The Royal Tenenbaums is a profound examination of the human condition. It’s hard to think about Tenenbaums, which Anderson made as a precious object–he tends to put the actors on the right and fill the left side of the frame with exactly placed sundries, sometimes it’s the carefully placed minutiae, but he usually puts those […]
Entries Tagged as 'Alec Baldwin'
The Royal Tenenbaums (2001, Wes Anderson)
March 30th, 2009 · No Comments
Tagged: Alec Baldwin· Ben Stiller· Bill Murray· Danny Glover· Gene Hackman· Luke Wilson· Owen Wilson· Touchstone Pictures· Wes Anderson· ★★★★
The Last Shot (2004, Jeff Nathanson)
March 21st, 2008 · No Comments
The Last Shot is a comedy–and a funny one–but I’m not sure it qualifies as a story. It’s an idea for a movie–the FBI fakes producing a movie to catch mobsters, hiring Hollywood wannabes without telling them–but Nathanson’s execution of the idea is flawed. Alec Baldwin’s FBI agent is lying to would-be director Matthew Broderick […]
Tagged: Alec Baldwin· Buck Henry· Buena Vista Pictures· Jeff Nathanson· Ray Liotta· Steve Fishman· Tim Blake Nelson· Toni Collette· ⓏⒺⓇⓄ
The Departed (2006, Martin Scorsese)
December 14th, 2007 · 1 Comment
It’s hilarious, of course, Scorsese finally won an Oscar for the film least like his work. The Departed is the really serious movie Mel Gibson and Richard Donner never got around to making in the late 1990s… but Scorsese–I don’t know if Scorsese adds something to the mix or if he just knew how to […]
Tagged: Alec Baldwin· Felix Chong· Jack Nicholson· Mak Siu-fai· Martin Scorsese· Matt Damon· Ray Winstone· Warner Bros.· William Monahan· ★★★★
Malice (1993, Harold Becker)
September 20th, 2007 · No Comments
Malice starts relatively okay, but it’s got a terribly flawed first half. Until the point Bill Pullman takes over as lead character, especially as Alec Baldwin and Nicole Kidman are spiraling through their lawsuit, it seems like Malice is going to be a well-produced disaster. It’s well-made, reasonably well-directed–Becker does a good job for the […]
Tagged: Aaron Sorkin· Alec Baldwin· Anne Bancroft· Bebe Neuwirth· Bill Pullman· Columbia Pictures· George C. Scott· Harold Becker· Jonas McCord· Scott Frank· ★★
The Shadow (1994, Russell Mulcahy)
July 14th, 2005 · No Comments
The Shadow not a perfect film, but there’s so much good about it. Besides that its great cast–Jonathan Winters is the only weak link–besides that its beautifully constructed screenplay–the best constructed one I can think of… I haven’t seen this film since the theater, so I was sixteen. I don’t remember liking it. I didn’t […]
Tagged: Alec Baldwin· David Koepp· Penelope Ann Miller· Peter Boyle· Russell Mulcahy· Universal Pictures· Walter B. Gibson· ★★★
