The Stunt Man opens with an exquisitely interconnected sequence, introducing all of the principals–Peter O’Toole, Barbara Hershey and Steve Railsback–while concentrating on Railsback. Hershey’s introduction, which turns out to be the first of director Rush’s muddling of reality, manages to be both blatant and muted. I wonder how it plays on someone’s first viewing of […]
Entries Tagged as 'Peter O'Toole'
Ratatouille (2007, Brad Bird)
July 2nd, 2007 · No Comments
While Ratatouille features Pixar’s finest three-dimensional CG, it also features their worst two dimensional characters. The problem’s apparent from the start–the main character has one conflict and it turns out to resolve itself quite easily in the end. There are other conflicts in the film, but they’re all external to the main character, Remy–whose name […]
Tagged: Brad Bird· Brian Dennehy· Emily Cook· Ian Holm· Jan Pinkava· Jim Capobianco· Kathy Greenberg· Peter O'Toole· Pixar Animation Studios· Walt Disney Pictures· ★★
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· ★★
