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Life, Death, and Dance
Screens Story March 14, 2003
by Sarah Hepola
Description: Robert Duvall loves to tango. Robert Duvall loves Buenos Aires. And Robert Duvall loves Luciana Pedraza, the ravishing Argentinean-born woman who plays opposite him in Assassination Tango, a film in which the screen legend somehow conflates all these things.
"...Robert Duvall loves to tango. Robert Duvall loves Buenos Aires..."
Gods and Generals
Film Review February 21, 2003
by Marjorie Baumgarten
Description: Hundreds of Civil War re-enactors got the dream gig of their lifetimes in Ron Maxwell’s follow-up to 1993’s Gettysburg, but unless you’re a relative of one of these toy soldiers... 
by Marjorie Baumgarten
"...Maxwell. Starring: Jeff Daniels, Stephen Lang, Robert Duvall, Mira Sorvino, Kevin Conway, C..."
A Shot at Glory
Film Review May 10, 2002
by Nick Barbaro
Description: It might sound like a fairly standard sports movie transplanted to the Scottish Highlands -- the underdog minor leaguers from the tiny burg of Kilnockie rise through the ranks to...
by Nick Barbaro
"...Directed by: Michael Corrente. Starring: Morag Hood, Kirsty Mitchell, Cole Hauser, Brian Cox, Michael Keaton, Ally McCoist and Robert Duvall..."
The Gingerbread Man
Film Review May 15, 1998
by Marjorie Baumgarten
Description: The Gingerbread Man is Robert Altman's best film in many a season, and certainly his best genre piece since The Long Goodbye. The Gingerbread Man is also probably the most... 
by Marjorie Baumgarten
"...Directed by: Robert Altman. Starring: Kenneth Branagh, Embeth Davidtz, Robert Downey Jr., Daryl Hannah, Tom Berenger and Robert Duvall..."
Hearts of Darkness
Film Review February 21, 1992
by Kathleen Maher
Description: This documentary about the making of Apocalypse Now is named for that film's inspiration, Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness. It's fitting, for in the creation of their film about the...
by Kathleen Maher
"...He can't get off and he sure can't look it in the face. Filmmakers Bahr and Hickenlooper have gone back and interviewed the Coppolas, Martin Sheen, Robert Duvall, Dennis Hopper and others who were there to reconstruct the events that led to the brink of disaster and to the creation of a masterpiece..."
Mister Johnson
Film Review May 17, 1991
by Marjorie Baumgarten
Description: Director Beresford has a way with actors. Many of them win Oscars under his guidance (Jessica Tandy in Driving Miss Daisy, Robert Duvall in Tender Mercies). He also has a...
by Marjorie Baumgarten
"...Director Beresford has a way with actors. Many of them win Oscars under his guidance (Jessica Tandy in Driving Miss Daisy, Robert Duvall in Tender Mercies)..."
Friggin' Genius
Screens Blog February 4, 2010
by Kimberley Jones
Description: SXSW Film announces feature film lineup
"...while still alive. Cast: Robert Duvall, Bill Murray..."
Crazy Heart
Film Review January 8, 2010
Description: Jeff Bridges scores in this performance as a fading country & western star who has cashed in most of his chips.
by Marc Savlov
"...Directed by: Scott Cooper. Starring: Jeff Bridges, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Robert Duvall, Jack Nation, Ryan Bingham and Colin Farrell..."
Sherlock Holmes
Film Review December 25, 2009
Description: This movie reinvents the chilly, brainiac sleuth as a tortured genius and occasional backroom brawler, and Robert Downey Jr. almost makes the character work.
by Marc Savlov
"...Watson – has been a cinematic staple. The character has been assayed by a veritable rogues’ gallery of actors including the legendary (and stodgy) Basil Rathbone, Nicol Williamson (in 1976's The Seven-Per-Cent Solution, which notably featured a young Robert Duvall as Dr..."
Off the Record
Music Column December 18, 2009
by Austin Powell
Description: Stephen Bruton's final cut, a parting gift from At All Cost, and other holiday stocking stuffers
"...In Crazy Heart, Jeff Bridges delivers a sobering portrait of "Wrangler of Love" Bad Blake, an outlaw composite equal parts Kris Kristofferson and Waylon Jennings, whose battle with the bottle rings truer than any music biopic in recent memory. The most chilling moment actually comes at the very end of the credits as the a cappella version by Robert Duvall of Billy Joe Shaver's "Live Forever" from the film accompanies a freeze frame: "Dedicated to the memory of Stephen Bruton." The late South Austin staple who succumbed to cancer in May co-produced the soundtrack with T Bone Burnett (see "Off the Record," Sept..."
