Derek Winnert

Ironweed *** (1987, Jack Nicholson, Meryl Streep, Carroll Baker) – Classic Movie Review 6637

Jack Nicholson and Meryl Streep apparently so enjoyed making Heartburn (1986) together that they immediately made another movie together, this time playing alcoholic drifter Francis Phelan and his former radio singer friend Helen Archer, begging for work […]

Feb, 01 · in Reviews

Who’ll Stop the Rain [Dog Soldiers] *** (1978, Nick Nolte, Tuesday Weld, Michael Moriarty, Anthony Zerbe, Richard Masur, Ray Sharkey) – Classic Movie Review 6636

Director Karel Reisz obscures his gripping Seventies story about heroin-smuggling among Vietnam veterans by putting his energies into conjuring up atmosphere and character, making this a depressing study of troubled characters in a downbeat drama […]

Feb, 01 · in Reviews

Isadora *** (1968, Vanessa Redgrave, James Fox, Jason Robards Jr) – Classic Movie Review 6635

Director Karel Reisz’s great-looking 1968 British biopic of the 1920s ‘modern’ dancer Isadora Duncan is flawed but fascinating. Even if she herself is no dancer, Vanessa Redgrave impresses in an Oscar-nominated performance that exactly captures […]

Feb, 01

Knight without Armour **** (1937, Marlene Dietrich, Robert Donat, Irene Vanbrugh) – Classic Movie Review 6,634

Producer Alexander Korda comes up with the good idea of teaming Marlene Dietrich and Robert Donat shortly before World War Two with the lavishly atmospheric 1937 period thriller film Knight without Armour, based on James […]

Feb, 01

Everybody Wins ** (1990, Debra Winger, Nick Nolte, Will Patton) – Classic Movie Review 6633

Director Karel Reisz’s 1990 thriller Everybody Wins stars Nick Nolte as a private eye who is called to a peaceful New England town by a quirky, beguiling, perhaps unstable hooker (Debra Winger) to prove a […]

Feb, 01

Rage in Heaven *** (1941, Robert Montgomery, Ingrid Bergman, George Sanders) – Classic Movie Review 6632

Director W S Van Dyke II’s well-cast and intriguing British-set 1941 suspense thriller is based on a book by British novelist James Hilton, author of Goodbye, Mr Chips (1939), Knight without Armour (1937), Lost Horizon (1937), and Random Harvest (1942). […]

Jan, 31

Night Must Fall *** (1964, Albert Finney, Susan Hampshire, Mona Washbourne) – Classic Movie Review 6,631  

The young Albert Finney stars as the psycho live-in handyman Danny, in Karel Reisz’s 1964 British black and white film Night Must Fall, a remake of the 1937 film of the 1935 Emlyn Williams stage hit. […]

Jan, 31

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