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Entries Tagged as 'Lorenzo Semple Jr.'

Three Days of the Condor (1975, Sydney Pollack)

July 26th, 2009 · No Comments

The espionage genre has gotten so stupid over the last couple decades, it’s hard to even imagine how a mediocre entry could be good. Now, it’s watching the least worst. Three Days of the Condor is such a peculiar film, even though it’s wholly commercial–I mean, Dino De Laurentiis produced it.
It’s not just a spy […]

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Tagged: David Rayfiel· Faye Dunaway· James Grady· John Houseman· Lorenzo Semple Jr.· Max von Sydow· Paramount Pictures· Robert Redford· Sydney Pollack· ★★½

King Kong (1976, John Guillermin)

December 26th, 2008 · No Comments

In 2001, the Academy awarded Dino De Laurentiis the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial award. The clips ran from the beginning of his career to the present–I can’t remember if Body of Evidence got a clip–and I kept waiting to see how they’d deal with Kong. The De Laurentiis produced remake is either forgotten or derided, […]

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Tagged: Charles Grodin· Ed Lauter· Edgar Wallace· James Ashmore Creelman· Jeff Bridges· Jessica Lange· John Guillermin· Lorenzo Semple Jr.· Merian C. Cooper· Paramount Pictures· Ruth Rose· ★★★

The Drowning Pool (1975, Stuart Rosenberg)

July 17th, 2007 · No Comments

The Drowning Pool is a strange sequel. Not only doesn’t it continue Harper’s attempt to make PIs hip and modern (more hip than modern, actually), it’s also doesn’t seem like the same character. In Drowning Pool, Newman’s Harper is the standard 1970s Newman character. He’s sick of the world, but he can’t quite give up […]

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Tagged: Joanne Woodward· Lorenzo Semple Jr.· Murray Hamilton· Paul Newman· Ross Macdonald· Stuart Rosenberg· Tracy Keenan Wynn· Walter Hill· Warner Bros.· ★★½

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