Derek Winnert

Posts Tagged "Rome"

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Caro Diario [Dear Diary] **** (1993, Nanni Moretti, Renato Carpentieri) – Classic Movie Review 3054

Writer-director Nanni Moretti directs himself playing himself in his witty 1993 ironically wry look at life in three chapters like diary entries with personal stories and reflections. (1) Moretti travels around Rome on his Vespa, admiring […]

Nov, 13

Le Mépris [Contempt] **** (1963, Brigitte Bardot, Jack Palance, Michel Piccoli, Fritz Lang, Giorgia Moll) – Classic Movie Review 3011

‘Bardot at her bold, bare and brazen best!’ Jean-Luc Godard’s 1963 French New Wave meditation on cinema Le Mépris [Contempt] features France’s number one sex symbol Brigitte Bardot in provocative poses. ‘Bardot at her bold, […]

Oct, 28

Satyricon [Fellini Satyricon] **** (1969, Martin Potter, Hiram Keller, Max Born, Capucine, Magali Noël, Alain Cuny) – Classic Movie Review 2635

The decadence of Ancient Rome inspires director Federico Fellini, who is on fine, lusty form in this 1969 movie version of the classic book by Petronius (Gaius Petronius Arbiter). In the tales, two student friends, […]

Jun, 24

Two Weeks in Another Town **** (1962, Kirk Douglas, Edward G. Robinson, Cyd Charisse, Claire Trevor, Daliah Lavi, George Hamilton, Rosanna Schiaffino) – Classic Movie Review 2362

Director Vincente Minnelli’s literate and intelligent 1962 follow-up to MGM’s The Bad and the Beautiful has the same movie-making background and the same star (Kirk Douglas), writer (Charles Schnee), producer (John Houseman) and director, as […]

Apr, 06

Quo Vadis? **** (1951, Robert Taylor, Deborah Kerr, Leo Genn, Peter Ustinov, Patricia Laffan, Finlay Currie, Abraham Sofaer) – Classic Movie Review 2253

MGM’s plush and lavish 1951 Technicolor biblical epic blockbuster film Quo Vadis? stars Robert Taylor and Deborah Kerr, as the crazed Emperor Nero (Peter Ustinov) fiddles while Rome burns, chariots race, armies march and lions […]

Mar, 11

Third Person *** (2014, Liam Neeson, Mila Kunis, Adrien Brody, Olivia Wilde) – Movie Review

Liam Neeson stars as Pulitzer Prize-winning fiction author Michael who has holed himself up in a hotel suite in Paris to finish his latest book in this glossy and diverting 2014 romantic drama from talented writer-director Paul […]

Nov, 15

Sacro GRA **** (2013, dir Gianfranco Rosi) – Movie Review

Film-maker Gianfranco Rosi tells a tale, or rather paints a portrait, of his own country of Italy, filming for over two years in a minivan on Rome’s giant ring road, the GRA, to reveal the […]

Nov, 15

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