Derek Winnert

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Picnic at Hanging Rock **** (1975, Rachel Roberts, Anne-Louise Lambert, Vivean Gray, Dominic Guard, Helen Morse, Jacki Weaver) – Classic Movie Review 7097

‘On St Valentine’s Day in 1900 a party of schoolgirls set out to picnic at Hanging Rock. Some were never to return.’ Miranda: ‘What we see and what we seem are but a dream, a […]

May, 26

Personal Affair ** (1953, Leo Genn, Gene Tierney, Glynis Johns, Pamela Brown, Walter Fitzgerald, Megs Jenkins, Michael Hordern, Thora Hird) – Classic Movie Review 7082

Director Anthony Pelissier’s 1953 British film Personal Affair stars Leo Genn as Mr Barlow, a married Latin-language teacher as a British school who is the object of the infatuated affections of one of his pupils, 17-year-old Barbara […]

May, 22

L’Homme du Train [Man on the Train] **** (2002, Johnny Hallyday, Jean Rochefort, Jean-François Stévenin) – Classic Movie Review 6729

‘Two strangers with nothing in common are about to trade their lives for a chance to cheat their destinies.’ Director Patrice Leconte’s deliciously quirky and richly enjoyably 2002 French thriller presents the irresistibly attractive prospect […]

Feb, 24

Bathing Beauty **** (1944, Red Skelton, Esther Williams, Basil Rathbone, Jean Porter, Bill Goodwin, Nana Bryant, Xavier Cugat, Harry James) – Classic Movie Review 6,591

The Forties silver screen Bathing Beauty could only be Esther Williams, and here she is in all her Technicolor glory in MGM’s deliciously kitsch and richly entertaining 1944 musical movie. The Forties silver screen Bathing […]

Jan, 22

The United States of Leland **** (2003, Don Cheadle, Ryan Gosling, Kevin Spacey, Chris Klein, Jena Malone, Lena Olin, Michelle Williams) – Classic Movie Review 6561

Don Cheadle plays Pearl Madison, a juvenile detention centre jail teacher who probes the mystery of just why the teenage boy Leland (Ryan Gosling) killed his ex-girlfriend’s special needs disabled kid brother. Writer-director Matthew Ryan […]

Jan, 15

Music of the Heart *** (1999, Meryl Streep, Angela Bassett, Cloris Leachman, Aidan Quinn) – Classic Movie Review 6517

Director Wes Craven’s heartwarming, inspirational 1999 drama stars Meryl Streep as a teacher who fights her education board to stop cuts and be able to coach underprivileged Harlem kids the violin. Off his usual territory, […]

Jan, 03

Farewell My Concubine [Ba wang bie ji] ***** (1993, Leslie Cheung, Zhang Fengyi, Gong Li) – Classic Movie Review 6386

Director Chen Kaige’s magnificent 1993 epic romantic music drama is the co-winner of the 1993 Palme d’Or and winner of the International Critics’ FIPRESCI Prize at the Cannes Film Festival. It follows the changing fortunes and […]

Dec, 10

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