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Reclaiming Texas History, One Home Movie at a Time
Screens Story February 27, 2009
by Josh Rosenblatt
Description: The missionary zeal of the Texas Archive of the Moving Image
"...The scene is from Giant, George Stevens' 1956 epic about wealthy Texas ranchmen fighting off a new breed of wealthy Texas oilmen, Mexicans vying to secure their rightful place in America, the Old World vs. the New, the dignity and tradition of creased shirts and pomaded hair vs..."
DVD Watch
Screens Review October 26, 2007
by Raoul Hernandez
Description: Moving pictures rarely lives up to that phrase the way this one does
"...That two-time Oscar winner Haskell Wexler shot additional footage adds further luster, the brand-name cameraman a touching bonus on a Criterion Collection no-brainer. Museum of Modern Art portraits Richard Gere and Sam Shepard stalk adorably hardscrabble Brooke Adams, 1917, in the Texas Panhandle; George Stevens' Lone Star landmark Giant, a proud touchstone in Days of Heaven's biblical house on the prairie..."
In Print
Screens Story March 31, 2006
by Spencer Parsons
Description: 'Conversations With the Great Moviemakers of Hollywood's Golden Age at the American Film Institute'
"...edited by George Stevens Jr...."
After a Fashion
Columns January 20, 2006
by Stephen MacMillan Moser
Description: Stephen remembers the bawdy Shelley Winters and goes to an all-girl affair!
"...GOODBYE, SHELLEY Not many could utter the line "Manny, if I get stuck, push!" with the conviction that Shelley Winters did, and the character of Belle Rosen in The Poseidon Adventure is one of many that rendered Shelley immortal. Skittering across the Forties in studio-issue starlet roles, she met the brilliant George Stevens in 1951, who turned Shelley into an actress and turned her career around by casting her opposite Montgomery Clift in A Place in the Sun (Elizabeth Taylor plays her first adult role in the film as well)..."
DVD Watch
Screens Review June 24, 2005
by Raoul Hernandez
Description: Rarely did he singe the big screen with his craft, yet his dimpled impassivity was ready-made for audience personification
"...The "Trailers for Lost Films" segment of the Archives box featured footage from Cooper's missing Beau Sabreur, which capitalized on the success of Beau Geste, starring Ronald Colman in 1926. William Wellman's scene-for-scene remake of Beau Geste 13 years later teamed Cooper with Ray Milland and the always lively Robert Preston in another Foreign Legion adventure, but it pales next to George Stevens' rousing Gunga Din from the same year..."
Cattle Is Forever
Screens Story June 3, 2005
by Anne S. Lewis
Description: The Austin Film Society presents 'Return to Giant'
"...It's June, 1955, in scorched, draught-stricken Marfa, pre-Donald Judd, pre-Chinati Foundation, 50 years before Liz Lambert would open Hotel Thunderbird, the sequel to her Hotel San José. Marfa was just a somnolent, not-happening West Texas town when Hollywood director George Stevens – with heartthrobs Rock Hudson, Liz Taylor, James Dean (who would die in a car accident during postproduction), and Dennis Hopper in tow – flew in to film the now legendary Giant, loosely based upon the novel by Edna Ferber..."
The Benda Mask
Screens Story October 22, 2004
by Raoul Hernandez
Description: Untold secrets of Jean Arthur
"...Arthur's long, auburn hair from George Stevens' marvelous The Talk of the Town (1942) isn't face-on, so that won't do. Her shoulder-length, blond curls in Only Angels Have Wings (1939), another Howard Hawks raid, are tempting, but not quite..."
Greener Pastures
Features Story May 10, 2002
by Raoul Hernandez
"...His tenacity made her a star and revived Capra's career after the slump that followed It Happened One Night. Arthur's work with the writer/directors of legend (Preston Sturges, Billy Wilder, George Stevens) in hallmark comedies like Easy Living, Talk of the Town, and The More the Merrier ceased in 1953 when a blood feud with Columbia boss Harry Cohn exiled her into reclusion...."
Texas Film Hall of Fame Awards
Screens Story March 15, 2002
"...6 Emcee Ann Richards introduced her Mad Dog compatriot Dennis Hopper: "After a lot of hard living, he's become what we Texans like to call 'a good man to ride down the river with.'" Hopper spoke on behalf of Giant, the classic George Stevens film in which Hopper co-starred at the age of 19 with James Dean, Rock Hudson, and Elizabeth Taylor...."
Texas Film Hall of Fame Awards
Screens Story March 15, 2002
Description: The stars at night were big and bright at the Second Annual Texas Film Hall of Fame Awards.
