Derek Winnert

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When You’re in Love *** (1937, Grace Moore, Cary Grant, Aline MacMahon) – Classic Movie Review 7182

Writer-director Robert Riskin’s 1937 black and white romance When You’re In Love stars opera star Grace Moore as Louise Fuller, an Australian diva who weds artist Jimmy Hudson (Cary Grant) for her American visa when they […]

Jun, 17

Man Trouble * (1992, Jack Nicholson, Ellen Barkin, Beverly D’Angelo, Harry Dean Stanton, Saul Rubinek) – Classic Movie Review 6867

Jack Nicholson stars as a down-at-heel guard dog trainer hired by opera singer Joan Spruance (Ellen Barkin) to steal a manuscript for a tell-all book from one of his clients, her airhead sister who is […]

Mar, 27

Tonight or Never *** (1931, Gloria Swanson, Melvyn Douglas, Boris Karloff) – Classic Movie Review 6292

Gloria Swanson plays passionless Hungarian prima donna opera singer Nella Vargo singing Tosca  in Venice, where she falls for an Italian playboy who is really Jim Fletcher (Melvyn Douglas) an opera producer for the prestigious Metropolitan Opera in New York, in a […]

Nov, 23

One Night with You * (1948, Nino Martini, Patricia Roc, Bonar Colleano) – Classic Movie Review 5440

Director Terence Young’s 1948 British movie is an Italian-based musical romantic comedy with Nino Martini as Giulio, an Italian tenor serenading a stranger he meets in Italy, English rose Mary Santell (Patricia Roc), while they […]

May, 12

Fitzcarraldo ***** (1982, Klaus Kinski, Claudia Cardinale, José Lewgoy) – Classic Movie Review 4459

The great Klaus Kinski stars in the role he was born for – the real-life turn-of-the-last-century mad Irishman Brian Sweeney Fitzgerald, whose plan was to build an opera house in the middle of the Peruvian jungle […]

Oct, 05

M Butterfly ** (1993, Jeremy Irons, John Lone, Barbara Sukowa, Ian Richardson, Annabel Leventon) – Classic Movie Review 4366

Whatever has gone wrong with this stage to film transfer of the hit Broadway and London West End play by David Henry Hwang about a French diplomat serving in Beijing in 1964, who falls for Chinese opera […]

Sep, 15

The Music Teacher [Le Maître de Musique] **** (1988, José van Dam, Anne Roussel, Philippe Volter, Sylvie Fennec Patrick Bauchau, Johan Leysen, Marc Schreiber) – Classic Movie Review 4001

Co-writer/ director Gérard Corbiau’s valuable Oscar-nominated Belgian 1988 music drama stars Brussels-born bass-baritone José Van Dam as aging opera singer Joachim Dallayrac, who retires from singing to the countryside to coach two young singers, Sophie Maurier (Anne Roussel) and Jean Nilson (Philippe Volter). […]

Jul, 12

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