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Yours, Mine & Ours
Film Review November 25, 2005
by Marjorie Baumgarten
Description: This supersized family comedy makes The Brady Bunch look like an example of prudent family planning and sophisticated humor.  
by Marjorie Baumgarten
"...Starring: Dennis Quaid, Rene Russo, Linda Hunt, Sean Faris, Katija Pevec, Danielle Panabaker, Rip Torn and Jerry O'Connell. If you can’t wait one more month to see Cheaper by the Dozen 2, you can go to the theatre this week and see this new supersized family comedy, itself a remake of the 1968 Henry Fonda and Lucille Ball comedy..."
The Lady Eve
Film Review June 30, 1999
by Marjorie Baumgarten
Description: Preston Sturges' delirious humor sets up Henry Fonda's wealthy dope to be taken by Barbara Stanwyck's seductive con artistry....
by Marjorie Baumgarten
"...Directed by: Preston Sturges. Starring: Barbara Stanwyck, Henry Fonda, Charles Coburn and William Demarest..."
Event Menu
Food Column March 28, 2008
by Virginia B. Wood
"...• The Alamo Drafthouse Iron Chef Battle Celluloid series continues tonight when Alamo chefs John Bullington, Trish Eichelberger, and Elijah Horgan take on challenger chef Lawrence Kocurek of Roy's restaurant. The secret ingredient is director Preston Sturges' classic zany comedy The Lady Eve, starring Henry Fonda and Barbara Stanwyck..."
Now I'm a 'Believer'
Screens Blog March 20, 2008
by Kimberley Jones
Description: 'The Believer' gets pervy at the movies
"...While we find the magazine frequently brilliant, but also weirdly dowdy and way-too-indulgent with the word counts, this time we couldn't wait to rip through its plastic casing to get to the 2008 Film Issue. Inside are feature-length pieces (Devin McKinney's impassioned case that Henry Fonda should've played the obsessive Scottie in Hitchcock's Vertigo, Jim Shepard's dissection of the original Dutch The Vanishing that winds its way to American foreign policy) and a new feature called Creative Accounting, which breaks down the $18 million budget for an actual (but sadly anonymous) indie film, plus interviews with celebrity intelligentsia (Werner Herzog in conversation with Errol Morris looks damned promising) and the usual dips into esoterica (a Q&A with Vladimir, "one of the only known filmmakers working with View-Masters") and cheek (a photo essay of the "Top Four Nonchalant Responses to Exploding Cars").
We've only had a couple hours to greedily paw through the issue – an issue, by the way, that will continue the debate that's been playing out in the Letters to the Editor section for several issues now regarding the fluctuating, but always, er, distinct, smell of The Believer..."
30 Days of Night
Film Review October 19, 2007
by Marc Savlov
Description: This film's high-concept stroke of genius lies not with its vampire clan but with the setting: a tiny Alaskan hamlet where nightfall indeed lasts all month.
by Marc Savlov
"...Hartnett is stoically adequate here, but he's no Gary Cooper, and his wounded alpha-male relationship with Stella comes off as a less-nuanced version of Ed Harris and Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio's pseudo-couple in The Abyss. As befits the proto-Western template, the Nosferatu gang is led by the hellishly good Huston, whose Slavic-sounding Marlow growls orders to his underlings and dishes out spontaneous ultraviolence like Slobodan Milosevic meeting Henry Fonda's Frank in the devil's cut of Once Upon a Time in Hell..."
Belles on Her Toes
Screens Story October 6, 2006
by Raoul Hernandez
Description: Trying to shake Gene Tierney
"...In stark contrast to her midperiod mystery and latter heroines in distress, Tierney's early effervescence enchants with a buoyancy verging on weightlessness. Until John Ford's Tobacco Road finally reaches rental status, Technicolor trifles like Tierney's squeaky debut opposite Henry Fonda in The Return of Frank James; plus Belle Starr, Sundown, and recent rollout Thunder Birds all titter with her precious innocence..."
DVD Watch
Screens Review September 29, 2006
by Steve Uhler
Description: These vintage interviews could not take place today; the guests had no movies to plug and 90 minutes in which not to plug them
"...Mister Roberts (Warner Home Video, $19.98): John Ford may have been fired halfway through filming (replaced by Mervyn LeRoy), but that didn't stop this from being one of the funniest "service comedies" ever made. With a crew including Henry Fonda, James Cagney, and, as the quintessential schemer Ensign Pulver, an Oscar-winning Jack Lemmon...."
Searching for Once Upon a Time
Screens Story August 11, 2006
by Marjorie Baumgarten
Description: Why Monument Valley – again part of the Netflix / Alamo Drafthouse Rolling Roadshow this summer – is such a magnetic place for me
"...(Recent local examples include the advance screening of The Descent in nearby Longhorn Caverns and Mexican-style wrestling matches and costume contests prior to a preview-screening of Nacho Libre.) Set up on the flat little area of the airstrip beside Goulding's Lodge in Monument Valley, the inflatable screen was but a speck amid the massive geological formations surrounding us. The moon, as it rose over the red mesas to our right, at first looked liked lava erupting the rock, while Henry Fonda and Claudia Cardinale matched wits on the screen..."
