Derek Winnert

Cockfighter *** (1974, Warren Oates, Richard B Shull, Harry Dean Stanton, Ed Begley Jr, Laurie Bird, Troy Donahue, Millie Perkins) – Classic Movie Review 6210

Director Monte Hellman re-teams with Warren Oates, Harry Dean Stanton and Laurie Bird from his 1971 Two-Lane Blacktop cult success for this respected if insufficiently heralded or appreciated 1974 cult movie about a professional cockfighter […]

Nov, 08 · in Uncategorized

Two-Lane Blacktop **** (1971, James Taylor, Warren Oates, Laurie Bird, Dennis Wilson) – Classic Movie Review 6209

‘You can never go fast enough…’ Director Monte Hellman views his 1971 film masterwork Two-Lane Blacktop about a cross-country chase between two custom cars as a metaphorical odyssey into the heart of America. It is […]

Nov, 08 · in Reviews

Legend of the Werewolf ** (1975, Peter Cushing, Ron Moody, Hugh Griffith, Roy Castle David Rintoul) – Classic Movie Review 6208

Director Freddie Francis’s moderate British 1975 horror movie stars Peter Cushing as the police surgeon/ coroner Professor Paul, a lycanthrope expert who turns detective and follows the werewolf trail of grisly murders in 19th century France […]

Nov, 08

The Merchant of Venice *** (2004, Al Pacino, Joseph Fiennes, Lynn Collins, Jeremy Irons, Alan Corduner) – Classic Movie Review 6207

Writer-director Michael Radford’s much admired 2004 movie version of the William Shakespeare tragic play is gorgeously filmed where it is supposed to happen in Venice. Al Pacino has a field day as the Merchant Shylock, charismatically […]

Nov, 07

The Big Fisherman * (1959, Howard Keel, Alexander Scourby, Susan Kohner, John Saxon, Martha Hyer, Herbert Lom) – Classic Movie Review 6206

Singer Howard Keel often proved a nice, effective actor, but here he is uncomfortably cast as Saint Peter, in the Walt Disney studio’s often tepid, sometimes incompetent 1959 drama based on Lloyd C Douglas’s once […]

Nov, 07

Berlin Alexanderplatz ***** (1980, Günter Lamprecht, Claus Holm, Hanna Schygulla, Gottfried John, Barbara Sukowa) – Classic Movie Review 6205

Writer-director Rainer Werner Fassbinder remakes Phil Jutzi’s German classic movie of 1931 and comes up with a towering monument of film-making in an inspired attempt to capture the entire essence of Alfred Döblin’s novel in […]

Nov, 07

The Stationmaster’s Wife [Bolwieser] *** (1977, Elisabeth Trissenaar, Kurt Raab, Bernhard Helfrich) – Classic Movie Review 6204

The Stationmaster’s Wife is the 111-minute cinema movie version of Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s 200-minute German TV two-part mini-series Bolwieser, in which the pathetic hero, the boring stationmaster Xaver Bolwieser (Kurt Raab), is dominated by his […]

Nov, 07

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