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The Day the Earth Stood Still
Film Review December 12, 2008
by Marc Savlov
Description: This dull, unnecessary remake of the 1951 science-fiction classic features Keanu Reeves and Jennifer Connelly in a wooden cautionary tale. 
by Marc Savlov
"...North's 1951 script but garnishes the film's overriding and still-resonant message with wooden warnings from the equally wooden Reeves and then ladles on the CGI destruction to little effect. Wise's film had a stately elegance, with Michael Rennie's interplanetary message-bearer Klaatu eliciting genuine pathos while Patricia Neal and Hugh Marlowe acted exceedingly human throughout..."
Where There's Smoke, There's a 'Vérité-Enhanced' Legacy
Screens Story February 10, 2006
by Anne S. Lewis
Description: The Texas Documentary Tour: Ross McElwee's 'Bright Leaves'
"...While McElwee had known that he wanted to make a film about tobacco, he also knew that he didn't "want to make the standard film that's been made before where the tobacco industry and the farmers are excoriated for what they do – or a health film about how bad smoking is for us – I think most of us know that already." When he learned from a film-buff cousin that a 1950 film called Bright Leaf, starring Gary Cooper and Patricia Neal, might have been about the North Carolina tobacco rivalry between his great-grandfather and Duke, McElwee packed his camera and took off. He had the starting point – but only just that – he needed to be off and running back home to Carolina for another seat-of-the-pants cinematic exploration...."
Letters at 3AM
Columns October 17, 2003
by Michael Ventura
Description: Forgive Elia Kazan his sins, but never forget his lousy deeds.
"...But that's the point, isn't it? Kazan continued to make films and to direct plays about integrity, but he betrayed all claim to integrity in his life. When you see his films you see people risking all for their integrity -- Brando in Waterfront and Zapata, Patricia Neal in A Face in the Crowd, Fredric March in Man on a Tightrope..."
Hud
Film Review June 24, 2002
by Marjorie Baumgarten
Description: Multi-award-winning classic about a family of Texas men (and the housekeeper) is an eternal favorite and a fantastic ensemble piece. Years ago in these pages, Matthew McConaughey described Hud as...
by Marjorie Baumgarten
"...Directed by: Martin Ritt. Starring: Paul Newman, Patricia Neal, Melvyn Douglas and Brandon de Wilde..."
Love and a VCR
Screens Story February 8, 2002
by Clay Smith
"...Paul Newman, as a mean, vain, wild-eyed lout who stands to inherit his father's ranch in windblown North Texas, can have any woman in the county. Patricia Neal, who plays Alma, the maid on the ranch who's a little bit bohemian, a little bit hard-scrabble, and all hard glamour, doesn't give him what he wants..."
TV Eye
Screens Column December 3, 1999
by Belinda Acosta
Description: Reflections on the memorable television specials of Christmas past
"...The Homecoming follows the mounting excitement of John-Boy Walton (Richard Thomas) and his siblings, who await the return of their father and the arrival of Santa Claus on a Depression-era Christmas Eve. Golden Globes went to Patricia Neal for her portrayal of Olivia Walton and to the movie for Best Made-for-TV Movie in 1972...."
Cookie's Fortune
Film Review April 16, 1999
by Steve Davis
Description: This honeysuckle-flavored comedy scripted by Anne Rapp is as sweet and refreshing as anything Altman's ever done.
by Steve Davis
"...Starring: Glenn Close, Charles S. Dutton, Patricia Neal, Liv Tyler, Julianne Moore, Ned Beatty, Chris O'Donnell, Donald Moffat, Courtney B..."
Roll 'Em
Screens Story February 25, 1999
by Marjorie Baumgarten
"...D: Robert Altman; with Glenn Close, Julianne Moore, Liv Tyler, Chris O'Donnell, Charles S. Dutton, Patricia Neal, Ned Beatty, Courtney B..."
The King and I
Screens Column August 15, 1997
by Margaret Moser
"...Hate Elvis? Don't miss Paul Newman and Patricia Neal in Hud (8/18, 9pm, TCM). This adaptation of Larry McMurtry's Horseman, Pass By is so Texas it seethes like a summer day with exquisitely created characters..."
That Old Revival Spirit
Screens Story June 13, 1997
"...D: Blake Edwards; with Audrey Hepburn, George Peppard, Patricia Neal, Buddy Ebsen, Martin Balsam, Mickey Rooney...."
Scanlines
Screens Story December 1, 1995
"...D: Robert Wise; with Michael Rennie, Patricia Neal, Hugh Marlowe, Sam Jaffe...."
Breakfast at Tiffany's Champagne Breakfast
Film Review
Description: Just what it sounds like: a classic movie about an all-night party girl and champagne brunch. For the menu and reservations see www.drafthouse.com....
"...Directed by: Blake Edwards. Starring: Audrey Hepburn, George Peppard, Patricia Neal, Buddy Ebsen and Martin Balsam..."
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