Affliction

"...Directed by: Paul Schrader. Starring: Nick Nolte, Sissy Spacek, James Coburn, Willem Dafoe and Mary Beth Hurt. "Some days..."

Feb. 19, 1999 Movie Review by Russell Smith

Snow Dogs

"...Greene, M. Emmet Walsh, Joanna Bacalso, Nichelle Nichols, Sisqó, James Coburn and Cuba Gooding Jr.. The marketing weasels over..."

Jan. 18, 2002 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The President's Analyst (1967)

The young, strong James Coburn was at the absolute height of his own particular cool in The President's Analyst, a film that warrants second-breath mention behind The Graduate and even Dr. Strangelove as a monumental Sixties improvisational comedy.

"...D: Theodore J. Flicker; with James Coburn, Godfrey Cambridge, Severn Darden, Joan Delaney, Barry McGuire,..."

Jan. 24, 2003 Screens Review by Shawn Badgley

Short Cuts

Say hello to two Patric(k)s, and goodbye to some recently departed film greats.

"...Sucker! I thought of it the moment I heard James Coburn had died. I guess the poster had been..."

Jan. 10, 2003 Screens Column by Marc Savlov

Ride Lonesome

"...Budd Boetticher. Starring: Randolph Scott, Karen Steele, Pernell Roberts, James Best, Lee Van Cleef and James Coburn. One of..."

June 3, 2002 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Man From Elysian Fields

"...Starring: Andy Garcia, Mick Jagger, Olivia Williams, Julianna Margulies, James Coburn, Anjelica Huston and Michael Des Barres. Is it..."

Oct. 25, 2002 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Sister Act Two: Back in the Habit

"...Directed by: Bill Duke. Starring: Whoopi Goldberg, Kathy Najimy, James Coburn, Maggie Smith, Wendy Makkena, Mary Wickes, Barnard Hughes,..."

Dec. 17, 1993 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Bad to the Bone

"...future. The son of an abusive and alcoholic father (James Coburn), Wade continues to live in the economically depressed..."

Feb. 19, 1999 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Keys to Tulsa

"...Greif. Starring: Eric Stoltz, Cameron Diaz, Mary Tyler Moore, James Coburn, James Spader, Michael Rooker, Joanna Going and Deborah..."

July 11, 1997 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Johnny English Strikes Again

Time to revoke this agent's license

"...Olga Kurylenko, Michael Gambon, Emma Thompson, Ben Miller, Adam James, Jake Lacy, Charles Dance and Edward Fox...."

Oct. 26, 2018 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Redboy Thirteen

"...to all those Hollywood Cold War relics such as James Coburn's Flint series and others. Playing it straight all..."

Nov. 6, 1998 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

From Script to Screen

"...Roy E. Disney, Stuart Gordon; with Joe Mantegna, Edward James Olmos, Esai Morales...."

Oct. 9, 1998 Screens Feature

Our Man Flint

"...Directed by: Daniel Mann. Starring: James Coburn, Lee J. Cobb and Gina Golan. Austin Powers..."

Jan. 13, 2003 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Magnificent Seven

Revisionist remake stars a diverse rainbow coalition

"...Brynner and the then-relatively-little-known actors Steve McQueen, Charles Bronson, James Coburn, and Robert Vaughn lent the film a desert-dry..."

Sept. 23, 2016 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

XXX

"...standards, a far cry from either Dean Martin or James Coburn. No, I think it's the former, and although..."

Aug. 9, 2002 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me

"...Myers delivers one of the best spy send-ups since James Coburn in In Like Flint (yet another cameo, by..."

June 11, 1999 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Chronicle Recommends: Films About Revolution

Watch the status quo crumble to pieces in these cinematic gems

"...Morricone. A very boozed-up Rod Steiger. A very vengeful James Coburn. Cinematography courtesy of Giuseppe Ruzzolini. Screenplay by Luciano..."

July 1, 2016 Screens Post by Chronicle Film Staff

That Old Revival Spirit

Testifying About Movies

"...Randolph Scott, Pernell Roberts, Karen Steele, Lee Van Cleef, James Coburn. (new print)..."

June 13, 1997 Screens Feature

Eraser

"...Directed by: Charles Russell. Starring: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Vanessa Williams, James Caan, James Coburn and Robert Pastorelli. Eraser is pretty..."

June 28, 1996 Movie Review by Joey O'Bryan

Letters at 3AM: Stirling at Road's End

Stirling Silliphant had a marvelous gift for writing, but he sold it out

"...a nondescript and broken man. I think of what James Baldwin said of his first artistic hero, Beauford Delaney:..."

April 22, 2011 Column by Michael Ventura

The Cinema of Possibilities

Low budget or big, the energy and imagination of the grind-house circuit is reborn in Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino's tribute

"...directed by Richard Brooks and starring Gene Hackman and James Coburn. The female lead was Candice Bergen, which is..."

April 6, 2007 Screens Feature by Louis Black

The Great Escape

One of the all-time great action movies also features an all-star international cast. Steve McQueen is unforgettable as the "Cooler King" in the drama about an Allied prisoner escape from a Nazi POW camp.

"...Directed by: John Sturges. Starring: Steve McQueen, James Garner, James Coburn, Charles Bronson, Richard Attenborough, David McCallum..."

Jan. 16, 2003 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Movies From the Mount

Sundance Film Festival

"...drama about hereditary male violence which stars Nick Nolte, James Coburn, Sissy Spacek, Willem Dafoe, and Mary Beth Hurt...."

Feb. 6, 1998 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

TV Eye

"...Steve McQueen, Eli Wallach, Charles Bronson, Robert Vaughn, and James Coburn -- they were all pretty much up-and-coming stars..."

Aug. 1, 1997 Screens Column by Margaret Moser

We Refuse To Grow Up

"...Gibson Haynes makes his debut, alongside the likes of James Coburn, on Comedy Central's Politically Incorrect. Mr. Haynes also..."

Sept. 13, 1996 Music Column

Maverick

"...Directed by: Richard Donner. Starring: Mel Gibson, Jodie Foster, James Garner, Graham Greene, James Coburn and Alfred Molina. Nothing..."

May 27, 1994 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Board-Breaking Box Sets

Bruce Lee dominates, of course

"...historic wuxia. But watching almost surreal footage – like James Coburn practicing roundhouse kicks in Lee's backyard – proves..."

Dec. 6, 2013 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

DVDanger: The Burning and The Town That Dreaded Sundown

Another gruesome twosome for your weekend's viewing

"...two of his films (Genesis: In Concert and the James Coburn-narrated Olympic documentary White Rock.) His only other narrative..."

May 25, 2013 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Letters at 3AM: 'Ever Ride the Waves in Oklahoma?'

"Route 66" spoke to the sense of change afoot in America

"...Duvall, Lee Marvin, Martin Sheen, Tuesday Weld, Tammy Grimes, James Coburn, Lois Nettleton, and Lois Smith. And nominees like..."

June 1, 2012 Column by Michael Ventura

Plastic Platoon

Paul Hanley and Kieran Healy on their 10-year tour of duty to make a stop-motion Vietnam epic starring action figures

"...of Sgt. Salt in our movie was actually a James Coburn in Cross of Iron knockoff figure, if you..."

Jan. 22, 2010 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

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