Steve McQueen’s career started too late and ended too soon.
Successful or not, there’s something about the rebbot that I gravitate toward.
So what did frighten me as a kid?
All five movies give their young characters complete ownership of their respective worlds.
Robert Wise’s oeuvre is a study in extreme contrasts.
Robert Montgomery’s face was boyishly cute, even as he began to show his age in the early 40s, and his characters strategically used their cuteness.
With his beefy head and saturnine manner, Mason was most himself on screen when he was spewing disgust.
Grant, as his best characterizations showed, was always his own man.
Madeline Kahn was as close as you come to a universally loved performer.
Actor and avid sailor Sterling Hayden once said that no film has ever really captured the true essence of sea travel.
I am a research scientist, a walk of life whose cinematic counterparts are relegated to a few stale options.
While Lord knows the last thing the Oscar telecast needs is to be longer, one category I would love to see added to the proceedings is best ensemble.
Even when she was just phoning it in for her later movies, Ruth Gordon was phoning it in from Mars, or some kingdom of her own.
Animals have a spontaneity, a naturalism, a genuine screen presence.
Politically, sexually, and spiritually, Stamp is an icon of the most idealistic side of the ’60s.
Has any other actress made such an impact on screen by purveying nearly nothing but abrasive bad temper?
Van Heflin never became a big star because he was too honest an actor.
In 13 films, Woody Allen celebrated and sometimes assailed Mia Farrow, and they both emerged victors, artistically, at least.
Almost all of Bancroft’s best work can be found in the handful of films she made in the ’60s.
More than a fine and under-used actor, Ayres was an exceptional person, a model pacifist in a world that still cannot conceive of such an option.