Derek Winnert

Posts Tagged "directorial debut"

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Fear and Desire ** (1953, Frank Silvera, Paul Mazursky, Virginia Leith) – Classic Movie Review 1632

Co-writer/director Stanley Kubrick’s eye-catching, attention-grabbing first low-budget feature, made in 1953, is an almost abstract war story made when he was 25 with money from relatives and friends. Frank Silvera, Paul Mazursky, Kenneth Harp and […]

Sep, 03

The Boys * (1998, David Wenham, Toni Collette) – Classic Movie Review 1491

Debut director Rowan Woods’s 1998 release is a very extreme, slow-moving and repulsive Australian film about a psychopathically violent crook released on parole after serving a sentence for assault. He comes home to a Sydney household […]

Jul, 29

Shallow Grave **** (1994, Kerry Fox, Christopher Eccleston, Ewan McGregor) – Classic Movie Review 1059

Danny Boyle’s cinema directorial debut Shallow Grave finds shy chartered accountant David (Christopher Eccleston) losing his mind and making the attic his home and surveillance place. He bores holes in the attic floor to spy […]

Apr, 05

This Sporting Life ***** (1963, Richard Harris, Rachel Roberts, Alan Badel, William Hartnell) – Classic Movie Review 190

All-time great British director Lindsay Anderson’s searing film This Sporting Life is an authentic British classic of the short-lived but influential and vibrant 60s realist new wave movement. Kitchen sink drama, it was called back then. […]

Aug, 25

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