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Mountains of the Moon
Film Review June 29, 2000
by Marjorie Baumgarten
Description: This historical adventure film details the 19th-century expeditions to Africa by English explorers Richard Burton and John Hanning. The contrasts are vivid between the natural wonders of the African continent...
by Marjorie Baumgarten
"...Grant, Iain Glen and Patrick Bergin. This historical adventure film details the 19th-century expeditions to Africa by English explorers Richard Burton and John Hanning..."
Cleopatra
Film Review July 8, 1999
by Marjorie Baumgarten
Description: Taylor, Burton, and Harrison are sublime in this sweeping epic of love and nations, a film that also earned Oscars for its cinematography, art direction, special effects, and costumes....
by Marjorie Baumgarten
"...Mankiewicz. Starring: Richard Burton, Elizabeth Taylor, Hume Cronyn, Martin Landau, Roddy McDowell and Rex Harrison..."
12 Rounds
Film Review April 3, 2009
by Josh Rosenblatt
Description: WWE superstar wrestler John Cena teams with once-exciting action director Renny Harlin for this New Orleans-set action film. 
by Josh Rosenblatt
"...You can try all you want, but I don’t think you’ll make it. You can laugh at his bulging trapezius muscles, which look like they were designed in a lab by scientists from the future; you can mock his misguided elementary school attempts at acting, which make Jean-Claude Van Damme look like Richard Burton; and you can scorn his World Wrestling Entertainment pedigree..."
Clink Clink, Swampy!
The Gay Place Blog December 5, 2008
by Andy Campbell
Description: Hey. Homo. This one's for you.
"...For those of you who haven't seen this gem, it's basically a fictional version of Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton's real-life marriage. Hilarious and horrifying, this film will wear your shit out! It's a slogfest..."
DVD Watch
Screens Review November 21, 2008
by John Davidson
Description: "I've got the last good lay in an aging whore!" said Martin Ritts of his famously troubled star, Richard Burton
"...Directed by Martin Ritt and shot in deep noir by director of photography Oswald Morris, The Spy went into production in 1964, the year in which Sean Connery (as Bond, in Goldfinger) made the Aston Martin DB5 the ultimate object of desire for men the world over, whilst also discovering a naked gold woman sprawled across his bedsheets. Compared with the glamour of Bond then, The Spy was thriller by way of kitchen-sink drama – pointedly so, in fact, as the film reunited Morris with Richard Burton and Claire Bloom, all of whom worked previously on the film version of John Osborne's classic class-warfare drama, Look Back in Anger (1958)...."
AFS Essential's Blokes 'n' Birds: British Realist Cinema
Screens Story August 31, 2007
by Josh Rosenblatt
Description: Sept. 4-Oct. 9
"...The film version of Look Back in Anger (1958), starring Richard Burton as the acid-tongued Jimmy Porter and helmed by the play's original director, Tony Richardson, opens the next edition of the Austin Film Society's Essential Cinema series, Blokes 'n' Birds: British Realist Cinema (1958-1965), which will feature five other movies from that embittered era. Not only is Anger the classic example of angry-young-man cinema, which would become all the rage in Britain over the next seven years (launching the careers of many of the leading lights of British theatre and cinema in the process, including Michael Caine, Peter Finch, Albert Finney, and Richard Harris); it's also a true work of sociological art, indebted to the Italian neorealist school and to 1930s French poetic realism but adding a touch of British irony and proletarian grit..."
The Playing of the Shrew
Arts Story April 6, 2007
by Robert Faires
Description: Ballerina Allysin Paino reveals more about taming Kate for Ballet Austin's 'Shrew'
"...With the CliffsNotes next to me to make sure I understood everything that was going on. I saw the Elizabeth Taylor-Richard Burton movie..."
The Guardian
Film Review October 6, 2006
by Josh Rosenblatt
Description: Kevin Costner and Ashton Kutcher co-star in this action drama about the Coast Guard Rescue Swimmers, which is a surprisingly engaging character-driven picture.
by Josh Rosenblatt
"...Costner, for one, has rarely been this good in recent years. He may not be Richard Burton, but he does an admirable job of shedding light on the conflicted soul of a hero who’s sacrificed his own life to save others’, and he treads ably enough through the movie minefield of ruined marriages and drunken nights to light on something new and resonant..."
