Derek Winnert

A Perfect Couple **** (1979, Paul Dooley, Marta Heflin, Titos Vandis) – Classic Movie Review 7535

Director Robert Altman’s zany 1979 romantic comedy A Perfect Couple is appealing and effervescent movie, in which the repressed, middle-aged, divorced Greek-American cook/ antique dealer Alex Theodopoulos (Paul Dooley) is computer-dated with much younger rock […]

Sep, 03 · in Reviews

Streamers **** (1983, Matthew Modine, Michael Wright, Mitchell Lichtenstein) – Classic Movie Review 7534

Boldly treating the cinema screen like a theatre stage, director Robert Altman films his 1983 success Streamers on a single location – the army barracks dormitory where a group of young US recruits are waiting […]

Sep, 03 · in Reviews

Quintet * (1979, Paul Newman, Bibi Andersson, Vittorio Gassman, Fernando Rey) – Classic Movie Review 7533

In the same year as he did the successful romantic comedy A Perfect Couple, director Robert Altman made this disastrous sci-fi mystery muddle Quintet (1979), set during a distant future inhospitable ice age, with Paul […]

Sep, 03

Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull’s History Lesson ** (1976, Paul Newman, Joel Grey, Kevin McCarthy) – Classic Movie Review 7532

Producer-director Robert Altman takes an ironic look at American history in the 1976 Western movie Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull’s History Lesson, satirising American popular culture with the help of a top […]

Sep, 02

Buffalo Bill *** (1944, Joel McCrea, Maureen O’Hara, Linda Darnell, Thomas Mitchell, Edgar Buchanan, Anthony Quinn) – Classic Movie Review 7531

Director William Wellman’s 1944 Buffalo Bill stars Joel McCrea, who gives one of his best performances as the fabled Wild West showman, scout and Indian supporter William F Cody. Wellman’s fine Western often abandons the […]

Sep, 02

Go West Young Man *** (1936, Mae West, Warren William, Randolph Scott, Alice Brady) – Classic Movie Review 7530

Director Henry Hathaway’s 1936 comedy Go West Young Man stars Mae West, who takes over the star role from a 1934 Broadway hit play called Personal Appearance by Lawrence Riley (which featured Gladys George), as […]

Sep, 02

The Laughing Policeman **** (1973, Walter Matthau, Bruce Dern, Louis Gossett Jr, Albert Paulsen, Anthony Zerbe) – Classic Movie Review 7,529

Rousing performances from Walter Matthau as an obsessed San Francisco police detective and Bruce Dern as his boorish, annoying new partner enliven Stuart Rosenberg’s energetic, exciting 1973 cop thriller The Laughing Policeman.  Rousing performances from […]

Sep, 02

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