Derek Winnert

Lost Highway ***½ (1997, Bill Pullman, Patricia Arquette, Balthazar Getty, Natasha Gregson Wagner, Gary Busey, Giovanni Ribisi, Robert Loggia, Robert Blake) – Classic Movie Review 1315

Co-writer/director David Lynch’s infuriating, but imaginative and thrilling-looking 1997 surreal thriller film Lost Highway stars Bill Pullman as saxophonist Fred Madison, who dreams that he and his wife Renée (Patricia Arquette) are being watched by […]

Jun, 11 · in Reviews

Prospero’s Books ***** (1991, John Gielgud) – Classic Movie Review 1313

Cult writer-director Peter Greenaway’s joyful 1991 film of Shakespeare’s The Tempest is a dazzling delight, both visually and aurally, respecting and adorning the play big time. A pioneering work with delight as much in technical innovation as in artistic imagination, […]

Jun, 09 · in Reviews

The Tempest *** (1979, dir Derek Jarman) – Classic Movie Review 1312

‘We are such stuff. As dreams are made on, and our little life. Is rounded with a sleep.’ – Prospero. Director Derek Jarman’s imaginative and entertaining 1979 unconventional reimagining of William Shakespeare play for the […]

Jun, 09

The Prowler **** (1951, Van Heflin, Evelyn Keyes, John Maxwell, Katherine Warren, Emerson Treacy) – Classic Movie Review 1,311

Joseph Losey delivers a tense, grippingly performed, dark-toned thriller in the 1951 film noir The Prowler, starring Van Heflin and Evelyn Keyes. Director Joseph Losey delivers a tense, grippingly performed, dark-toned thriller with plenty of […]

Jun, 09

Elizabeth **** (1998, Cate Blanchett, Joseph Fiennes, Geoffrey Rush) – Classic Movie Review 1310

Director Shekhar Kapur’s splendid 1998 historical thriller stars Cate Blanchett, ageing and maturing convincingly through a long reign in a scaldingly exciting performance as the steely Queen Elizabeth I, crowned Queen at 25. Winning the […]

Jun, 08

Once Upon a Honeymoon *** (1942, Cary Grant, Ginger Rogers, Albert Dekker, Harry Shannon, Albert Bassermann, Ferike Boros, Hans Conried) – Classic Movie Review 1,309

Leo McCarey’s 1942 wartime comedy drama film Once Upon a Honeymoon stars Ginger Rogers as a showgirl who gets married to an Austrian Baron (Walter Slezak). Cary Grant also stars as a wireless personality who […]

Jun, 08

The Talk of the Town ***** (1942, Jean Arthur, Cary Grant, Ronald Colman) – Classic Movie Review 1308

Co-producer/director George Stevens’s 1942 classic love triangle comedy drama stars Jean Arthur as schoolteacher Nora Shelley, who is in love with both escaped murder suspect Leopold Dilg (Cary Grant), who’s hiding in her attic, and […]

Jun, 08

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