Derek Winnert

Posts Tagged "Oscar-nominated"

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Afterglow **** (1997, Nick Nolte, Julie Christie, Lara Flynn Boyle, Jonny Lee Miller) – Classic Movie Review 12,144

Julie Christie was Oscar nominated as Best Actress and won several international awards for her standout performance in Alan Rudolph’s 1997 romantic comedy-drama film gem Afterglow. Writer-director Alan Rudolph’s civilised, freewheeling, attractively offbeat 1997 romantic […]

May, 29

Loving Vincent **** (2017, voice of Douglas Booth, Chris O’Dowd, Helen McCrory, Saoirse Ronan, John Sessions) – Movie Review

‘I should one day like to show by my work what such an eccentric, such a nobody, has in his heart.’ – Vincent van Gogh. Writer-director Dorota Kobiela and Hugh Welchman’s superlative Oscar nominated animated feature film about […]

Oct, 02

Tangerines [Mandariinid] **** (2013, Lembit Ulfsak, Elmo Nüganen, Giorgi Nakashidze) – Movie Review

Lembit Ulfsak is extraordinary as elderly Estonian man Ivo, who has stayed behind with his buddy Marcus to harvest his crop of tangerines in evacuated, war-torn in Georgia, Apkhazeti region, in 1990. Apkhazians are fighting to break […]

Sep, 20

Champion **** (1949, Kirk Douglas, Arthur Kennedy, Marilyn Maxwell, Paul Stewart, Ruth Roman, Lola Albright) – Classic Movie Review 2365

Director Mark Robson’s ultra-gripping classic 1949 boxing drama about ruthless rising to fame in the fight game provided Kirk Douglas with his first out of three Best Actor Oscar nominations. Although in the event the […]

Apr, 06

Heavenly Creatures **** (1994, Kate Winslet, Melanie Lynskey) – Classic Movie Review 1701

  Co-writer/director Peter Jackson’s 1994 thriller stars the 18-year-old Kate Winslet, who gets her first big break and makes her startling and auspicious big-screen debut in this deservedly acclaimed real-life murder drama. It’s also fascinating […]

Sep, 21

August: Osage County (Streep/Roberts) – Film Review

A stagey, sub-Tennessee Williams family drama unfolds as all the skeletons come out of the closet when nasty, cancer-stricken, dysfunctional matriarch Violet Weston (Meryl Streep)’s family gather at their Oklahoma house for the patrirch’s funeral […]

Jan, 22

Sunday, Bloody Sunday ***** (1971, Peter Finch, Glenda Jackson, Murray Head, Peggy Ashcroft) – Classic Movie Review 680

Glenda Jackson and Peter Finch won Bafta awards for Best Actress and Best Actor, and were Oscar nominated for their sensitive performances in John Schlesinger’s strongly felt, personal 1971 drama film Sunday, Bloody Sunday.  Peter […]

Jan, 12

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