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On Her 70th Birthday, a Tribute to Faye Dunaway

John Farr | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Dustin Hoffman, Sydney Pollack, Joan Crawford, Academy Awards, William Holden, Gene Wilder, Michel Legrand, Mommie Dearest, Best Movies on DVD, Faye Dunaway, Katharine Hepburn, The Thomas Crown Affair, Best Movies by Farr, Gene Hackman, Robert Duvall, John Huston, Sidney Lumet, Peter Finch, Paddy Chayefsky, Warren Beatty, Hilary Duff, Bonnie and Clyde, Robert Evans, Arthur Penn, Steve McQueen, Robert Redford, Jack Nicholson, Roman Polanski, Entertainment News
John Farr

To paraphrase a famous quote: "Hilary -- I've seen you act, and I've seen Faye Dunaway act, and Miss Duff -- you're no Faye Dunaway." This truth is of course self-evident if you watch Faye in her prime.

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Dead Folks 2010: Everyone's Pushing Up Roses

Tallulah Morehead | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Stephen J. Cannell, Obituary, Art Gilmore, Leslie Nielsen, Ted Sorenson, Peter Graves, Paul Conrad, Robert Culp, Daryl F. Gates, Lynn Redgrave, Arthur Penn, J.D. Salinger, Rue McClanahan, James MacArthur, Bob Guccione, Jean Simmons, John Wooden, Alexander Haig, Kevin McCarthy, Tony Curtis, Solomon Burke, Celebrities, Fred Foy, Tom Bosley, Eddie Fisher, Edwin Newman, Barbara Billingsley, Gary Coleman, Jill Clayburgh, Dennis Hopper, Lena Horne, Art Linkletter, Fess Parker, Dino De Laurentiis, Patricia Neal, Gloria Stuart, Entertainment News
Tallulah Morehead

Happy New Year, darlings. All of you reading this piece have something in common: you survived 2010. Not everyone was so lucky, and a lot of people, as always, took the off-ramp from Life.

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Bisset, De Havilland & Kerr Feted by French Legion & BFI/TCM Festival to Open With Caron Classic

Penelope Andrew | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Jill Clayburgh, Penelope Andrew, Charles Laughton, Robert Osborne, Jacqueline Bisset, Bfi, Tcm, Olivia De Havilland, Deborah Kerr, Dennis Hopper, Women Film Critics Circle, TCM Film Festival, Luise Rainer, Henry Fonda, Barbara Stanwyck, Josephine Botting, Leslie Caron, Patricia Neal, Roger Ebert, Nick Nolte, Michael Powell, Pedro Almodovar, Arthur Penn, Maureen O'Hara, The British Film Institute, Entertainment News
Penelope Andrew

As late summer transformed into autumn, milestones in classic film, which focused primarily on iconic leading ladies, dominated the news and will be r...

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The Graduate Turns 73: Dustin Hoffman's Top Ten Movies

John Farr | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: The Graduate, Dustin Hoffman, Sydney Pollack, Hal Holbrook, Tootsie, Alan J. Pakula, Roy Scheider, Best Movies on DVD, Faye Dunaway, Lenny Bruce, Bob Fosse, Best Movies by Farr, Jessica Lange, Thirteen/WNET, Bill Murray, All the President?S Men, John Schlesinger, Charles Durning, Laurence Olivier, Mike Nichols, Meryl Streep, Anne Bancroft, Sam Peckinpah, Katherine Ross, Tom Cruise, Arthur Penn, Robert Benton, Jason Robards, Barry Levinson, Robert Redford, Entertainment News
John Farr

If you hear some young, unschooled person say, "Oh, Dustin Hoffman, he played Ben Stiller's kooky dad", point them towards the other memorable characters that more accurately reflect this performer's invaluable contribution to film.

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The Hard-Won Legacy of Gene Hackman

John Farr | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Robert Mitchum, Dustin Hoffman, The Academy Awards, Melanie Griffith, John Travolta, Peter Boyle, Morgan Freeman, Lee Marvin, Best Movies on DVD, Dennis Hopper, Best Movies by Farr, Richard Harris, Gene Hackman, Jimmy Breslin, Francis Ford Coppola, Clint Eastwood, Elmore Leonard, Nick Nolte, Frances McDormand, Warren Beatty, Willem Dafoe, James Gandolfini, Dennis Farina, Willliam Friedkin, Arthur Penn, Rene Russo, Steve McQueen, Entertainment News
John Farr

The story of Gene Hackman, who quietly turned eighty just two months ago, is one of raw will and talent overcoming a host of limitations that would have defeated most people.

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'Public Enemies' Reviewed

Michael Jones | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Christian Bale, Public Enemies, Johnny Depp, Michael Mann, Terrence Malick, John Dillinger Movie, Marion Cotillard, Bonnie and Clyde, Arthur Penn, Public Enemies Review, Chicago News
Michael Jones

Only in Hollywood, the Hollywood of blue-eyed Native Americans in old Westerns, would cast a Frenchwoman as a Native American from Wisconsin.

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Why Must We Still Wait Months To See First-Run Movies On DVD?

John Farr | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Kate Winslet, Avon Theatre, Rachel Getting Married, Academy Awards, Gene Wilder, Doubt-Movie-Review, Angelina Jolie, DVD Rentals, I've Loved You So Long, Dvds, DVD Sales, Movie Theaters, The Reader, First Run Exhibition, Lasse Hallstrom, Anne Hathaway, Slumdog Millionaire, Tim Robbins, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Multiplexes, The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, Changeling, Stamford, The Changeling, Chevy Chase, Meryl Streep, Best Movies of 2008, Robert Altman, Arthur Penn, Tell No One, Entertainment News
John Farr

The conventional thinking that a movie is best appreciated on a huge screen and in an assemblage of strangers no longer holds true when compared to a high-definition home theater.

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