Derek Winnert

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The Unbearable Lightness of Being **** (1988, Daniel Day-Lewis, Juliette Binoche, Lena Olin) – Classic Movie Review 11,872

Czech-born novelist Milan Kundera’s best-known work is The Unbearable Lightness of Being: the idea is that everything is guaranteed to recur infinitely in an infinite universe. But he complained about the film version. Director Philip […]

Jan, 22

Anthropoid **½ (2016, Cillian Murphy, Jamie Dornan, Brian Caspe, Toby Jones, Karel Hermánek Jr, Bill Milner, Charlotte Le Bon) – Movie Review

Well meaning and largely convincing but depressing and rather disappointing film of the true story of Operation Anthropoid, the WWII mission to assassinate top Nazi SS General Reinhard Heydrich, leader of occupying Nazi forces in […]

Sep, 14

The Golem [Der Golem, wie er in die Welt kam] ***** (1920, Paul Wegener, Albert Steinrück, Ernst Deutsch) – Classic Movie Review 2909

Director Paul Wegener and Carl Boese’s stylish, captivating and influential 1920 German silent version of the monster story is one of cinema’s great classics. Albert Steinruck stars as a rabbi, Der Rabbi Löw, who is building […]

Sep, 13

Oliver Twist ** (2005, Barney Clark, Ben Kingsley, Harry Eden, Edward Hardwicke, Leanne Rowe, Jamie Foreman, Jeremy Swift) – Classic Movie Review 2686

Let’s Twist again! Or maybe not? Producer-director Roman Polanski comes up with a disappointment in 2005 – a pedestrian, plodding and uninspired movie version of the classic Charles Dickens tale, but nevertheless with some excellent […]

Jul, 11

Kafka *** (1991, Jeremy Irons, Theresa Russell, Joel Grey) – Classic Movie Review 2138

Director Steven Soderbergh’s ambitious and intriguing 1991 follow-up to his sensationally successful 1989 worldwide indie hit Sex, Lies, and Videotape is a murky mystery thriller about author Franz Kafka (Jeremy Irons) getting caught up in a strange […]

Jan, 31

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