Derek Winnert

Nijinsky *** (1980, Alan Bates, George De La Pena, Leslie Browne) – Classic Movie Review 6027

Director Herbert Ross follows his hit 1977 dance movie The Turning Point with this sumptuously realised, passionately told, involvingly acted 1980 film version of the true-life gay love story of the tragic obsession of the choreographer […]

Sep, 15 · in Uncategorized

The Turning Point *** (1977, Anne Bancroft, Shirley MacLaine, Leslie Browne, Mikhail Baryshnikov) – Classic Movie Review 6026

The Turning Point (1977) was nominated for 11 Oscars, but there was not a single win! However, it won Best Motion Picture – Drama and Best Director – Motion Picture at the Golden Globes. Director Herbert […]

Sep, 15 · in Uncategorized

The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle ***½ (1939, Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Edna May Oliver, Walter Brennan) – Classic Movie Review 6017

The last of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers’s great series of musicals at RKO Radio Pictures (with a single reunion to come, The Barkleys of Broadway, at MGM a decade later) is a nostalgic biopic of […]

Sep, 14

The Barkleys of Broadway ***½ (1949, Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Oscar Levant) – Classic Movie Review 6018

After a decade apart as a screen partnership since The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle (1939), Ginger Rogers gets to star with Fred Astaire again for one final fling as his replacement co-star when […]

Sep, 14

Little Fauss and Big Halsy * (1970, Robert Redford, Michael J Pollard, Lauren Hutton, Noah Beery Jr, Lucille Benson) – Classic Movie Review 6022

Director Sidney J Furie’s 1970 motorcycle buddy movie Little Fauss and Big Halsy stars Robert Redford, who teams up with brief star Michael J Pollard (from Bonnie and Clyde) for this lethargic flop drama about […]

Sep, 13

Cisco Pike **** (1972, Gene Hackman, Kris Kristofferson, Karen Black) – Classic Movie Review 6,021

The excellent, hard-hitting 1971 thriller film Cisco Pike stars Gene Hackman as a crooked cop who blackmails has-been rock star Cisco Pike (Kris Kristofferson) into dealing $10,000 worth of marijuana in one weekend. Co-writer/ director […]

Sep, 13

Night Moves ***½ (1975, Gene Hackman, Susan Clark, Edward Binns, Jennifer Warren, James Woods, Melanie Griffith ) – Classic Movie Review 6,020

Arthur Penn’s dark-toned, complex 1975 neo-noir thriller film Night Moves stars Gene Hackman as Los Angeles private detective Harry Moseby, who searches for the missing teenage daughter of a former movie actress. Director Arthur Penn’s […]

Sep, 13

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