I’m a little surprised Donna Summer did the theme song for The Deep, seeing as how she’s black and, according to The Deep, every black person is a villain of some kind or another.
Even with his blond locks, I’ve never thought of Nick Nolte as particularly aryan (maybe because his eyes are so brown), but […]
Entries Tagged as 'Eli Wallach'
Article 99 (1992, Howard Deutch)
July 7th, 2008 · No Comments
Director of not one, not two, but three 1980s John Hughes movies, Howard Deutch applies those hard-earned skills to remaking M*A*S*H and, shockingly, doesn’t do too bad of a job. Sure, Article 99 is absurd and Lea Thompson as a doctor is a hoot, but its well-intentioned and sensitive to its characters. I’d heard of […]
Tagged: Eli Wallach· Forest Whitaker· Howard Deutch· Keith David· Kiefer Sutherland· Orion Pictures· Ray Liotta· Ron Cutler· ★★
The Magnificent Seven (1960, John Sturges)
May 2nd, 2007 · No Comments
Apparently, no director has ever needed a good script more than John Sturges. His work in The Magnificent Seven is static, the camera as disinterested in the film’s goings-on as the majority of the cast. He lets the camera sit and stare, cutting when it wakes up from its nap. He also appears not to […]
Tagged: Charles Bronson· Eli Wallach· Hashimoto Shinobu· John Sturges· Kurosawa Akira· Oguni Hideo· Robert Vaughn· Steve McQueen· United Artists· William Roberts· Yul Brynner· ⓏⒺⓇⓄ
How to Steal a Million (1966, William Wyler)
December 3rd, 2005 · No Comments
I think I might hate ‘cute.’ Or at least the pseudo-realistic ‘cute’ that permeated film through the 1950s and 1960s, when the films became so much about enjoying the actors’ charisma, there was no sense of any reality to the films’ situations and conflicts. In that way, How to Steal a Million is an interesting […]
Tagged: 20th Century Fox· Audrey Hepburn· Charles Boyer· Eli Wallach· George Bradshaw· Harry Kurnitz· Peter O'Toole· William Wyler· ★★
