Derek Winnert

Powaqqatsi **** (1988, director Godfrey Reggio) – Classic Movie Review 10,148

Director Godfrey Reggio’s 1988 documentary Powaqqatsi is the very welcome sequel to Koyaanisqatsi (1982), with another extraordinary Philip Glass score. It is a collage of scenes of cultures around the globe, showing how the Third […]

Aug, 08 · in Reviews

Pony Express *** (1953, Charlton Heston, Rhonda Fleming, Jan Sterling, Forrest Tucker) – Classic Movie Review 10,147

Director Jerry Hopper’s 1953 Western film Pony Express stars Charlton Heston and Forrest Tucker as Buffalo Bill Cody and Wild Bill Hickok, who try to found the Pony Express amid the hostility of stagecoach station […]

Aug, 08 · in Reviews

Popi ***½ (1969, Alan Arkin, Rita Moreno, Reuben Figueroa) – Classic Movie Review 10,146

The 1969 film Popi is a touching, lovingly made, offbeat comedy about Abraham, a Puerto Rican father (Alan Arkin), a single parent with two boys. He is worried about his life with his sexy girlfriend […]

Aug, 08

La Chienne ***** (1931, Michel Simon, Janie Marèse, Georges Flamant) – Classic Movie Review 10,145

Bank clerk Maurice Legrand (Michel Simon), married to ghastly Adèle (Magdeleine Bérubet), murders his faithless prostitute-mistress Lulu (Janie Marèse), then pins the blame on her pimp Dede (Georges Flamant) whom she loves, in director Jean […]

Aug, 08

A Lovely Way to Die ** (1968, Kirk Douglas, Sylva Koscina, Eli Wallach) – Classic Movie Review 10,144

Director David Lowell Rich’s 1968 mystery crime drama A Lovely Way To Die [A Lovely Way to Go] is an interestingly peculiar pot pourri of a film, in which wily district attorney Tennessee Fredericks (Eli […]

Aug, 07

Goodbye, Columbus *** (1969, Richard Benjamin, Ali MacGraw, Jack Klugman) – Classic Movie Review 10,143

Director Larry Peerce’s 1969 comedy drama of class differences Goodbye, Columbus stars Richard Benjamin as librarian Neil Klugman, who romances rich gal Brenda Patimkin (Ali MacGraw) in 1950s New York suburbs, and upsets her parents. […]

Aug, 07

Portnoy’s Complaint * (1972, Richard Benjamin, Karen Black, Lee Grant) – Classic Movie Review 10,142

Philip Roth’s scandalous book about a neurotic Jewish boy’s troubles with his mother and sex is turned into the none-too-funny, mostly unmoving 1972 film Portnoy’s Complaint by esteemed writer Ernest Lehman in his directorial début. […]

Aug, 07

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