Derek Winnert

The Big Parade [Da yue bing] **** (1986, Wang Xueqi, Sun Chun, Lei Lu) – Classic Movie Review 7886

Director Chen Kaige’s 1986 The Big Parade [Da yue bing] is a Chinese film with a subject that is familiar and easy to relate to – an army drama in which a large group of […]

Dec, 05 · in Reviews

Yellow Earth [Huang Tu Di] **** (1984, Xueqi Wang, Xue Bai, Tan Tuo, Liu Qiang) – Classic Movie Review 7885

Director Chen Kaige’s remarkable and challenging 1984 Chinese film Yellow Earth [Huang Tu Di] is based on the novel by Lan Ke about a communist soldier, Quing Gu (Xueqi Wang), who comes to a tiny […]

Dec, 05 · in Reviews

The Devil’s Own * (1997, Harrison Ford, Brad Pitt, Margaret Colin, Rubén Blades, Treat Williams, George Hearn, Mitchell Ryan, Natascha McElhone, Julia Stiles) – Classic Movie Review 7884

Director Alan J Pakula’s The Devil’s Own (1997) is a poor and diabolically misguided action crime drama using the IRA, gunmen and terrorism as a subject for thriller entertainment. Brad Pitt makes the mistake of playing deadly […]

Dec, 05

Regeneration [Behind the Lines] **** (1997, Jonathan Pryce, James Wilby, Jonny Lee Miller, Stuart Bunce, Tanya Allen, David Hayman, Dougray Scott, John Neville) Classic Movie Review 7883

Jonathan Pryce gives a career-best performance as the psychiatrist who tries to rehabilitate shell-shocked World War One veterans, including war poet Siegfried Sassoon (James Wilby). Director Gillies MacKinnon’s 1997 British-Canadian co-production Regeneration [Behind the Lines] […]

Dec, 05

Regarding Henry ** (1991, Harrison Ford, Annette Bening) – Classic Movie Review 7882

Director Mike Nichols reunites with his Working Girl star Harrison Ford for the much less exciting 1991 Regarding Henry. Ford stars as heartless hotshot lawyer Henry Turner, who is shot in a holdup. Bening also […]

Dec, 05

The Story of Qiu Ju [Qiu Ju da guan si] **** (1992, Gong Li, Liu Peiqi, Yang Liuchun, Lei Kesheng) – Classic Movie Review 7881

Director Zhang Yimou’s 1992 The Story of Qiu Ju [Qiu Ju da guan si] is a strongly allegorical tale from the director of Red Sorghum, Ju Dou and Raise the Red Lantern, which differs from […]

Dec, 04

Ju Dou [Judou] **** (1990, Gong Li, Li Wei, Zhang Yi) – Classic Movie Review 7880

Director Zhang Yimou’s 1990 film Ju Dou [Judou] is an engrossing Chinese-Japanese drama about an old man, a dye maker called Yang Jin-shan (Li Wei), coping with his gorgeous, young flirtatious new wife Ju Dou (the […]

Dec, 04

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