Derek Winnert

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West Side Story **** (2021, Ansel Elgort, Rachel Zegler, Ariana DeBose, David Alvarez, Mike Faist, Rita Moreno) -Movie Review

First off, the 1957 stage show West Side Story is brilliant and timeless, the best of its kind. Second, the 1961 film of it, West Side Story, is also brilliant and timeless, the best of […]

Dec, 20

Say Hello to Yesterday * (1971, Jean Simmons, Leonard Whiting, Evelyn Laye) – Classic Movie Review 10,843

Director Alvin Rakoff’s 1971 British romance Say Hello to Yesterday stars Leonard Whiting, the former Romeo in Franco Zeffirelli’s Romeo and Juliet, as a pretty but thoroughly unpleasant young seducer pursuing an affluent, middle-aged housewife […]

Jan, 28

Romeo and Juliet [Giulietta e Romeo] * (1954, Laurence Harvey, Susan Shentall, Flora Robson, Mervyn Johns , Bill Travers) – Classic Movie Review 10,315

Writer-director Renato Castellani’s 1954 UK/Italy film Romeo and Juliet [Giulietta e Romeo] stars Laurence Harvey and Susan Shentall as William Shakespeare’s star-crossed lovers. Shakespeare’s play is adapted for the screen by Castellani. After a shaky […]

Sep, 16

Romeo and Juliet ***** (1968, Leonard Whiting, Olivia Hussey, Michael York, Pat Heywood, Milo O’Shea, John McEnery, Robert Stephens) – Classic Movie Review 437

Director Franco Zeffirelli’s double-Oscar winning 1968 version of William Shakespeare’s classic romantic tragedy play Romeo and Juliet is a gorgeous and glorious affair. Promoted from an Italian TV production to a cinema movie when Paramount […]

Nov, 23

William Shakespeare’s Romeo + Juliet ***** (1996, Leonardo DiCaprio, Claire Danes, John Leguizamo) – Classic Movie Review 438

Leonardo DiCaprio and Claire Danes play the star-crossed lovers and touch the heart in a glorious pop-video age version of the ever-popular William Shakespeare classic play. Director Baz Luhrmann’s 1996 delight is an utterly exhilarating, […]

Nov, 23

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