Derek Winnert

Suspect **** (1987, Cher, Dennis Quaid, Liam Neeson, John Mahoney, Joe Mantegna, Philip Bosco) – Classic Movie Review 6501

Director Peter Yates follows up his Eyewitness (1981) in 1987 with another top-notch thriller in similar vein. It boasts charismatic performances by Cher as public defender Kathleen Riley, Liam Neeson as her client Carl Anderson, a […]

Dec, 31 · in Uncategorized

Eyewitness [The Janitor] **** (1981, William Hurt, Sigourney Weaver, Christopher Plummer) – Classic Movie Review 6500

Producer-director Peter Yates’s first-class 1981 thriller is extremely moody, atmospheric, neat and tense throughout. The screenplay is convincingly written by Steve Tesich. The young William Hurt is at his best as the Vietnam War vet and Manhattan […]

Dec, 31 · in Reviews

Fade-In ** (1968, Barbara Loden, Burt Reynolds, Noam Pitlik) – Classic Movie Review 6499

Barbara Loden stars as Jean, a Hollywood assistant film editor who romances a cowboy called Rob (Burt Reynolds) who is working as a driver on her movie, the actual 1968 film Blue that starred Terence Stamp, […]

Dec, 31

Blue * (1968, Terence Stamp, Joanna Pettet, Karl Malden, Ricardo Montalban) – Classic Movie Review 6,498

Terence Stamp stars as a Mexican bandit’s adopted son, In the truly odd 1968 Western film Blue. Director Silvio Narizzano’s weird American version of the spaghetti Western is a very typical product of its extravagant […]

Dec, 31

Edward II **** (1991, Steven Waddington, Kevin Collins, Tilda Swinton, Nigel Terry, Andrew Tiernan, John Lynch, Dudley Sutton, Annie Lennox) – Classic Movie Review 6497

Director Derek Jarman’s 1991 film version of Christopher Marlowe’s 16th-century Elizabethan play about the outrageous gay English King Edward II is a lively, imaginative and often moving piece of work. It brings the revered antique play […]

Dec, 30

The Last of England **** (1987, Tilda Swinton, Spencer Leigh, ‘Spring’ Mark Adley) – Classic Movie Review 6496

Director Derek Jarman’s 1987 British renaissance experimental film provides a furious personal broadside, using the sometimes modest means at his disposal – old home movies and Super-8, as well as disturbing scenes of crumbling inner-city […]

Dec, 30

Wittgenstein ***½ (1993, Karl Johnson, Michael Gough, Tilda Swinton, Clancy Chassay, John Quentin) – Classic Movie Review 6495

Director Derek Jarman’s 1993 film is a lively, humorous portrait of the gay Viennese-born, Cambridge-educated philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951), one of the most influential philosophers of the 20th-century, exploring his life, works and key ideas. They […]

Dec, 30

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