Derek Winnert

Bronco Buster *** (1952, John Lund, Scott Brady, Joyce Holden, Chill Wills) – Classic Movie Review 11,662

Director Budd Boetticher’s 1952 Technicolor Western film Bronco Buster is based on a story by Peter B Kyne, and stars John Lund, Scott Brady, Joyce Holden, Chill Wills, and Don Haggerty. Novice bronco rider Bart […]

Oct, 18 · in Reviews

Let’s Get Lost *** (1988, director Bruce Weber) – Classic Movie Review 11,661

In 1987 fashion photographer Bruce Weber was still working on his first feature film Broken Noses (1987) when met the legendary jazz trumpeter and vocalist Chet Baker and began filming him, intending to create a short […]

Oct, 18 · in Reviews

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

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

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

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