Derek Winnert

Buffalo Girls *** (1995, Anjelica Huston, Melanie Griffith, Gabriel Byrne, Sam Elliott, John Diehl, Jack Palance, Liev Schreiber, Reba McEntire, Tracey Walter, Peter Coyote) – Classic Movie Review 1763

Anjelica Huston is ideally cast as legendary cowgirl Calamity Jane, who has a romance with Wild Bill Hickok (Sam Elliott) while searching for her long-lost daughter. Director Rod Hardy’s sturdy, well-crafted and richly enjoyable old-style […]

Oct, 11 · in Reviews

Far from the Madding Crowd **** (1967, Julie Christie, Peter Finch, Alan Bates, Terence Stamp) – Classic Movie Review 1,762

John Schlesinger’s 1967 British period drama film of the 1874 Thomas Hardy novel Far from the Madding Crowd is a gorgeous-looking and emotion-packed intimate epic. Director John Schlesinger’s beautifully produced 1967 British period drama film […]

Oct, 11 · in Reviews

The Tales of Hoffmann ***** (1951, Moira Shearer, Robert Helpmann, Robert Rounseville, Ludmilla Tchérina, Ann Ayars) – Classic Movie Review 1761

Writer/producer/director team Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger set about in 1951 to try to repeat the success of their all-time great dance film The Red Shoes (1948) and cast Moira Shearer, Robert Helpmann, Leonide Massine, Ludmilla Tcherina […]

Oct, 11

Come Back to the 5 & Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean **** (1982, Cher, Karen Black, Sandy Dennis) – Classic Movie Review 1,760

Cher, Karen Black and Sandy Dennis star in Robert Altman’s stupendous 1982 movie Come Back to the 5 & Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean, the first of his fertile film adaptations of stage plays.   […]

Oct, 11

Denise Calls Up **** (1995, Tim Daly, Caroleen Feeney, Dan Gunther) – Classic Movie Review 1759

  A group of New Yorker friends, busy working on their PCs and laptops, are for ever calling each other up – but never actually meeting – in writer-director Hal Salwen’s witty 1995 satirical comedy. Too busy […]

Oct, 11

Down to You ** (2000, Freddie Prinze Jr, Julia Stiles, Selma Blair) – Classic Movie Review 1758

Writer-director Kris Isacsson’s 2000 effort is a sweet, light-weight, warm-hearted romantic comedy and relationship movie in which a nice, sympathetic guy wins and loses his first serious love of his life. Freddie Prinze Jr stars as Al Connelly, […]

Oct, 11

Head Over Heels ** (2001, Monica Potter, Freddie Prinze Jr, Shalom Harlow) – Classic Movie Review 1757

  Freddie Prinze Jr falls for Monica Potter against the background of New York’s world of fashion in this amusingly girly comedy. Art restorer Amanda (Potter) finds she has supermodels (Shalom Harlow, Ivana Milicevic, Sarah […]

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