Derek Winnert

Sweet Bird of Youth *** (1989, Elizabeth Taylor, Mark Harmon, Rip Torn, Valerie Perrine, Ruta Lee, Kevin Geer) – Classic Movie Review 5237

Director Nicolas Roeg’s interesting 1989 TV movie version of the Tennessee Williams play is reworked by teleplay writer Gavin Lambert, apparently using the playwright’s own revisions, though these are not always an improvement on the […]

Apr, 02 · in Reviews

Sweet Bird of Youth **** (1962, Paul Newman, Geraldine Page, Ed Begley, Mildred Dunnock, Rip Torn, Shirley Knight) – Classic Movie Review 5236

Writer-director Richard Brooks’s 1962 movie is a really rather impressive, fine and resonant film version of this esteemed and typical Tennessee Williams play. Paul Newman gives an attractive performance as the ambitious but charming young […]

Apr, 02 · in Reviews

Hollow Point ** (1996, Donald Sutherland, John Lithgow, Thomas Ian Griffith, Tia Carrere) – Classic Movie Review 5233

Donald Sutherland is his usual brilliant self as Garret Lawton, a surprisingly principled hitman, in director Sidney J Furie’s otherwise unremarkable 1996 action comedy thriller, which is burdened down with the heavy weight two weak […]

Apr, 02

Hollow Reed ** (1996, Martin Donovan, Ian Hart, Joely Richardson, Jason Flemyng, Sam Bould) – Classic Movie Review 5232

Director Angela Pope’s 1996 British drama is a bit of a sensationalist hotch-potch, though it is well meaning and, at least by Martin Donovan and Joely Richardson, very well acted. Martin Donovan plays GP Martyn […]

Apr, 02

In the Cut **** (2003, Meg Ryan, Mark Ruffalo, Jenifer Jason Leigh, Kevin Bacon) – Classic Movie Review 5231

Meg Ryan throws off her nicey-nice image to play Frannie Avery, a a New York City inner city high school English teacher involved with a serial killer, and the NYPD homicide detective, Giovanni Malloy (Mark […]

Apr, 02

Little Man Tate *** (1991, Jodie Foster, Dianne Wiest, Adam Hann-Byrd, Harry Connick Jnr) – Classic Movie Review 5230

Jodie Foster both directs and stars in this engaging 1991 labour-of-love drama as New York unmarried mother Dede Tate, trying to bring up her son Fred who is musically, scientifically and emotionally super-gifted. It is […]

Apr, 02

The Lovers [Les Amants] **** (1958, Jeanne Moreau, Alain Cluny, Jean-Marc Bory) – Classic Movie Review 5229

The 25-year-old co-writer/ director Louis Malle’s 1958 second feature is a deliciously lyrical love story that caused huge controversy and confirmed the rising reputations of the French director and his star Jeanne Moreau, previously established […]

Apr, 01

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