Derek Winnert

Chop Suey *** (2001, director Bruce Weber) – Classic Movie Review 11,660

Fashion photographer Bruce Weber’s arthouse documentary feature film Chop Suey, a quirky, trendy, picturesque kaleidoscopic portrait one of his models, the wrestler Peter Johnson, was released in 2001. It an album of still photos and […]

Oct, 18 · in Reviews

Chopper *** (2000, Eric Bana, Simon Lyndon, David Field) – Classic Movie Review 11,659

‘I never killed anyone who didn’t deserve it.’ Writer-director Andrew Dominik’s 2000 Australian biographical crime film Chopper is a sensationalist, extreme, fact-based Australia-set drama charting the rise to infamy and time in prison of notorious […]

Oct, 18 · in Uncategorized

Broken Noses *** (1987, director Bruce Weber) – Classic Movie Review 11,658

Famed stills photographer Bruce Weber’s 1987 film directorial début Broken Noses is a beautifully shot feature documentary study of young boxers as they train, hang out and prepare for battle at the Mount Scott Boxing […]

Oct, 18

The Secret in Their Eyes [El secreto de sus ojos] **** (2009, Ricardo Darín, Soledad Villamil, Pablo Rago, Javier Godino, Guillermo Francella) – Classic Movie Review 11,657

Ah yes, the 2010 Best Foreign Language Film of the Year, for Argentina. The Secret in Their Eyes [El secreto de sus ojos] is a classy, haunting, and beautifully acted 2009 Argentinian crime drama film, […]

Oct, 17

Three Sisters *** (1970, Laurence Olivier, Joan Plowright, Jeanne Watts, Louise Purnell, Derek Jacobi, Alan Bates, Ronald Pickup) – Classic Movie Review 11,656

Laurence Olivier’s 1970 film of his 1967 British Royal National Theatre version of the 1901 Anton Chekhov play Three Sisters [Tri Sestry] is theatrical and stiff, but precious for the rousing acting from his Joan […]

Oct, 17

Return from the River Kwai **½ (1989, Edward Fox, Chris Penn, Denholm Elliott, Timothy Bottoms, George Takei) – Classic Movie Review 11,655

Director Andrew V McLaglen’s 1989 film Return from the River Kwai tells the true story about the Japanese (Tutsuya Nakadai, George Takei) escorting a POW battalion of true Brits (Edward Fox, Denholm Elliott) and Aussies […]

Oct, 17

The Return of Captain Invincible *** (1983, Alan Arkin, Christopher Lee, Bill Hunter, Michael Pate, John Bluthal, Max Cullen) – Classic Movie Review 11,654

Director Philippe Mora’s 1983 Australian musical comedy superhero film The Return of Captain Invincible [Legend in Leotards] stars Alan Arkin, Christopher Lee, Kate Fitzpatrick and Bill Hunter. Captain Invincible (Arkin), now a boozy old-timer living in the Aussie […]

Oct, 16

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