique van Vooren) – Classic Movie Review 3201

Director Pier Paolo Pasolini kicks off his Trilogy of Life movies with this bawdy and entertaining 1970 film consisting of a series of eight tales from Italian author Giovanni Boccaccio’s classic 14th century book collection […]

Dec, 31

The Talented Mr Ripley ****½ (1999, Matt Damon, Gwyneth Paltrow, Jude Law, Cate Blanchett, Philip Seymour Hoffman, James Rebhorn, Jack Davenport) – Classic Movie Review 41

With more subtlety, more noir, and an entirely different ending, the 1999 film The Talented Mr Ripley would be 100% brilliant. As it is, it’s still quite entrancing and mesmerising, with a dazzling cast pitch […]

Jul, 10

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