Archive for tag: Faye Dunaway
19 October, 2011 (17:06) | by Richard T. Jameson, Film Reviews | By: Richard T. Jameson
[Originally published in Movietone News 40, April 1975] The Four Musketeers cannot be recommended to anyone who hasn’t seen The Three Musketeers. On the other hand, you haven’t seen The Three until you’ve seen The Four; and once you’ve seen The Four, The Three becomes a much better movie. They’re all one movie, really, and [...]
Tags: Angel del Pozo, Charlton Heston, Christopher Lee, David Watkin, Faye Dunaway, Frank Finlay, George Macdonald Fraser, Geraldine Chaplin, Jean-Pierre Cassel, llya Salkind, Michael Gothard, Michael York, Movietone News 40, Nicole Calfan, Oliver Reed, Raquel Welch, Richard Chamberlain, Richard Lester, Roy Kinnear, Simon Ward, The Four Musketeers | No comments
19 October, 2011 (12:03) | by Richard T. Jameson, Film Reviews | By: Richard T. Jameson
[Originally published in Movietone News 31, April 1974] The Three Musketeers opens with an auspiciousness I haven’t experienced since the first image and chords of 2001: Against a dark, featureless background and in a light that seems to have seeped out of a pearl, a hand seizes the hilt of a heavy sword and slowly [...]
Tags: Angel del Pozo, Charlton Heston, Christopher Lee, David Watkin, Faye Dunaway, Frank Finlay, George Macdonald Fraser, Georges Wilson, Geraldine Chaplin, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Joss Ackland, llya Salkind, Michael Gothard, Michael York, Movietone News 31, Nicole Calfan, Oliver Reed, Raquel Welch, Richard Chamberlain, Richard Lester, Roy Kinnear, Simon Ward, Spike Milligan, The Three Musketeers | No comments
18 August, 2010 (07:52) | by Richard T. Jameson, Film Reviews, John Carpenter | By: Richard T. Jameson
[Originally published in Movietone News 58-59, August 1978] Give Jon Peters full credit, he’s honest with his audience. At the beginning of A Star Is Born a voice called out advising “all you assholes out there” that the show wasn’t about to get under way until everyone quieted down, and Jon’n’Barbra proceeded to treat their [...]
Tags: Brad Dourif, Eyes of Laura Mars, Faye Dunaway, Irvin Kershner, Movietone News 58-59, Raul Julia, René Auberjonois, Tommy Lee Jones | No comments
10 October, 2008 (00:12) | by Richard T. Jameson, Essays, Film Reviews, Roman Polanski | By: Richard T. Jameson
[originally published in Movietone News no. 33, July 1974] THE TITLES, shadow-masked to the old 1.33 format, roll up against a grey moderne background and give way to a series of black-and-white still photos. In the photos a man and a woman are making love, awkwardly, with their clothes on, in the woods. We hear [...]
Tags: Chinatown, Faye Dunaway, Jack Nicholson, The Big Sleep | 1 comment