Derek Winnert

Raising Arizona **** (1987, Nicolas Cage, Holly Hunter, Trey Wilson) – Classic Movie Review 1767

Hooray for the Coen Brothers’ second movie, providing a dazzling follow-up to their stunning film noir debut with Blood Simple in 1984. Nicolas Cage and Holly Hunter star as a petty crook H.I. McDonnough (‘Hi’) […]

Oct, 13 · in Reviews

The Hudsucker Proxy **** (1994, Tim Robbins, Paul Newman, Jennifer Jason Leigh) – Classic Movie Review 1766

The Coen Brothers’ inspired 1994 satirical screwball comedy about big business and a corporate stock scam is a stunning-looking retro art object, with bravura visuals, witty dialogue, a great score by Carter Burwell and a […]

Oct, 13 · in Reviews

The Man Who Wasn’t There **** (2001, Billy Bob Thornton, Frances McDormand, James Gandolfini) – Classic Movie Review 1765

The tenth movie from the Coen Brothers in 2001 sees them returning to the Forties-style film-noir terrain of their debut film, Blood Simple, in a clever, atmospheric, compellingly twisting tale of infidelity, blackmail and death. Billy […]

Oct, 12

The Ladykillers ** (2004, Tom Hanks, Marlon Wayans, Irma P. Hall) – Classic Movie Review 1764

Oh, no! In 2004 America’s the Coen Brothers have remade our menacingly funny 1955 British gem of a movie, with Tom Hanks miscast and struggling in an over-calculated character turn as Professor G H Dorr, […]

Oct, 12

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

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

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

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