Derek Winnert

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The Night of San Lorenzo [La Notte di San Lorenzo] **** (1982, Omero Antonutti, Margarita Lozano, Claudio Bigagli) – Classic Movie Review 10,465

Italians try to survive as the Americans liberate a small town in Tuscany from the Germans in August 1944, in the moving 1981 Italian wartime drama film The Night of San Lorenzo from Paolo Taviani […]

Oct, 27

The Love Specialist [La ragazza del palio] ** (1958, Diana Dors, Vittorio Gassman, Franca Valeri, Bruce Cabot) – Classic Movie Review 7009

Swindon-born Diana Dors is bizarrely cast in director Luigi Zampa’s scenic but unlikely 1958 Italian-French movie The Love Specialist as Texan young woman Diana Dixon, who wins a quiz show jackpot and goes to Italy. Her car breaks […]

May, 06

Under the Tuscan Sun *** (2003, Diane Lane, Sandra Oh, Raoul Bova, Lindsay Duncan) – Classic Movie Review 3614

Audrey Wells writes, produces and directs the cute and charming 2003 American romantic comedy drama film Under the Tuscan Sun starring Diane Lane, who is perfect in the role of the author Frances Mayes. Audrey Wells […]

Apr, 24

Where Angels Fear to Tread *** (1991, Helen Mirren, Helena Bonham Carter, Judy Davis, Rupert Graves, Barbara Jefford) – Classic Movie Review 2642

Director Charles Sturridge, maker of Evelyn Waugh’s Brideshead Revisited (the 1981 mini-series) and A Handful of Dust (1988), challenges the Ismail Merchant- James Ivory team head on here with an E M Forster adaptation in […]

Jun, 26

Natural Resistance *** (2014) – Movie Review

US film-maker Jonathan Nossiter, best known for his 2014 anti-corporate wine-making documentary Mondovino, returns to the subject, documenting the drastic shifts that have affected the industry in the decade. By chatting with four Italian wine producers about the current […]

Jun, 20

The Face of an Angel ***½ (2014, Daniel Brühl, Kate Beckinsale, Cara Delevingne) – Movie Review

Director Michael Winterbottom’s intelligent and involving film takes the real-life Italian murder case of British student Meredith Kercher in 2007 and turns it into a sideways take on events, profitably focusing on a documentary film-maker/screenwriter (Daniel Brühl) and his […]

Mar, 26

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

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