Derek Winnert

Posts Tagged "new york city"

Check out all of the posts tagged with "new york city".

Any Wednesday ** (1966, Jane Fonda, Jason Robards, Dean Jones, Rosemary Murphy) – Classic Movie Review 7547

‘It’s got some new ideas about multiple dwelling!’ Director Robert Ellis Miller’s 1966 comedy Any Wednesday turns a thin but affable Broadway farce by Muriel Resnik into a thin but affable movie – with the bright […]

Sep, 06

A Thousand Clowns **** (1965, Jason Robards Jr, Barbara Harris, Martin Balsam, Gene Saks, William Daniels) – Classic Movie Review 7483

Producer-director Fred Coe’s 1965 comedy A Thousand Clowns is an adaptation of Herb Gardner’s 1962 play about an eccentric, non-conformist comedy writer forced to conform to society to retain custody of his nephew. Jason Robards Jr starred […]

Aug, 22

Plaza Suite *** (1971, Walter Matthau, Maureen Stapleton, Barbara Harris, Lee Grant) – Classic Movie Review 7.482

Neil Simon adapts his stage hit Plaza Suite but was unhappy with the film, thinking the idea of one actor playing the lead in all three acts didn’t work on screen, and that Walter Matthau […]

Aug, 22

Skate Kitchen **** (2018, Rachelle Vinberg, Nina Moran, Jaden Smith) – Movie Review

Co-writer/ co-producer/ director Crystal Moselle’s vibrant and alive Skate Kitchen (2018) boasts a rich, dynamic and truthful performance by Rachelle Vinberg as Camille, a lonely 18-year-old Long Island suburban teenaged skateboarder who makes friends with a posse of girl […]

Aug, 13

Mister Buddwing * (1966, James Garner, Jean Simmons, Suzanne Pleshette, Angela Lansbury, Katharine Ross) – Classic Movie Review 7435

The 1966 movie Mister Buddwing stars James Garner as a man who comes round on a park seat in New York’s Central Park and cannot remember who he is. Garner recalled: ‘Worst picture I ever […]

Aug, 12

The Racketeer [Love’s Conquest ] *** (1929, Robert Armstrong, Carole Lombard, Roland Drew) – Classic Movie Review 7380

Director Howard Higgin’s 1929 Pre-Code love triangle crime melodrama The Racketeer (known as Love’s Conquest in the UK, where it was banned by the British Board of Film Censors and only passed in 1930 after being cut by seven minutes) tells the tale of criminals […]

Jul, 31

My Sister Eileen **** (1955, Janet Leigh, Jack Lemmon, Betty Garrett, Bob Fosse, Kurt Kasznar, Horace McMahon, Dick York, Tommy Rall) – Classic Movie Review 7260

Wacky Betty Garrett and alluring Janet Leigh star as Ohio country girls Ruth and Eileen Sherwood in co-writer/ director Richard Quine’s 1955 musical remake of Rosalind Russell’s 1942 comedy My Sister Eileen about the adventures […]

Jul, 06

Navigation

Please use the navigation to move within this section.