Surviving the Blacklist: Joseph Losey in Europe
Screens Story September 1, 2006
by Josh Rosenblatt
Description: Sept. 5-Oct. 10
"...3 screening of Boom!, Tennessee Williams' adaptation of his own stage play The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore. Released to resounding critical and commercial antipathy in 1968, Boom!, starring Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton at their drunkest, is now considered a camp classic and a must-see for those who like their movies like they like their train wrecks...."
DVD Watch
Screens Review May 12, 2006
by Steve Uhler
Description: The quintessential musical for sentimental cynics
"...Welles rolls his eyes; two hours later, he was dead. More than 40 "interesting people" make up the guest interviews on this patchwork video quilt of Griffin's warm and fuzzy talk show from the Sixties to Eighties, including Martin Luther King, Richard Burton, John Wayne, and Monti Rock III..."
Renegade
Music Story January 20, 2006
by Raoul Hernandez
Description: Still mourning the death of Thin Lizzy's Phil Lynott 20 years later
"...In this black light, Jailbreak's Orwellian concept plays out as distant cousin to the otherworldly star wars of Bootsy Collins and George Clinton. Lynott's meaty cameo as Parson Nathaniel in the recently reissued late-Seventies audio production of War of the Worlds out-hams narrator Richard Burton...."
Women, Memories, and Food
Food Story May 27, 2005
"...Dishing chronicles her food memories: meals enjoyed with the glitterati, family, and friends, complete with recipes. While I found some of the more star-studded entries pretty boring (too many pages of Elvis, Liz Taylor, and Richard Burton, yawn), Smith's stories about herself and her friends are very engaging..."
Shakespeare-ouette
Arts Story October 10, 2003
by Robert Faires
Description: Ballet Austin's Stephen Mills has a deft touch at getting the Bard to the barre.
"...We've seen this pair mix it up before, if not on a stage, then on film as embodied by Liz Taylor and Richard Burton or Kathryn Grayson and Howard Keel. These are two of Shakespeare's most memorable lovers -- memorable precisely because their romance gets its start in combat, overt hostility expressed in bruising deed and slashing word..."
Hopelessly Devoted to 'Grease'
Screens Story July 25, 2003
by Sarah Hepola
Description: "I was born to Hand Jive, baby, and that's not even a euphemism," says Sarah Hepola, explaining the continuing appeal of camp classic, Grease. Project Transitions and the Austin Gay and Lesbian Film Festival will host a sing-along performance of Grease this weekend at the Paramount.
"...Fictitious though they were, John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John were like our own Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton, our J.Lo and Ben. "Olivia Newton-John was the embodiment of perfect ideal beauty," wrote Jodi Egerton..."
Nineteen Eighty-four
Film Review January 13, 2003
by Marjorie Baumgarten
Description: George Orwell's grim Big Brother universe was given a punkish production design for this British film version released in 1984....
by Marjorie Baumgarten
"...Directed by: Michael Radford. Starring: John Hurt, Richard Burton, Suzanna Hamilton and Cyril Cusack..."
Bigger Than Life
Screens Story May 31, 2002
by Marc Savlov
Description: Paramount Theatre plays host to two summer film series
"...Twentieth Century Fox's 1953 Richard Burton/Victor Mature religious epic The Robe is best remembered (when it's remembered at all) as the first movie shot in CinemaScope, and both Fox and Warner Bros. jumped on the CinemaScope bandwagon in the wake of that film's initial success..."
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..."
Reissues
Music Story August 26, 1999
"...The well-designed booklet seems to take great pains to avoid discussing the origin of these recordings from Caedmon or the other sources, much less offer a list of the actors participating. That's a shame, because not only do Finney and Bloom star within, so too do Edith Evans, Alec Guinness, Vanessa Redgrave, Ian Holm, Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor, John Gielgud, Orson Welles, Judith Anderson, and many others whose dedication to the art of theatre gave contemporary shape to 400-year-old words...."
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
Columns August 19, 1999
by Mr. Smarty Pants
"...Richard Burton used to reach over to Elizabeth Taylor during off-camera moments, take her breasts in his hands, and squeeze them like antique car horns, making "Honk! Honk!" noises...."
Loving Liz and Lana
Screens Column January 21, 1999
by Margaret Moser
"...Not gripping. And The Sandpiper (1/23; 9:30pm) is pure corn as then-husband Richard Burton plays an Episcopal priest hot for bohemian artist Liz (yeah, right)..."
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