Derek Winnert

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Far North ** (1988, Jessica Lange, Charles Durning, Tess Harper, Donald Moffat, Ann Wedgeworth, Patricia Arquette) – Classic Movie Review 9184

Jessica Lange stars in the gentle 1988 family comedy-drama Far North, written and directed by her partner, Pulitzer Prize-Winning playwright Sam Shepard, about a New York career woman who returns home after her father (Charles […]

Dec, 22

The Vanishing *** (1993, Jeff Bridges, Kiefer Sutherland, Nancy Travis, Sandra Bullock) – Classic Movie Review 8992

For his 1993 remake The Vanishing, director George Sluizer Hollywoodises his 1988 Dutch psychological horror thriller The Vanishing [Spoorloos] and adds an extra female character (a spunky girlfriend for the hero) and a different ending. […]

Oct, 17

Three Colors: White [Trois Couleurs: Blanc] **** (1994, Zbigniew Zamachowski, Julie Delpy, Janusz Gajos, Jerzy Stuhr, Jerzy Trela) – Classic Movie Review 8720

Three Colors: White [Trois Couleurs: Blanc] (1994), the second part of Krzysztof Kieslowski’s trilogy (after the 1993 Three Colours: Blue) is billed as ‘A Comedy’, but there is no impression anywhere in the movie of […]

Jul, 16

Mortelle Randonnée [Deadly Run] [Deadly Circuit] **** (1983, Michel Serrault, Isabelle Adjani, Guy Marchand, Guy Marchand, Stéphane Audran, Macha Méril, Geneviève Page, Sami Frey) – Classic Movie Review 8680

Director Claude Miller’s 1983 Deadly Run [Mortelle Randonnée] is a riveting, ostentatiously showy French romantic crime mystery thriller with Isabelle Adjani starring as Catherine Leiris, a pathological serial killer whose trail of corpses is pursued […]

Jul, 06

A Zed & Two Noughts **** (1985, Brian Deacon, Eric Deacon, Andréa Ferréol, Frances Barber, Jim Davidson) = Classic Movie Review 8654

Director Peter Greenaway’s 1985 film A Zed & Two Noughts is more like a diagram than a narrative, overflowing with symbols and puns, and underpinned by the memorable Michael Nyman soundtrack. A surgeon covets the […]

Jun, 29

The Legend of Lylah Clare ** (1968, Kim Novak, Peter Finch, Ernest Borgnine) – Classic Movie Review 8463

The 1968 drama The Legend of Lylah Clare is an unloved, bizarre and unbelievable film from director Robert Aldrich, in which a sexy starlet (Kim Novak) is supposed to be the dead ringer for a […]

May, 13

Greta ** (2018, Isabelle Huppert, Chloë Grace Moretz, Maika Monroe) – Movie Review

Chloë Grace Moretz stars as nice, earnest young Frances McCullen, who finds a handbag on the New York subway and returns it to its owner, lonely widow Greta Hideg (Isabelle Huppert), who, it is soon […]

Apr, 21

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