Derek Winnert

Posts Tagged "Hollywood satire"

Check out all of the posts tagged with "Hollywood satire".

The Goldwyn Follies *** (1938, Adolphe Menjou, Vera Zorina, Edgar Bergen, Andrea Leeds, Kenny Baker, Ella Logan, Helen Jepson, Bobby Clark, Ritz Brothers) – Classic Movie Review 12,405

Writer Ben Hecht’s entertaining 1938 Hollywood satire The Goldwyn Follies is the first Technicolor film produced by Samuel Goldwyn and the last film score written by George Gershwin. Directors George Marshall and (uncredited) H C […]

Jan, 22

I’ll Do Anything ** (1994, Nick Nolte, Albert Brooks, Whittni Wright, Tracey Ullman, Joely Richardson, Julie Kavner, Ian McKellen) – Classic Movie Review 8448

Writer-director James L Brooks’s 1994 romantic comedy drama I’ll Do Anything went awry and was a troubled production. It was made as a musical until test audiences rejected it, and the last-minute cutting has damaged […]

May, 08

S.O.B. **** (1981, Julie Andrews, William Holden, Marisa Berenson) – Classic Movie Review 8293

Writer-director Blake Edwards takes his revenge on Hollywood in his 1981 black farce S.O.B. about a film producer’s ploy to turn a flop into a hit: get Julie Andrews to bare her breasts! S.O.B. is […]

Mar, 24

The Big Picture *** (1988, Kevin Bacon, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Emily Longstreth, J T Walsh, Michael McKean, Teri Hatcher, Martin Short, John Cleese) – Classic Movie Review 7893

Director Christopher Guest’s winning 1988 comedy The Big Picture stars Kevin Bacon as award-winning film school graduate Nick Chapman, who arrives at the office of horrible movie boss Allen Habel (J T Walsh) desperate to make […]

Dec, 07

Hollywood or Bust * (1956, Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis, Anita Ekberg, Pat Crowley, Maxie Rosenbloom) – Classic Movie Review 7451

Director Frank Tashlin’s 1956 comedy Hollywood or Bust is the final Dean Martin-Jerry Lewis movie together. Sadly, it is a feeble satirical farce on life in Hollywood, in which Martin plays the broke singer Steve Wiley, […]

Aug, 16

Inside Daisy Clover ***½ (1965, Natalie Wood, Christopher Plummer, Robert Redford, Ruth Gordon, Roddy McDowall) – Classic Movie Review 5,308

The polished 1965 Hollywood satire drama film Inside Daisy Clover stars a fine team in Natalie Wood, Christopher Plummer, and Robert Redford and Ruth Gordon, who won Golden Globes. Reputedly Robert Redford did not want […]

Apr, 17

Cecil B DeMented **½ (2000, Melanie Griffith, Stephen Dorff, Alicia Witt, Adrian Grenier, Maggie Gyllenhall) – Classic Movie Review 4005

Writer-director John Waters’s suitably demented 2000 comedy stars Stephen Dorff as guerrilla film director Cecil B DeMented. As usual with Waters, it is set in his home town of Baltimore. DeMented and his band of cinema revolutionaries […]

Jul, 12

Navigation

Please use the navigation to move within this section.