Derek Winnert

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Lili Marleen *** (1981, Hanna Schygulla, Giancarlo Giannini, Mel Ferrer) – Classic Movie Review 6186

Co-writer/ director Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s intriguing and stylish looking 1981 German film surprisingly overflows with sentiment and self-importance, and lacks the satiric bite and critical awareness of his best work. However, in other ways it […]

Nov, 04

The Marriage of Maria Braun [Die Ehe der Maria Braun] ***** (1979, Hanna Schygulla, Klaus Löwitsch, Ivan Desny) – Classic Movie Review 6184

Co-writer/ producer/ director Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s polished 1979 German gem The Marriage of Maria Braun won Hanna Schygulla the Best Actress award at the Berlin Film Festival in 1979 for her startling, eye-opening performance as […]

Nov, 03

Dreyfus [The Dreyfus Case] *** (1931, Cedric Hardwicke, George Merritt, Charles Carson, Sam Livesey, Garry Marsh, Randle Ayrton, George Zucco) – Classic Movie Review 6142

Cedric Hardwicke stars as the real-life French-Jewish officer Captain Alfred Dreyfus, who is accused and convicted of spying in 1890s France, after German staff had forged evidence to convict him, ending up doing life on […]

Oct, 25

The Young Lions *** (1958, Marlon Brando, Montgomery Clift, Dean Martin, Maximilian Schell, Hope Lange, Barbara Rush, May Britt) – Classic Movie Review 6087

Director Edward Dmytryk’s intelligent, thought-provoking 1958 war movie brings to the screen Irwin Shaw’s popular novel about the World War Two fates of two American soldiers – playboy entertainer Michael Whiteacre (Dean Martin), Jewish-American Noah Ackerman […]

Oct, 12

The Wall ** (2017, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, John Cena, Laith Nakli) – Movie Review

Aaron Taylor-Johnson and WWE wrestler John Cena star as American soldiers trapped by, and at the sadistic mercy of, a unseen a lethal Iraqi sniper (voice of Laith Nakli) in director Doug Liman’s sweatily intense, […]

Jul, 30

Dear Ruth *** (1947, Joan Caulfield, William Holden, Mona Freeman, Billy DeWolfe, Edward Arnold) – Classic Movie Review 5828

Director William D Russell’s lightly entertaining 1947 film is a stage to screen transfer of Norman Krasna’s Broadway theatre  hit about a political activist teenage schoolgirl called Miriam Wilkins (Mona Freeman) who writes torrid love letters […]

Jul, 30

Dunkirk ** (2017, Fionn Whitehead, Aneurin Barnard, Mark Rylance, Tom Glynn-Carney, Tom Hardy, Kenneth Branagh, James D’Arcy, Cillian Murphy, Harry Styles) – Movie Review

Writer-director Christopher Nolan retells the World War Two Dunkirk story at this weird and unhappy point in Britain’s history with Europe. Why? It’s a mystery. He’s never dabbled in history before, and he provides no clues […]

Jul, 21

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