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Entries Tagged as 'Ned Beatty'

The Incredible Shrinking Woman (1981, Joel Schumacher)

January 15th, 2009 · No Comments

I’m not sure I have the vocabulary to properly discuss The Incredible Shrinking Woman. It’s an experience–Ned Beatty was in Network and he appeared in this one? Sorry. Anyway, according the IMDb, the movie might have made money–in fact, it might have even been a hit. I always assumed it was an enormous failure, but […]

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Tagged: Charles Grodin· Jane Wagner· Joel Schumacher· John Glover· Ned Beatty· Richard Matheson· Universal Pictures· ⓏⒺⓇⓄ

In the Electric Mist (2008, Bertrand Tavernier)

January 7th, 2009 · 2 Comments

In the Electric Mist is a perfect example of how not to adapt a novel into a film. The source novel is the sixth novel in a series and the film–in a seemingly bold but utterly misguided move (much of it would be incoherent if I hadn’t once read the novel)–assumes the viewer is going […]

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Tagged: Bernard Tavernier· Image Entertainment· James Lee Burke· Jerzy Kromolowski· John Sayles· Mary Olson-Kromolowski· Ned Beatty· Tommy Lee Jones· ★½

Network (1976, Sidney Lumet)

March 31st, 2008 · No Comments

Network lost Oscars. It doesn’t really matter what it lost them to, because the absurdity of the Academy Awards is summed up in that one statement. Network lost Oscars.
I’m not sure what shot is Sidney Lumet’s best in the film, because I’m remembering two of them from the last half. These aren’t necessarily the best […]

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Tagged: Faye Dunaway· Ned Beatty· Paddy Chayefsky· Robert Duvall· Sidney Lumet· United Artists· William Holden· ★★★★

Superman II (1980, Richard Donner), the Richard Donner cut

March 21st, 2007 · No Comments

Superman II might just be broken. Watching “The Richard Donner Cut,” it’s an easy conclusion to come to–the greatly anticipated Marlon Brando scenes feature a callow, selfish Superman–not one who’s bursting with love for Lois Lane, like in the theatrical version. Also problematic is the utter lack of super–it’s a Superman movie, but this version […]

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Tagged: Christopher Reeve· David Newman· Gene Hackman· Jerry Siegel· Joe Shuster· Leslie Newman· Margot Kidder· Mario Puzo· Marlon Brando· Ned Beatty· Richard Donner· Susannah York· Tom Mankiewicz· Warner Bros.·

Superman (1978, Richard Donner)

March 8th, 2007 · No Comments

I love how the end of Superman, with the spinning back of the earth, causes so much trouble for people. My fiancée–before Marlon Brando had even gotten the kid into the spaceship–made me stop the movie twice (I had to tell her to stop, though I love her line about Superman having just as many […]

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Tagged: Christopher Reeve· David Newman· Gene Hackman· Glenn Ford· Jerry Siegel· Joe Shuster· Leslie Newman· Margot Kidder· Mario Puzo· Marlon Brando· Ned Beatty· Richard Donner· Robert Benton· Susannah York· Warner Bros.· ★★★★

All the President’s Men (1976, Alan J. Pakula)

July 12th, 2006 · No Comments

In an American history survey class, when we got to Nixon, one student asked if we could cover it. She felt we hadn’t covered it well enough. The professor said we would not be covering it–everyone knew it. He was–obviously–wrongly assuming some knowledge of history from college students, a foolish presumption (I have MFA instructors […]

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Tagged: Alan J. Pakula· Bob Woodward· Carl Bernstein· Dustin Hoffman· Hal Holbrook· Jack Warden· Jason Robards· Lindsay Crouse· Ned Beatty· Robert Redford· Warner Bros.· William Goldman· ★★★★

The Big Bus (1976, James Frawley)

April 16th, 2006 · No Comments

Maybe I just don’t like absurdist comedies. I can’t remember why I wanted to see The Big Bus originally–it just came up again last week–maybe because of director James Frawley (who directed The Muppet Movie), but I doubt it. I’ve seen a couple IMDb comments comparing the film to Airplane!, which came out four years […]

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Tagged: Fred Freeman· Howard Hesseman· James Frawley· Joseph Bologna· Lawrence J. Cohen· Ned Beatty· Paramount Pictures· Ruth Gordon· Stockard Channing· Stuart Margolin·

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