Derek Winnert

Where the Heart Is ** (1990, Dabney Coleman, Uma Thurman, Joanna Cassidy, Christopher Plummer, Crispin Glover) – Classic Movie Review 9271

Producer-director John Boorman’s 1990 comedy drama Where the Heart Is is a modern comedic New York version of King Lear, with Dabney Coleman as Stewart McBain, an arrogant builder real-estate mogul who kicks out his […]

Jan, 16 · in Uncategorized

A Question of Attribution **** (1991, James Fox, Prunella Scales, David Calder, Geoffrey Palmer) – Classic Movie Review 9270

‘Awfully able man, that’s the tragedy of it.’ A Question of Attribution (1991) is a careful and opulent transfer to film by director John Schlesinger of Alan Bennett’s witty and wise one-act play, with most […]

Jan, 16 · in Uncategorized

An Englishman Abroad **** (1983, Alan Bates, Coral Browne, Charles Gray) – Classic Movie Review 9269

Alan Bennett’s sharply witty screenplay for An Englishman Abroad (1983) is taken from the actress Coral Browne’s anecdote about how she met notorious spy traitor Guy Burgess in an Old Vic theatre exchange tour of […]

Jan, 16

England Made Me *** (1973, Peter Finch, Michael York, Hildegard Neil) – Classic Movie Review 9268

Director Peter Duffell’s 1972 England Made Me is a useful and intelligent, if slightly chilly version of Graham Greene’s fine early novel transposed to Seventies fashionable Nazi Germany from its original setting in Sweden. Michael […]

Jan, 16

Even Dwarfs Started Small [Auch Zwerge haben klein angefangen] *** (1970, Helmut Döring, Paul Glauer, Gisela Hertwig) – Classic Movie Review 9267

Writer-director Werner Herzog’s 1970 black and white comedy drama Even Dwarfs Started Small [Auch Zwerge haben klein angefangen] tells the story of a group of dwarfs at a correctional facility who start a riot and […]

Jan, 15

Where the Green Ants Dream [Wo die grünen Ameisen träumen] ** (1984, Bruce Spence, Wandjuk Marika, Roy Marika) – Classic Movie Review 9266

Writer-director Werner Herzog’s 1984 Where the Green Ants Dream [Wo die grünen Ameisen träumen] is a disappointing film from Herzog about Australian Aborigines clashing with uranium miners over rights to their land that they believe […]

Jan, 15

The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser [Jeder für sich und Gott gegen alle] **** (1974, Bruno S, Walter Ladengast, Brigitte Mira) – Classic Movie Review 9265

Writer-director Werner Herzog’s 1974 historical biographical drama The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser [Jeder für Sich und Gott gegen Alle] tells the real-life mystery of a weird young man called Kaspar Hauser (Bruno S, ideal) who […]

Jan, 15

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