Derek Winnert

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September **** (1987, Denholm Elliott, Dianne Wiest, Mia Farrow, Elaine Stritch, Sam Waterston, Jack Warden) – Classic Movie Review 3039

Writer-director Woody Allen’s powerful 1987 Ingmar Bergman-style movie is an intense, serious psychological drama from Allen in which six people (played by Denholm Elliott, Dianne Wiest, Mia Farrow, Elaine Stritch, Sam Waterston and Jack Warden) try […]

Nov, 07

Stardust Memories ***** (1980, Woody Allen, Charlotte Rampling, Jessica Harper) – Classic Movie Review 1810

This is the Woody Allen film with the message the public didn’t want to hear – ‘I don’t want to make funny movies any more. I don’t feel funny.’ It is one of his serious […]

Nov, 06

Two Days, One Night ***** (2014, Marion Cotillard, Fabrizio Rongione) – Movie Review

Somehow, the glamorous and attractive Marion Cotillard submerges her own persona totally and makes herself effortlessly convincingly ordinary and even almost frumpy as Sandra, a mentally fragile youngish Paris suburban woman who has the weekend to convince her […]

Aug, 20

Eden Lake **** (2008, Kelly Reilly, Michael Fassbender, Jack O’Connell, Thomas Turgoose) – Classic Movie Review 1204

Writer-director James Watkins’s gruesome, realistic and disturbing British 2008 horror thriller stars Kelly Reilly and Michael Fassbender as nursery teacher Jenny and her boyfriend Steve who quit town for a romantic weekend. Steve has picked […]

May, 11

The Lost Weekend ***** (1945, Ray Milland, Jane Wyman, Phillip Terry) – Classic Movie Review 1030

Co-writer/director Billy Wilder’s coruscating, much-admired four-Oscar-winning 1945 drama proved Ray Milland’s greatest triumph in the movies and one of director Wilder’s. It won the Oscar for Best Picture and the Grand Prix at the Cannes Film Festival. Milland […]

Apr, 01

Human Traffic **** (1999, John Simm, Justin Kerrigan, Danny Dyer) – Classic Movie Review 686

The 25-year-old Welshman Justin Kerrigan’s notable, eye-catching writer-director debut in 1999 looked like an industry calling card, but he didn’t make another movie till 2008’s I Know You Know. John Simm stars and gives a […]

Jan, 14

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