Derek Winnert

Posts Tagged "philosophy"

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The Last Wave ***½ (1977, Richard Chamberlain, Olivia Hamnett, David Gulpilil) – Classic Movie Review 11,185

‘The dream that became a nightmare. His was a premonition of doom. Hasn’t the weather been strange… could it be a warning?’ Director Peter Weir’s serious-minded 1977 Australian apocalyptic thriller The Last Wave is a […]

May, 09

Lost Horizon (1973, Peter Finch, Liv Ullmann, Sally Kellerman, Bobby Van, George Kennedy, Michael York, Olivia Hussey, James Shigeta, John Gielgud) – Classic Movie Review 10,524

Director Charles Jarrott’s 1972 musical Lost Horizon was a British Royal Command Performance film and has a fine cast, but remaking Frank Capra’s 1937 classic Lost Horizon about an idyllic life in a Tibetan valley […]

Nov, 10

The Milky Way [La Voie Lactée] **** (1969, Laurent Terzieff, Paul Frankeur, Delphine Seyrig, Edith Scob, Alain Cuny, Bernard Verley, Michel Piccoli, Pierre Clémenti) – Classic Movie Review 9084

Co-writer/ director Luis Buñuel brings the full force of his wit and irony to bear on his attack against Catholicism in his 1969 comedy drama The Milky Way [La Voie Lactée], which focuses on the […]

Nov, 21

Lucky **** (2017, Harry Dean Stanton, David Lynch, Ron Livingston, Ed Begley, Tom Skerritt, James Darren) – Movie Review

The legendary star character actor Harry Dean Stanton stars in director John Carroll Lynch’s splendidly quirky 2017 bitter-sweet comedy drama as 90-year-old atheist Lucky, a no-messing US Navy veteran living successfully alone in an oddball […]

Sep, 15

Wittgenstein ***½ (1993, Karl Johnson, Michael Gough, Tilda Swinton, Clancy Chassay, John Quentin) – Classic Movie Review 6495

Director Derek Jarman’s 1993 film is a lively, humorous portrait of the gay Viennese-born, Cambridge-educated philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951), one of the most influential philosophers of the 20th-century, exploring his life, works and key ideas. They […]

Dec, 30

Nostalgia [Nostalghia] **** (1983, Oleg Yankovsky, Domiziana Giordano, Erland Josephson) – Classic Movie Review 4211

Director Andrei Tarkovsky’s haunting and elusive 1983 Soviet-Italian experimental film stars Oleg Yankovsky, Domiziana Giordano and Erland Josephson. Working in Italy in his first film outside Russia, with most of the dialogue in Italian, Tarkovsky co-writes the […]

Aug, 21

The Addiction **** (1995, Lili Taylor, Christopher Walken, Annabella Sciorra) – Classic Movie Review 1600

  Director Abel Ferrara’s rousing, moody, intelligent 1995 horror movie is a vampire parable, set in the 1930s. Lili Taylor is on scalding form as philosophy doctoral student Kathleen Conklin, who’s bitten by a female […]

Aug, 28

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