Giant

"...Directed by: George Stevens. Starring: Rock Hudson, Elizabeth Taylor, James Dean, Mercedes..."

Oct. 4, 1996 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Soldier

"...and screenwriter David Webb Peoples have mercilessly stolen from George Stevens' classic Western, as well as pillaging a whole..."

Oct. 30, 1998 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

That Old Revival Spirit

Testifying About Movies

"...cry from the molded armor and firm jaw of George Clooney. It offers instead a chunky biscuit in a..."

June 13, 1997 Screens Feature

The Climb

"...Directed by: John Schmidt. Starring: Christian Stevens, David Stuart, Kyli Santiago, Clifton Davis, Todd Bridges, Dabney..."

Feb. 22, 2002 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

UT Professor on the Making of Texas Film Epic Giant

Don Graham's Giant: Elizabeth Taylor, Rock Hudson, James Dean, Edna Ferber, and the Making of a Legendary American Film

"...was a calculated one on the part of director George Stevens, who made a then-unheard-of decision to have an..."

April 13, 2018 Books Review by Joe O'Connell

Paramount Announces Summer Classic Film Series Lineup

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

"...(1967, 126min/color, 35mm) Paul Newman, George Kennedy, Strother Martin, and Jo Van Fleet. Directed by..."

May 16, 2017 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Happily N'Ever After

The animated Happily N'Ever After isn't just cynically humorless, it's shoddy-looking to boot.

"...mumbly Rick (Prinze Jr.), who looks something like Sufjan Stevens were he a Satanist. Enter the wicked stepmother (Weaver),..."

Jan. 12, 2007 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

In Print

'Conversations With the Great Moviemakers of Hollywood's Golden Age at the American Film Institute'

"...edited by George Stevens Jr...."

March 31, 2006 Screens Feature by Spencer Parsons

Further Reflections

SXSW Film Festival

"...Pusillo, Joe Masi, Rafael Cabrera, Carlyn Smith, Patricia Migliori, George Santana...."

March 21, 1997 Screens Feature

The More the Merrier Finds Fun in Creative Sleeping Arrangements

Room for one more at AFS Cinema

"...Released in 1943, this was director George Stevens' last film before he headed overseas for wartime..."

Aug. 23, 2019 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

Children of Giant Speak

Children of Giant tells new stories about the film classic

"...(in his last screen performance), and was directed by George Stevens, based on the novel by Edna Ferber. Co-stars..."

April 17, 2015 Screens Post by Marjorie Baumgarten

Cattle Is Forever

The Austin Film Society presents 'Return to Giant'

"...a somnolent, not-happening West Texas town when Hollywood director George Stevens – with heartthrobs Rock Hudson, Liz Taylor, James..."

June 3, 2005 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

The Benda Mask

Untold secrets of Jean Arthur

"...Arthur's long, auburn hair from George Stevens' marvelous The Talk of the Town (1942) isn't..."

Oct. 22, 2004 Screens Feature by Raoul Hernandez

The Gospel According to Hollywood

Easter is a time for resurrectiing Hollywood's biblical epics.

"...George Stevens had directed Fred & Ginger in Swing Time,..."

April 13, 2001 Column by Michael Ventura

The House of the Spirits

"...Sarita Choudhury. Bertolucci had 1900. Coppola had The Godfathers, George Stevens, Giant; Welles had his Ambersons and Visconti, The..."

April 1, 1994 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Review: Different Stages' The Tavern

Not to be melodramatic but, damn, Different Stage's revival is a satire worth sitting through

"...George M. Cohan – the turn-of-the-20th-century entertainer whose bronze statue..."

March 24, 2023 Arts Feature by Bob Abelman

Fall Movie Round-Up

Sneaking Into Autumn

"...D: Barbra Streisand; with Streisand, Jeff Bridges, Pierce Brosnan, George Segal, Mimi Rogers, Brenda Vaccaro, Lauren Bacall...."

Sept. 6, 1996 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Greener Pastures

Youth, Joy, and Jean Arthur

"..."A face at the window?" huffs Karloff, as both George Darling and Capt. Hook. "Three floors up? Nonsense."..."

May 10, 2002 Features Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Something Weird

How Tim League discovered 110 drive-in films in an East Prairie warehouse and other stories of disappearing celluloid.

"...shrinkage, and brittleness tend to afflict later films; producer George Stevens Jr. was called on to strike a negative..."

Feb. 16, 2001 Screens Feature by Jerry Renshaw

Hercules on Two Wheels

Could bicycling be bigger than baseball again?

"...won the Tour and Bill Clinton (a jogger) and George W. Bush (a runner) hosted Armstrong after his wins...."

Nov. 12, 2011 Sports Post by Mike Crissey

A Tribute to Elizabeth Taylor

Turner Classic Movies offers 24 hours of Liz

"...Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966), with Richard Burton, George Segal and Sandy Dennis; directed by Mike Nichols...."

March 23, 2011 Screens Post by Belinda Acosta

After a Fashion

Stephen remembers the bawdy Shelley Winters and goes to an all-girl affair!

"...Forties in studio-issue starlet roles, she met the brilliant George Stevens in 1951, who turned Shelley into an actress..."

Jan. 20, 2006 Column by Stephen MacMillan Moser

Thirty Years on Location

An overview of the Texas Film Commission, which has been wedding film production and the state economy for 30 years.

"...shot at Fort Sam Houston and around Bexar County. George Stevens' Giant transformed the rural township of Marfa from..."

June 15, 2001 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

In Memory of Dennis Hopper

'A walkin' contradiction, partly truth and partly fiction'

"...a Cause (D: Nicholas Ray; 1955) and Giant (D: George Stevens; 1956), where he was awed by star James..."

June 4, 2010 Screens Feature by Louis Black

Reclaiming Texas History, One Home Movie at a Time

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..."

Feb. 27, 2009 Screens Feature by Josh Rosenblatt

Days of Heaven

Moving pictures rarely lives up to that phrase the way this one does

"...adorably hardscrabble Brooke Adams, 1917, in the Texas Panhandle; George Stevens' Lone Star landmark Giant, a proud touchstone in..."

Oct. 26, 2007 Screens Review by Raoul Hernandez

The Gary Cooper Collection

Rarely did he singe the big screen with his craft, yet his dimpled impassivity was ready-made for audience personification

"...another Foreign Legion adventure, but it pales next to George Stevens' rousing Gunga Din from the same year. 1936's..."

June 24, 2005 Screens Review by Raoul Hernandez

Texas Film Hall of Fame Awards

The stars at night were big and bright at the Second Annual Texas Film Hall of Fame Awards.

March 15, 2002 Screens Feature

Encore!

The second annual Texas Film Hall of Fame Awards honors Texas' finest contributors to cinema.

"...was made, and the 1956 epic Giant, directed by George Stevens, was chosen. Evan Smith remembers, "Last year we..."

March 8, 2002 Screens Feature by Margaret Moser

Cars and Speed and Flight

Just prior to his appearance at SXSW Film for a retrospective of his work, Monte Hellman talks about a career in film.

"...Place in the Sun and by directors such as George Stevens, John Huston, Carol Reed, and by some of..."

March 10, 2000 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

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