Letters at 3am

Holden died a good death: just whiskey and a fall, no melodrama or fakery

"...I've long admired how William Holden died. His death competes for my preference with..."

Nov. 7, 2008 Column by Michael Ventura

Small Time Crooks

"...longer rob banks. Enter debonair Hugh Grant in the William Holden role. This latter half is filled with mostly..."

May 19, 2000 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Wild Bunch

"...Directed by: Sam Peckinpah. Starring: William Holden, Ernest Borgnine, Robert Ryan, Edmond O'Brien, Warren Oates,..."

March 31, 1995 Movie Review by Louis Black

That Old Revival Spirit

Testifying About Movies

"...Kelly, Patty McCormack, Henry Jones, Eileen Heckart, Evelyn Warden, William Hopper...."

June 13, 1997 Screens Feature

The Wild Bunch

"...killing of innocent bystanders; using women as shields; Pike's [William Holden] killing one of his wounded men -- at..."

Oct. 22, 1999 Screens Feature by Charles Ramirez Berg

Scanlines

"...D: Rudolph Maté (1950) with Barry Fitzgerald, William Holden, Nancy Olsen, Lyle Bettger, Jan Sterling..."

Jan. 29, 1999 Screens Feature

Miracle Man

When an actor's bio claims 14,000 performances to his credit, you rather expect the fellow to have some good stories. And Eddie Bracken doesn't disappoint. In anticipation of his appearance at a screening of Preston Sturges' The Miracle of Morgan's Creek, Bracken talks about Sturges, Betty Hutton, Hollywood, and hitchhiking.

"...celluloid starring alongside Betty Hutton, Veronica Lake, Dorothy Lamour, William Holden, Bob Hope, and Rudy Vallee, and, perhaps most..."

Feb. 18, 2000 Screens Feature by Robert Faires

Licorice Pizza

PTA's San Fernando Valley memories are blurrily sentimental

"...of Angels, with Sean Penn as a scarcely disguised William Holden, Benny Safdie as future mayor Joel Wachs, and..."

Dec. 24, 2021 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Page Two: Wild and Delirious

A columnist's lament, by way of some favorite cultural touchstones

"...surviving members of the gang are with prostitutes. Pike (William Holden) is the head of the gang. As played..."

Sept. 7, 2007 Column by Louis Black

In the Mood for a MomRomCom?

The Alamo Drafthouse is serving up It Happened One Night and Sabrina for Mother's Day

"...by Hepburn) before she steals Linus' playboy brother David (William Holden) away from his fiancée and destroys a $50-million..."

May 11, 2007 Screens Feature by Josh Rosenblatt

Rocky Balboa

This final chapter in the Rocky saga is terrific – maybe not great, like that first kiss of fist in ’76, but good, solid, exhilarating entertainment of the stand-up-and-cheer variety.

"...but the genre – and it is a genre, beholden to its own sweaty language and too-often sappy storylines..."

Dec. 22, 2006 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Page Two

'Sin City' may offer almost no suggestion of a moral substructure. But it insists there is morality, no matter how fragmented.

"...it's morning. They come out into the sun; Pike (William Holden) says, "Let's go!"..."

April 15, 2005 Column by Louis Black

Sabrina

"...Greg Kinnear’s reprise of the part originally played by William Holden has its own smug charm. Pollack has made..."

May 7, 2002 Movie Review by Alison Macor

New in Print

Dallas author Sam Staggs writes with zeal and authority in his exposé of Billy Wilder's classic camp 'Sunset Boulevard.'

"...His lengthy summaries on the careers of Gloria Swanson, William Holden, and Billy Wilder place the film within the..."

May 3, 2002 Screens Feature by Stephen MacMillan Moser

Stalag 17

"...Directed by: Billy Wilder. Starring: William Holden, Don Taylor, Otto Preminger, Robert Strauss, Harvey Lembeck..."

June 27, 2001 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

When Brendan Met Trudy

"...cinematic homages. In short order, Brendan is seen as William Holden in Sunset Blvd., Gene Wilder in The Producers,..."

May 11, 2001 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Sunset Boulevard

Wilder’s cynical edge is finely honed in this darkly amusing satire of the Dream Factory.

"...Directed by: Billy Wilder. Starring: Gloria Swanson, William Holden, Erich Von Stroheim, Nancy Olson, Fred Clark, Jack..."

July 5, 2000 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Outlaw Josey Wales

"...his past.S.O.B. D: Blake Edwards (1981); with Julie Andrews, William Holden, Marisa Berenson, Larry Hagman, Robert Loggia, Stuart Margolin,..."

May 19, 2000 Screens Review by Louis Black

Comrades, Almost a Love Story

"...having to do with Aunt Rosie's long-ago love for William Holden at first seems little more than emotional window-dressing,..."

Aug. 22, 1997 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Paramount Announces Summer Classic Film Series Lineup

See the whole schedule and get some tickets to escape the heat

"...and Alex North’s weary, sweat-drenched score elevating the Tennessee Williams play to new heights. Taxi Driver and A Streetcar..."

May 16, 2017 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Conversations With Wilder

"...Hepburn's angelic young face among the tree branches, or William Holden's dazzling, golden boy smile. "What an evening it..."

March 10, 2000 Books Review by Raoul Hernandez

Scanlines

Clueless

"...with William Holden, Ernest Borgnine, Robert Ryan, Edmond O'Brian, Warren Oates,..."

Aug. 7, 1998 Screens Feature

Lubitsch's Last Hurrah

New AFS Essential Cinema series covers the 'Touch' from pre-war to 'Cluny Brown'

"..."William Wyler and I were pallbearers [at Lubitsch's funeral], and..."

Oct. 5, 2012 Screens Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Beautiful Loser

Keith Ferguson: No Apologies, No Regrets

"...His voice is a dead ringer for that of William Holden narrating Sunset Boulevard. Some wonder whether Ferguson's fall..."

May 9, 1997 Music Feature by Josh Alan Friedman

A Tall Drink of Water

Stars we love at the Paramount Summer Classic Film series

"...and sparkle of glamour personified – Audrey Hepburn and William Holden – and I was mesmerized by the furrowed..."

May 16, 2014 Screens Feature by Jessi Cape

Captains on Deck at Wizard World

Shatner and Bakula boldly go to Austin Comic Con

"...former captains of the USS Enterprise, Scott Bakula and William Shatner, will be exploring strange new worlds. Well, the..."

Oct. 9, 2013 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Let Me Paint You a Picture

Movies were made to be shared

"...here. Like Tootsie cast against type. Not golden playboy William Holden, of course. And the triangle, the high society..."

May 20, 2011 Screens Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Criminal Conversation

How Christopher McQuarrie, the writer of The Usual Suspects and the director of the upcoming The Way of the Gun, learned to say no.

"...end of The Wild Bunch, and you almost expect William Holden to walk out and say ......"

Sept. 8, 2000 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Network

This is a prescient, sharply drawn, and award-winning comedy written by Paddy Chayevsky about the depths to which one unscrupulous television station will sink. It makes Howard Beale "mad as hell" and he memorably raises his window to announce that he's "not going to take it anymore."

"...Directed by: Sidney Lumet. Starring: William Holden, Faye Dunaway, Peter Finch, Robert Duvall, Ned Beatty..."

July 26, 2000 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Born Yesterday

"...Directed by: George Cukor. Starring: Judy Holliday, William Holden and Broderick Crawford. Judy Holliday steals the show..."

May 11, 2000 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

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