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Posts Tagged "directorial debut"
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Ivan’s Childhood [Ivanovo Detstvo] ***** (1962, Nikolai Burlyayev, Valentin Zubkov, Evgeniy Zharikov) – Classic Movie Review 3567
Co-writer/director Andrei Tarkovsky’s scintillating and stunning 1962 first feature Ivan’s Childhood [Ivanovo Detstvo] is about the feisty and vengeful 12-year-old Russian boy Ivan Bondarev, played by Kolya Burlyayev [Nikolai Burlyayev], who works as a spy […]
Frauds *** (1993, Phil Collins, Hugo Weaving, Josephine Byrnes) – Classic Movie Review 3041
Writer-director Stephan Elliott’s 1993 Avengers-style fantasy comedy crime thriller stars a slightly struggling Phil Collins as Roland Copping, a sadistic insurance investigator who gets his kicks from manipulating people’s lives with outrageous games and gimmicks. He […]
Silent Running **** (1972, Bruce Dern, Cliff Potts, Ron Rifkin, Jesse Vint) – Classic Movie Review 2924
This nifty cult item is the 1972 directorial début of Douglas Trumbull, visual special effects supervisor wizard for 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977), Star Trek: The Motion Picture […]
Drive, He Said *** (1971, Bruce Dern, Karen Black, Michael Margotta, William Tepper) – Classic Movie Review 2884
Jack Nicholson co-writes (with Jeremy Larner, based on his novel), co-produces (with Steve Blauner) and makes his directorial debut in this 1971 campus-set, anti-establishment comedy drama. It expresses itself through a celebration of oddball characters, […]
The Great McGinty **** (1940, Brian Donlevy, Akim Tamiroff, William Demarest, Muriel Angelus) – Classic Movie Review 2624
Writer-director Preston Sturges grabs his first chance to direct a movie in a project from his own screenplay that went on to win the Academy Award for Best Writing Original Screenplay. He sold the story […]
Entourage *** (2015, Kevin Connolly, Adrian Grenier, Kevin Dillon, Jerry Ferrara, Jeremy Piven) – Movie Review
The eight-season TV series Entourage (2004–2011) is resurrected as a movie, Spooks-style, courtesy its creator Doug Ellin as writer-director and Mark Wahlberg as producer. Adrian Grenier returns as film star Vince Chase, who navigates the vapid […]
The Water Diviner *** (2014, Russell Crowe, Olga Kurylenko, Jai Courtney) – Movie Review
It’s good to see the gentler side of Russell Crowe for his good-hearted directorial debut. He also stars as an Australian farmer called Connor, who travels to Turkey in 1919 to try to locate his […]