Stone Soul Booksigning

Interview With Filmmaker and Author Oliver Stone

"...Oliver Stone at the Paramount photograph by Minh Oliver Stone..."

Oct. 17, 1997 Screens Feature by Edward Lagrossa

Snowden

Oliver Stone tackles the famous whistleblower

"...Directed by: Oliver Stone. Starring: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Shailene Woodley, Melissa Leo, Zachary..."

Sept. 16, 2016 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

U-Turn

"...Directed by: Oliver Stone. Starring: Sean Penn, Jennifer Lopez, Nick Nolte, Powers..."

Oct. 3, 1997 Movie Review by Russell Smith

Heaven & Earth

"...Directed by: Oliver Stone. Starring: Hiep Thi Le, Tommy Lee Jones, Joan..."

Dec. 24, 1993 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

JFK

Oliver Stone gives the "lone gunman" assassination theory a run for its money.

"...Directed by: Oliver Stone. Starring: Kevin Costner, Tommy Lee Jones, Sissy Spacek,..."

Dec. 27, 1991 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

World Trade Center

This is not the 9/11 film we expected from Stone, who tells the fact-based story of two individuals who somehow survived the collapse of the World Trade Center and with a remarkable economy of expressionistic detail and bombast.

"...Directed by: Oliver Stone. Starring: Nicolas Cage, Michael Peña, Jay Hernandez, Armando..."

Aug. 11, 2006 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Alexander

Oliver Stone has achieved the impossible: He's made the life of Alexander the Great seem boring.

"...Directed by: Oliver Stone. Starring: Colin Farrell, Angelina Jolie, Val Kilmer, Anthony..."

Nov. 26, 2004 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Natural Born Killers

Stone grabs our collective viscera and never lets go for the next two hours.

"...Directed by: Oliver Stone. Starring: Woody Harrelson, Juliette Lewis, Robert Downey Jr.,..."

Aug. 26, 1994 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Natural Selection

This locally shot black comedy examines the bizarre feedback loop that exists among celebrity psychopaths, the increasingly tabloidized mainstream news media, and, not least, our own bad selves.

"...as the solution. This locally shot black comedy, like Oliver Stone's Natural Born Killers, examines the bizarre feedback loop..."

Feb. 4, 2000 Movie Review by Russell Smith

Dick

"...applied to the Nixon years in the form of Oliver Stone's pedantic Nixon, but Fleming (The Craft, Threesome) goes..."

Aug. 6, 1999 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

3000 Miles to Graceland

"...doesn't help matters by raiding both Michael Bay and Oliver Stone's bag of tricks, often simultaneously. Stylistic excesses such..."

Feb. 23, 2001 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Bringing Out the Dead

"...up till now she's been the actor's equivalent of Stoned Wheat Thins -- and judging from her performance here..."

Oct. 29, 1999 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Plump Fiction

"...unfunny take on the films of Quentin Tarantino and Oliver Stone, and even with the considerable talents of Davidson..."

Sept. 4, 1998 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Pelican Brief

"...places (perhaps he should think about teaming up with Oliver Stone) to adapt the Grisham best-seller to the screen...."

Dec. 17, 1993 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Ruby

"...hustled along to cash in on the success of Oliver Stone's JFK. They get the period details right and..."

April 3, 1992 Movie Review by Kathleen Maher

Body Parts

"...too much story line cribbed from that awful Michael Caine/Oliver Stone vehicle The Hand, but that's not the heart..."

Aug. 9, 1991 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Any Given Sunday

Stone's tale of a professional football team is full of excess, machismo, and a ripped-out eyeball.

"...Directed by: Oliver Stone. Starring: Al Pacino, Dennis Quaid, James Woods, Cameron..."

Dec. 24, 1999 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Savages

Oliver Stone’s movie is volatile, nasty, hypnotic, gory, and nearly irrestible – at least when the young 'uns aren't onscreen.

"...Directed by: Oliver Stone. Starring: Taylor Kitsch, Blake Lively, Aaron Johnson, John..."

July 6, 2012 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

W.

Oliver Stone’s Bush portrait is a tale of two movies: one a humanizing portrait of a failure as a young man, the other a damning but unsurprising look inside an administration gone loopy on ideological zealotry.

"...Directed by: Oliver Stone. Starring: Josh Brolin, Elizabeth Banks, James Cromwell, Ellen..."

Oct. 17, 2008 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps

Oliver Stone delivers an enlivening and wickedly entertaining take on the occasional angels and plentiful demons that have run the country into financial ruin.

"...Directed by: Oliver Stone. Starring: Shia LaBeouf, Michael Douglas, Carey Mulligan, Josh..."

Sept. 24, 2010 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Scanlines

"...Juliette Lewis and Woody Harrelson star in Oliver Stone's Natural Born Killers. You'd think that if some..."

April 17, 1998 Screens Feature

The Pen-Ultimate Fest

Austin Heart of Film Screenwriting Conference & Festival

"...Free-for-all with Dennis Hopper, Bud Shrake and Oliver Stone photograph by Minh..."

Oct. 10, 1997 Screens Feature by Russell Smith

All Wrapped Up

From biopics to end-of-day thrillers, a look at the films you'll be standing in line for this Christmas.

"...material (Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown); Oliver Stone uncovers football's front-office conspiracies in Any Given Sunday;..."

Nov. 26, 1999 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Art is a put-up-or-

"...Carol Pierce's Bad Girls Upset by the Truth. (Rolling Stone and Pulse, among others, agree with my assessment, so..."

Jan. 5, 1996 Column

Say Anything

Eric Bogosian Comes Clean

"...AC: Did Oliver Stone see Talk Radio and just kind of say,..."

Nov. 3, 1995 Arts Feature

Fade In

Austin Heart of Film Screenwriters Conference & Festival

"...made. So by having public screenings with people like Oliver Stone, Buck Henry, Bud Shrake, and Dennis Hopper doing..."

Oct. 3, 1997 Screens Feature by Russell Smith

The Other Stars in the Galaxy

"...GET REAL D: Simon Shore; with Ben Silverstone, Brad Gorton, Charlotte Brittain...."

May 21, 1999 Screens Feature

Film Sense and Sensibilities

1995 in Review

"...have found Nixon to be the film that rehabilitates Oliver Stone. You know, that Oliver Stone of JFK and..."

Jan. 12, 1996 Screens Feature

Scanlines

"...D: Oliver Stone (1991)..."

Nov. 27, 1998 Screens Feature

Kill the Messenger

Jeremy Renner stars in this crusading-journalist story that recounts the downfall of real-life San Jose Mercury News reporter Gary Webb.

"...K. Williams, Tim Blake Nelson, Paz Vega, Michael Sheen, Oliver Platt, Andy Garcia, Yul Vazquez, Dan Futterman, Richard Schiff..."

Oct. 10, 2014 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

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