Derek Winnert

"The Review's Better Than The Film"

Light Sleeper *** (1992, Willem Dafoe, Susan Sarandon, Dana Delany, David Clennon, Mary Beth Hurt, Victor Garber, David Spade, Jane Adams) – Classic Movie Review 4154

Writer-director Paul Schrader’s 1992 Breathless-style thriller stars Willem Dafoe as a reformed addict drug pusher on the edge of middle-age, having a bad time with his upscale clients. Then he gets mixed up in murder during […]

Aug, 10 · in Reviews

The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter **** (1968, Sondra Locke, Alan Arkin, Stacy Keach, Chuck McCann) – Classic Movie Review 4153

Director Robert Ellis Miller’s truly affecting 1968 drama The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter is remarkable for the touching performance of young Sondra Locke (aged 24), who was Oscar nominated as Best Supporting Actress in […]

Aug, 10 · in Reviews

A Heart in Winter [Un coeur en hiver] ***** (1992, Daniel Auteuil, Emmanuelle Béart, André Dussollier) – Classic Movie Review 4152

Director Claude Sautet’s entrancing 1992 French romance drama stars Daniel Auteuil as Stéphane, a master violin maker, who falls for beautiful young violin playing virtuoso Camille (Emmanuelle Béart) when she brings her instrument for repairs. […]

Aug, 10

Blue Crush ** (2003, Kate Bosworth, Matthew Davis, Michelle Rodriguez, Sanoe Lake, Mika Boorem) – Classic Movie Review 4151

Can surfer babe Anne Marie (Kate Bosworth) ride the wave and win a big Hawaii contest? Will she fall for neat football player Matt Tollman (Matthew Davis)? Director John Stockwell’s slick 2003 surfin’ soap is a […]

Aug, 09

Blue Collar **** (1978, Richard Pryor, Harvey Keitel, Yaphet Kotto, Ed Begley Jnr, Cliff De Young) – Classic Movie Review 4150

Co-writer/director Paul Schrader shoots from the hip in his directing début – a hard-hitting piece about a trio of car plant labourers in a Detroit auto factory – Zeke (Richard Pryor), Jerry (Harvey Keitel) and Smokey […]

Aug, 09

Hardcore **** (1979, George C Scott, Peter Boyle, Season Hubley) – Classic Movie Review 4149

Writer-director Paul Schrader takes another walk on the wild side with this 1979 thriller portrait of a conservative middle America businessman called Jake Van Dorn (George C Scott) looking for his runaway teenage daughter whom […]

Aug, 09

London Kills Me **½ (1991, Justin Chadwick, Steven Mackintosh, Emer McCourt, Roshan Seth, Fiona Shaw, Brad Dourif, Tony Hargarth, Naveen Andrews, Stevan Rimkus) – Classic Movie Review 4148

Screeen-writer/ director Hanif Kureishi’s 1991 drama stars Justin Chadwick as a poverty-stricken, homeless, shoeless youth of 20 called Clint Eastwood, who is unable to find a job but wants to get of London’s drug world by taking a job as […]

Aug, 09

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