Encore!
Screens Story March 8, 2002
by Margaret Moser
Description: The second annual Texas Film Hall of Fame Awards honors Texas' finest contributors to cinema.
"...In addition to those six awards, the decision to induct a film was made, and the 1956 epic Giant, directed by George Stevens, was chosen. Evan Smith remembers, "Last year we had the idea to induct a film..."
Thirty Years on Location
Screens Story June 15, 2001
by Marc Savlov
Description: An overview of the Texas Film Commission, which has been wedding film production and the state economy for 30 years.
"...The WWI epic Wings, recipient of the first Academy Award for Best Picture way back in 1927, was shot at Fort Sam Houston and around Bexar County. George Stevens' Giant transformed the rural township of Marfa from a dot on the map to a somewhat more iconic dot on the map in 1956, while Martin Ritt's Hud effected a similar transformation on the Panhandle backwater of Claude some seven years later...."
The Gospel According to Hollywood
Columns April 13, 2001
by Michael Ventura
Description: Easter is a time for resurrectiing Hollywood's biblical epics.
"...George Stevens had directed Fred & Ginger in Swing Time, Cary Grant in Gunga Din, Tracy and Hepburn in Woman of the Year, Monty Clift and Liz Taylor in A Place in the Sun, Alan Ladd in Shane, and James Dean in Giant, before his 1965 The Greatest Story Ever Told -- in which he weirdly forgets that movies should move. Every scene is staticly staged and portentously colored, with Handel's "Hallelujahs" blaring forth at the slightest provocation..."
Something Weird
Screens Story February 16, 2001
by Jerry Renshaw
Description: How Tim League discovered 110 drive-in films in an East Prairie warehouse and other stories of disappearing celluloid.
"...Nitrate was replaced by safety stock in the 1950s, but safety stock came with its own problems. Vinegarization, shrinkage, and brittleness tend to afflict later films; producer George Stevens Jr..."
Cars and Speed and Flight
Screens Story March 10, 2000
by Marc Savlov
Description: Outside of film circles, the name Monte Hellman is more likely to draw blank stares than the effusive praise it deserves : but that's hardly Hellman's fault. Just prior to his appearance at SXSWFilm for a retrospective of his work, Monte Hellman talk about a career in film.
"...MH: I think my formative years as a director really were the Fifties. Maybe somewhat into the Sixties, but I think I was very influenced by the films that I saw in [the Fifties] such as A Place in the Sun and by directors such as George Stevens, John Huston, Carol Reed, and by some of the New Wave and some of the Italian directors of the early Sixties...."
Soldier
Film Review October 30, 1998
by Marc Savlov
Description: “Shane! Come back, Shane!” Granted, Brandon de Wilde is nowhere in sight, but that doesn't make the obvious comparisons any less obvious. Anderson and screenwriter David Webb Peoples have mercilessly... 
by Marc Savlov
"...“Shane! Come back, Shane!” Granted, Brandon de Wilde is nowhere in sight, but that doesn't make the obvious comparisons any less obvious. Anderson and screenwriter David Webb Peoples have mercilessly stolen from George Stevens' classic Western, as well as pillaging a whole slew of other sources from George Miller's Mad Max trilogy to all manner of Kurosawa knock-offs..."
That Old Revival Spirit
Screens Story June 13, 1997
"...D: George Stevens; with Elizabeth Taylor, Rock Hudson, James Dean, Mercedes McCambridge. (restored print)..."
Further Reflections
Screens Story March 21, 1997
"...Dir: Jim Brennan; Prod: Kirby Warnock; DP: Randel Bird; Ed: Sandy Schwartz;
with Don Henley, Dennis Hopper, Earl Holliman, Carroll Baker, Fran Bennett, Bob
Hinkle, Rock Hudson, George Stevens, Jr., Don Graham...."
Scanlines
Screens Story March 14, 1997
"...D: George Stevens; with Elizabeth Taylor, Rock Hudson, James Dean, Carroll
Baker, Jane Withers, Chill Wills, Mercedes McCambridge, Dennis Hopper, Sal
Mineo.
VHS Home Video
Waterloo Video, 1016 W. Sixth..."
Giant
Film Review October 4, 1996
by Marjorie Baumgarten
Description: There is no better way to while away a Sunday afternoon than with this sprawling saga about the growth of Texas and the families that matured along with the state....
by Marjorie Baumgarten
"...Directed by: George Stevens. Starring: Rock Hudson, Elizabeth Taylor, James Dean, Mercedes McCambridge, Jane Withers, Dennis Hopper and Sal Mineo..."
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