New Year, Old Films
Screens Story December 30, 2005
by Louis Black
Description: Mid-20th-century must-sees: Part I
"...The Lady Eve (1941; on DVD: Criterion, $39.95): Preston Sturges deserves his own list, but I had to include this classic, in which con artist Barbara Stanwyck first tries to take and then falls for clueless heir Henry Fonda. He finds out and turns on her, so she turns it back on him...."
From the Source
Arts Story November 4, 2005
"...The Lady Eve (1941) D, scr: Preston Sturges; with Barbara Stanwyck, Henry Fonda...."
My Favorite Year
Arts Story November 4, 2005
by Robert Faires
Description: In an extraordinary season of four premieres, playwright Robert Schenkkan brings UT, his old school, a new screwball comedy
Talk of the College Town
Screens Story November 5, 2004
by Marjorie Baumgarten
Description: 'The New Yorker' on tour in Austin
"...The panel takes place at 4pm on Wednesday, Nov. 10, in the Texas Union Theatre on campus, and will be followed at 6pm by a screening of Preston Sturges' comedy classic The Lady Eve, starring Barbara Stanwyck and Henry Fonda, which will be followed by commentary by Lane...."
Exhibitionism
Arts Review September 3, 2004
by Robert Faires
Description: The comic skill of the actors in OnStage Theatre Company's revival of Bell, Book, and Candle makes magic
"...We can feel both her inner desire for something richer from life and the less spiritual desire she feels for Shepherd Henderson. And Brian Jepson gives us a good idea of what Gillian sees in Shep; he's smart, courteous, warm, and true – cut from the same cloth as a young Jimmy Stewart or Henry Fonda..."
Holiday Bonuses
Screens Story December 5, 2003
by Marc Savlov
"...For our money the best Western ever made, Sergio Leone's sprawling 1968 film reimagines the Old West as a minimalistic hellhole overseen by Henry Fonda's evil, conniving, black-clad villain and Charles Bronson's silent Man With a Harmonica, the antihero's antihero. Unlike all the previous versions we've seen, this newly restored two-disc set is pristine; Leone's widescreen compositions and trademark extreme close-ups of sweaty, dusty, doomed faces demand viewing on the biggest television you can muster, but even on our lowly 30-inch, the film's sacrilegious beauty punches through like a bullet to the chest..."
Back in the Saddle Again
Screens Story March 7, 2003
by Steve Uhler
Description: Long considered a lost film, Peter Fonda's The Hired Hand gets its long deserved due at SXSW.
Letters at 3am
Columns May 31, 2002
by Michael Ventura
Description: Learning about "manhood" from the movies.
"...The World War II generation looked to male images like Clark Gable, Gary Cooper, Cary Grant, Humphrey Bogart, Henry Fonda, James Cagney, Spencer Tracy, and John Wayne; and to female images like Bette Davis, Joan Crawford, Katharine Hepburn, Jean Harlow, Barbara Stanwyck ... actors, presences, of considerable substance and range, far more centered and less self-centered than the generation that followed them..."
Discus Maximus
Screens Story December 7, 2001
by Raoul Hernandez
"...Not only do these two films, both from 1941, reaffirm that digital technology has restored the "glorious" to black and white, they also leave no doubt that Criterion is the Blue Note of DVD labels. Springloaded with special features, The Lady Eve buttresses Barbara Stanwyck's command performance as the reptile in Henry Fonda's ophidian Garden of Eden with a revealing commentary track, Peter Bogdanovich's intro, a complete radio broadcast featuring Stanwyck and Ray Milland, Edith Head's costume design notes, the trailer, and dozens of production stills, candid photos, and studio memos..."
The Longest Day
Film Review May 30, 2001
by Marjorie Baumgarten
Description: Just look at the cast and try to resist the testosterone pull of this movie. The Longest Day is a widescreen World War II epic about the Allied invasion of...
by Marjorie Baumgarten
"...Directed by: Ken Annaqkin, Andrew Marton, Gerd Oswald and Bernhard Wicki. Starring: John Wayne, Rod Steiger, Robert Ryan, Henry Fonda, Robert Mitchum, Richard Burton, Richard Beymer, Jeffrey Hunter, Sal Mineo, Roddy McDowall, Sean Connery, Robert Wagner, Stuart Whitman, George Segal, Jean-Louis Barrault, Paul Anka, Fabian and Arletty..."
3000 Miles to Graceland
Film Review February 23, 2001
by Marc Savlov
Description: Like great sex, a truly great action film leaves you feeling shaken and stirred. The Wild Bunch, The Killer, Dobermann, Reservoir Dogs, La Femme Nikita, even Armageddon -- all of...
by Marc Savlov
"...There's something indelibly distressing about casting America's sometime leading man in such a show-stoppingly brutal role, but doubtless that was the intention. The role immediately calls to mind Henry Fonda's equally disturbing turn as the vile, oily Frank in Sergio Leone's Once Upon a Time in the West; rarely since then has a beloved Americana star allowed himself such a juicily foul role..."
Instant Classic
Screens Story May 19, 2000
by Margaret Moser
"...That's a shame, because the story of two young men (Fonda and Hopper) and their trek across America is the perfect road movie of the Sixties, often imitated but never equaled. Peter Fonda was the scion of one of Hollywood's most beloved stars, Henry Fonda, but Easy Rider was no Grapes of Wrath..."
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