Derek Winnert

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Man Without a Star **** (1955, Kirk Douglas, Jeanne Crain, Claire Trevor) – Classic Movie Review 7030

Director King Vidor’s 1955 Western rounds up the usual familiar Fifties ingredients: Kirk Douglas as a lonesome cowboy and a stock situation in which his roving drifter character Dempsey Rae works as foreman for a female […]

May, 10

Stalker ****½ (1979, Aleksandr Kaydanovskiy, Anatoliy Solonitsyn, Alisa Freyndlikh) – Classic Movie Review 4210

Director-cinematographer Andrei Tarkovsky’s brilliantly cerebral, uniquely disturbing 1979 Russian film tells a tantalisingly oblique and mystifying story about about a Stalker (Aleksandr Kaydanovskiy) who guides two intellectuals through the so-called Zone, a forbidden area of […]

Aug, 21

My Friend Flicka *** (1943, Roddy McDowall, Preston Foster, Rita Johnson, James Bell, Jeff Corey, Diana Hale) – Classic Movie Review 3463

Director Harold Schuster’s very pleasing 1943 family feature is based on the novel Mary O’Hara and features a lovely performance by Roddy ­McDowall, aged 15. The Technicolor shots of the Rockies farm lands are another huge […]

Mar, 11

War Horse **** (2011, Jeremy Irvine, Emily Watson, David Thewlis, Tom Hiddleston, Benedict Cumberbatch, Eddie Marsan, Toby Kebbell, David Kross, Peter Mullan) – Classic Movie Review 3048

Steven Spielberg’s solidly crafted 2011 British-American war drama War Horse is a guaranteed heart-tugger, with a decent screenplay by Lee Hall and Richard Curtis adapting Michael Morpurgo’s 1982 children’s novel set around World War One. […]

Nov, 09

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