Mistress

"...De Niro, Jean Smart, Laurie Metcalf, Eli Wallach, Sheryl Lee Ralph and Tuesday Knight. Marvin Landisman (Wuhl) was once..."

Nov. 20, 1992 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Red 2

No wonder Bruce Willis has become the king of the sequels: He reliably delivers more of whatever it is we liked the last time.

"...Mary-Louise Parker, Helen Mirren, Anthony Hopkins, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Byung-hun Lee, Neal McDonough and David Thewlis...."

July 19, 2013 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Death Watch: Texas Goes Through With Wilson Execution

Supreme Court declines to intervene in case of man with IQ of 61

"...Despite the lingering questions about Marvin Lee Wilson's mental abilities, both Gov. Rick Perry and..."

Aug. 8, 2012 News Post by Jordan Smith

Death Watch: Texas Set to Kill Mentally Disabled Man

Few hours remain for Supremes to step in

"...Court intervenes to stop it, Texas tonight will execute Marvin Lee Wilson, even as advocates continue to cry foul...."

Aug. 7, 2012 News Post by Jordan Smith

Point Blank

"...Point Blank D: John Boorman (1967); with Lee Marvin, Angie Dickinson, John Vernon, Carroll O'Connor, Keenan Wynn,..."

Oct. 29, 1999 Screens Review by Jerry Renshaw

Second Coming

Close Encounters of the Third Kind: Definitive Director's Cut (1977)

"...D: John Ford; with James Stewart, John Wayne, Lee Marvin, Edmond O'Brien, Andy Devine...."

July 30, 1999 Screens Feature

DVDanger: A Bad Case of the Sequels

Retreads, remakes, and do-overs rule the home releases

"...95 minutes, or until creeping tedium lulls you to sleep...."

July 28, 2015 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Prime Cut

"...Prime CutD: Michael Ritchie (1972); with Lee Marvin, Gene Hackman, Sissy Spacek, Angel Tompkins, Gregory Walcott...."

Oct. 29, 1999 Screens Review by Jerry Renshaw

Donovan's Reef

"...Directed by: John Ford. Starring: John Wayne, Lee Marvin, Jack Warden, Elizabeth Allen, Cesar Romero and Dorothy..."

July 29, 1999 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Overlord

How do you make killing Nazi zombies this dull?

"...(Russell, doing his best Tom Berenger in Platoon meets Lee Marvin in The Big Red One); and Boyce (Adepo),..."

Nov. 9, 2018 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

My Extraordinary Ordinary Life

Sissy Spacek's memoir is as easy to read as it is a pleasure to digest

"...spare portraits of the elusive Terrence Malick and hard-drinking Lee Marvin, but even when she wins the Oscar for..."

May 4, 2012 Screens Feature by Margaret Moser

Play It Again, Sam

All About Eve (1950)

"...D: Robert Aldrich; with Lee Marvin, Ernest Borgnine, Jim Brown, Charles Bronson, John Cassavetes,..."

June 4, 1999 Screens Feature

No Prozac for the Wicked

The Cool Capers of Donald Westlake

"...Blank! With a stellar cast led by the inimitable Lee Marvin, director John Boorman transformed Westlake's original caper/revenge tale..."

Dec. 26, 1997 Books Feature by Jesse Sublett

Plastic Platoon

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

"...took the two of them – with assistance from Lee Sparks in the miniatures department and a handful of..."

Jan. 22, 2010 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

DVD Watch: 'Jodorowsky's Dune'

Documentary about a film that never was heads this week's releases

"...(Warner) "I want my money. I want my $93,000." Lee Marvin's masterclass in revenge, adapted from Richard Stark's blissfully..."

July 8, 2014 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

The Dirty Dozen (1967)

Twelve convicted felons

"...the desk. Before him, in an undersized chair, is Lee Marvin, who not only looks cool, he sits cool,..."

May 17, 2013 Screens Feature by Leah Churner

Into the Night With Joe Taslim and Timo Tjahjanto

Indonesian action flick The Night Comes For Us pulls no punches

"...martial arts actors who were trying to be Bruce Lee, and suddenly there's this guy like Lee Marvin. 'I'm..."

Oct. 19, 2018 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Punk Legend John Doe Presents at AFS Cinema

The L.A. to Austin transplant on acting: "I want to be sideways!"

"..."Howe Gelb says that I'm the Lee Marvin of punk rock!" laughed John Doe, Austin resident..."

Aug. 2, 2019 Screens Feature by Tim Stegall

Fantastic Fest: Redeemer

FF's favorite head cracker Marko Zaror returns as divine justice

"...Espinoza has become the Robert Clouse to his Bruce Lee - the director that gets how to shoot him,..."

Sept. 21, 2014 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance

This is the American classic that uses the now-famous line: "When the legend becomes fact, print the legend." Ford addresses the complexity of heroism in a poetic manner.

"...John Ford. Starring: James Stewart, John Wayne, Vera Miles, Lee Marvin, Edmond O'Brien, Andy Devine, Woody Strode, Strother Martin,..."

July 29, 1999 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Heading Down to Rock Steady Row

Director Trevor Stevens on his post-Apocalyptic college comedy

"...of a mysterious freshman (Heston Horwin), he goes full Lee Marvin in Point Blank to get it back...."

July 25, 2018 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Fantastic Fest Review: Wheelman

Frank Grillo drives through the night

"...and lean, in the lineage of Charles Bronson and Lee Marvin. He's got a face that looks like it..."

Sept. 25, 2017 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

DVDanger: Mad Max

Before we hit Fury Road, the original revs up

"...a civilization on the cusp. He's what happens if Lee Marvin's Chino takes over the Black Rebel Motorcycle Club..."

May 9, 2015 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Chronicle Recommends: Short Story Films

Small stories find their Hollywood ending

"...a similar route with his film version, which stars Lee Marvin, Angie Dickinson, John Cassavetes, Clu Gulager, and Ronald..."

Feb. 27, 2015 Screens Post by Chronicle Film Staff

Face Off Recap: King of the World

Season four begins, and the sideburns are awesome

"...connected to any contestants. We viewers have become like Lee Marvin in The Big Red One. These rookies are..."

Jan. 16, 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

"...Crawford, Buster Keaton, Dorothy Malone, Walter Matthau, Robert Duvall, Lee Marvin, Martin Sheen, Tuesday Weld, Tammy Grimes, James Coburn,..."

June 1, 2012 Column by Michael Ventura

Letters at 3AM: Stirling at Road's End

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

"...Sidney, Walter Matthau, Dan Duryea, Robert Duvall, Ethel Waters, Lee Marvin, Rod Steiger, Lois Nettleton, Martin Sheen, James Caan,..."

April 22, 2011 Column by Michael Ventura

A Tribute to Elizabeth Taylor

Turner Classic Movies offers 24 hours of Liz

"...Raintree County (1957), with Montgomery Clift, Eva Marie Saint, Lee Marvin, Rod Taylor and Agnes Moorehead; directed by Edward..."

March 23, 2011 Screens Post by Belinda Acosta

Any Given Wednesday

One man, 10 years, some seriously sublime weirdness

"...Shatner's "tarantula dance"), John Boorman's surrealistic masterpiece Point Blank (Lee Marvin's scowl alone deserved an Oscar), and a smashed,..."

Feb. 18, 2011 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Fantastic Fest: 'Red'

Karl Urban talks Bruce Willis and his Dreddful future

"...hear his tales about old-time Hollywood. He'd talk about Lee Marvin and San Peckinpah. It was just amazing."..."

Sept. 30, 2010 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

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