Smart Words About Cinema
The death of Blake Edwards at the end of 2010, more than fifteen years after his last film work, was a reminder of a gaudy and maddening career which had been in a state of collapse for over a decade before it finished; and also of an undoubted auteur who needed to be rescued from [...]
[Originally published in Movietone News 35, September 1974] Ah, love, let us be true To one another! for the world… Hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light, Nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain; And we are here as on a darkling plain Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight, Where ignorant [...]
Blake Edwards died Dec. 15. This cine-bio entry, written in 1996 for an abortive project, has not been updated or revised. -RTJ One of Hollywood’s longest-running hyphenates – writer-producer-director – Blake Edwards has had an extraordinarily rich and extraordinarily uneven career. His best pictures are conceived and realized with a subtlety, elegance, and precision matched [...]
[Originally published in Movietone News 64-65, March 1980] Blake Edwards’s new film is really the oldest story in the world, done up with refreshing wit and literacy and the slightest touch of softcore porn. 10 is a balanced and honest look at romantic love and the sexual world of the artist as a prematurely middle-aged [...]