‘Islands in the Stream’: capturing a great writer’s work on film
From Sept. 1, 2011 – It’s an understatement to say that Ernest Hemingway was not well served by Hollywood. “The Sun Also Rises,” “The Snows of Kilimanjaro,” “The Old Man and the Sea,” “For Whom the...
View Article‘Hemingway & Gellhorn’: stars enliven campy, hyperbolic biopic
Most of my writer friends with HBO were appalled by “Hemingway & Gellhorn” when it premiered on the cable giant last year. They didn’t just dislike it, they hated it. Still, I wondered how bad...
View ArticleBad Movies We Love: ‘Youngblood Hawke’
The sexual revolution of the late 1960s put an end to one of my favorite Hollywood genres — the lurid potboilers adapted from the naughty novels of hugely popular (and now forgotten) writers such as...
View Article‘Marlene’: a star’s petulance fuels classic documentary
Faced with the seemingly insurmountable challenge of a documentary subject who refused to appear on camera, Maximilian Schell managed to turn that crisis situation around in his 1984 film “Marlene.”...
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