Haven't Seen Film, But Knows Reviewer Is Wrong
Postmarks November 28, 2009
"...So why make such an idiotic comparison? Evidently, understanding themes of apocalypse and humanity's desperate efforts to deal with such a terrible force are beyond the reviewer's skill. I haven't even seen The Road yet, but I will not let the sophomoric ramblings of the reviewer deter me from checking out the work of veteran artists such as Viggo Mortensen, McCarthy, and Robert Duvall...."
The Road
Film Review November 27, 2009
Description: Cormac McCarthy's bleak, end-of-days novel survives the transition to the screen with remarkable veracity.
by Marc Savlov
"...Directed by: John Hillcoat. Starring: Viggo Mortensen, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Charlize Theron, Robert Duvall, Guy Pearce and Molly Parker..."
Bucking Categorization
Screens Story November 6, 2009
by Marc Savlov
Description: Character actor Sam Rockwell slips into a new guise in the goofy comedy Gentlemen Broncos
"...I grew up watching movies like The Deer Hunter and then Caddyshack, or Taxi Driver and then Stripes, you know? So what I liked was all over the place. I loved Richard Pryor, and I loved Robert Duvall, Sophie's Choice, and Private Benjamin..."
Day Trips
Columns August 21, 2009
by Gerald E. McLeod
Description: Alamo Village, where John Wayne shot The Alamo, has lost the 93-year-old matriarch who kept the movie set and Western-themed park open for nearly 50 years
"...The area got its first taste of stardom in 1951, when Charlton Heston made a movie in the former cavalry fort in Brackettville. As mayor of the county seat of Kenny County, Happy lobbied hard to bring Jimmy Stewart, Ernest Borgnine, Dean Martin, Raquel Welch, Robert Duvall, and a long list of A-list projects to South Texas...."
Final Attraction
Music Story June 5, 2009
by Austin Powell
"..."We're creating an alternate world of country music," T Bone Burnett told the Chronicle last September in regard to his work with the late Stephen Bruton for the Robert Duvall-produced film Crazy Heart, which is slated for national release later this year. "Country music as you would like it to be."..."
That Thing They Do
Screens Story May 22, 2009
by Belinda Acosta
"...I watched it because it was "that movie" my mother dragged us to many years earlier. The children – Scout, Jem, and Dill – pulled me in, as did the mystery of Boo Radley (played by Robert Duvall in his film debut), but I was mesmerized by the enigmatic Atticus Finch..."
Texas Film Hall of Fame Slate Finalized
Screens Blog February 1, 2009
by Kimberley Jones
Description: Billy Bob Thornton, John Cusack, and Dennis Quaid join the lineup for the ninth annual Texas Film Hall of Fame Awards
"...He starred in FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS, filmed at Austin Studios, and THE ALAMO, filmed near Austin at Reimers Ranch, in which he played Davy Crockett, the famous frontiersman who became a hero of Texas after dying in that battle. Thornton has worked alongside Texas Film Hall of Fame inductees Bill Paxton in A SIMPLE PLAN and ONE FALSE MOVE; Richard Linklater in BAD NEWS BEARS; Robert Duvall in THE APOSTLE and A FAMILY THING; and Ethan Hawke in FLOUNDERING..."
Four Christmases
Film Review November 28, 2008
by Steve Davis
Description: From the director of the hit documentary The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters comes this holiday-themed romantic comedy that stars Reese Witherspoon and Vince Vaughn. Opens Wednesday.
by Steve Davis
"...Directed by: Seth Gordon. Starring: Vince Vaughn, Reese Witherspoon, Jon Favreau, Robert Duvall, Sissy Spacek, Mary Steenburgen, Jon Voight, Kristin Chenoweth, Dwight Yoakam, Tim McGraw and Katy Mixon..."
After a Fashion
Columns February 15, 2008
by Stephen MacMillan Moser
Description: Stephen preps for the Texas Film Hall of Fame with a look back at previous years' events
"...He's also a great host; I usually hang with him and his lovely wife, Kimberly, at some point during the Dennis Quaid Charity Weekend, as well (last year I published a photo of him mugging for the camera while wearing my D&G sunglasses). Robert Duvall is also an incredibly affable guy – a good talker and listener, who seems to be as interested in knowing about the person he's speaking to as they are to know about him..."
TV Eye
Screens Column January 11, 2008
by Belinda Acosta
Description: It's ba-ack: The season debut of The Wire marks the return of appointment television
"...Steve Zahn and Karl Urban star as young Gus McCrae and Woodrow F. Call, the roles played by Robert Duvall and Tommy Lee Jones in Lonesome Dove...."
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