Derek Winnert

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 · in Reviews

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 · in Reviews

Raise the Red Lantern [Da hong deng long gao gao gua] ***** (1991, Gong Li, Ma Jingwu, He Caifei) – Classic Movie Review 7879

Director Zhang Yimou’s 1991 Raise the Red Lantern [Da hong deng long gao gao gua] is a visually beautiful, exquisitely acted film set in Twenties China among the concubines of a rich clan leader, Chen Zuoqian, […]

Dec, 04

Red Sorghum [Hong gao liang] ***** (1988, Gong Li, Jiang Wen, Teng Rujun) – Classic Movie Review 7878

Director Zhang Yimou’s dazzlingly brilliant 1988 Red Sorghum [Hong gao liang] is a masterly epic drama from China that charts the life of a teenage bride (Gong Li), from her wedding in the 1930s up […]

Dec, 03

The Glimmer Man ** (1996, Steven Seagal, Keenen Ivory Wayans, Bob Gunton, Brian Cox) – Classic Movie Review 7877

Steven Seagal stars in the above-par 1996 action movie The Glimmer Man as a New York cop on a serial killer murder case. Bob Gunton and Brian Cox play their bad guy roles entertainingly. Steven […]

Dec, 03

The Glenn Miller Story **** (1954, James Stewart, June Allyson, Harry Morgan, Charles Drake, Frances Langford, Louis Armstrong, Gene Krupa, George Tobias, Barton MacLane, Sig Ruman) – Classic Movie Review 7876

Director Anthony Mann’s 1954 musical biopic The Glenn Miller Story stars James Stewart, who is ideal casting both as actor and as a Glenn Miller lookalike. Stewart conducts himself on screen with his customary easy-going charm and […]

Dec, 03

Strategic Air Command *** (1955, James Stewart, June Allyson, Frank Lovejoy) – Classic Movie Review 7875

Director Anthony Mann’s 1955 Strategic Air Command stars James Stewart as Lieutenant Colonel Robert ‘Dutch’ Holland, who sacrifices his baseball career to join the US Air Force and fly A-bomb jets, while his sweet wife […]

Dec, 03

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