The Wild Goose Lake

Chinese noir stumbles over its own remarkable style

"...him. It's a perfect meet-anti-cute — him all burned-out Robert Mitchum cool, her with that Veronica Lake don't-care-stare (or..."

March 27, 2020 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Joe Bob Briggs Teaches the History of Redneck Cinema

The original Hellbilly Deluxe

"...wild, midnight moonshine riders down that legendary Thunder Road? Robert Mitchum his own bad self crooned the red-hot rockabilly..."

Nov. 8, 2019 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

July Is Crime Month: The Crime Blotter, Week 2

A curated guide to unlawful activities around town July 8-14

"...heralded as a masterpiece of mood and menace, with Robert Mitchum's psychotic ex-con posing as a preacher – this..."

July 7, 2019 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Thunder Road

SXSW award winner is a captivating study of a mess of a man

"...Sixty years after Robert Mitchum ran moonshine down Thunder Road in the durable..."

Oct. 12, 2018 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Derrick Sims is The Perfect Host

Filmmaker talks Southern Gothic before world premiere tonight

"...Frances (Janis Duley) is loosely based off Robert Mitchum’s character ... if he were a woman, more..."

Aug. 22, 2018 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Paramount Announces Summer Classic Film Series Lineup

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

"...(1976, 114min/color, DCP) Robert De Niro, Jodie Foster, Albert Brooks, Harvey Keitel, Peter..."

May 16, 2017 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

July Is Crime Month: Fade to Black

Screen noir this week at AFS, the Paramount, and BookPeople

"...filmmakers such as Jacques Tourneur (Out of the Past), Robert Aldrich (Kiss Me Deadly), Ida Lupino (The Hitch-Hiker), and..."

July 21, 2014 Screens Post by Robert Faires

A Tall Drink of Water

Stars we love at the Paramount Summer Classic Film series

"...of Willa Harper, Winters really only serves one purpose. Robert Mitchum made that explicit when he reportedly said, "The..."

May 16, 2014 Screens Feature by Brandon Watson

Letters at 3AM: Musicians of Behavior

Actors are musicians of behavior

"...that belies the simplicity of her songs. John Wayne, Robert Mitchum, and Audrey Hepburn – they did the same..."

May 2, 2014 Column by Michael Ventura

The Best of Chris Isaak

Stylish, Orbison-esque crooner hits the Moody

"...love songs about cars. I like “Thunder Road” by Robert Mitchum (who, by the way, can really sing), but..."

Sept. 4, 2013 Music Post by Margaret Moser

FF2012: Kier-La Janisse is in the House...

…of Psychotic Women

"...The interplay between Mia Farrow and Liz Taylor and Robert Mitchum really amazing. It's one of those movies that..."

Sept. 20, 2012 Screens Post by Marc Savlov

Restorative Powers

Scorsese nonprofit teams with Mondo & Alamo for film series

"...a Doubt, though Cotten's Uncle Charlie's got nothing on Robert Mitchum's murderous con man with hate in his heart..."

May 2, 2012 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Good Gossip Never Gets Old

Star-studier Anne Helen Petersen on old-school scandal

"...series is great all-access writing to old-school stars like Robert Mitchum, Ingrid Bergman, and Clara Bow. Steamy stuff, but,..."

June 15, 2011 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Letters at 3AM: The Bad and the Beautiful

Film noir cuts through the cant of America's idealism

"...of order that this film is intent on violating. Robert Mitchum's gas station was right across the street. Ann..."

May 20, 2011 Column by Michael Ventura

The Wizardly Way

Human Centipede, Abe Sapien and more speak at Austin Comic Con

"...it as a panoramic Gothic western, starring "Joan Jett, Robert Mitchum and this seven foot creepy guy that you..."

Nov. 18, 2010 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Drawing Inspiration Out of the Past

Writer Barry Gifford, still Wild at Heart

"...form melting into another, his hours not spent watching Robert Mitchum duke it out from the past with Kirk..."

Oct. 8, 2010 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Remembering 'Easy Rider' and 'The Last Movie'

CinemaTexas program notes

"...Marilyn Schlossberg. Second assistant director: Len Marsal. Prop master: Robert O'Neil. Makeup: Virgil Frye. Special effects: Steve Karkus. Still..."

June 4, 2010 Screens Feature

Cabin Fever DVDs: Lars Nilsen

Film rental picks for a frigid forecast

"...Kind of Woman "… a John Farrow film starring Robert Mitchum, Jane Russell, and Vincent Price that takes place..."

Jan. 6, 2010 Screens Post by Marc Savlov

'The Friends of Eddie Coyle'; 'The Hit'

It's all about the snitches in two new Criterion releases

"...Breaking Away, and The Dresser. As Eddie "Fingers" Coyle, Robert Mitchum gave Yates' color noir the hangdog slump of..."

June 12, 2009 Screens Review by Raoul Hernandez

A Life of His Own

Diving right in with Tab Hunter

"...Ride the Wild Surf, with Fabian, Barbara Eden, and Robert Mitchum's son James. That's one of the few film..."

June 1, 2007 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

If You're a Viper

From 'La Cucaracha' to Snoop Dogg and Willie Nelson: P-O-T

"...A photo of actor Robert Mitchum at the police station, busted in 1948 while..."

May 25, 2007 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

'Possession Arrow': Barnes<->Huggins

"...Our former colleague Steve Lavin just called you the "Robert Mitchum of college basketball." Does that make me the..."

Feb. 3, 2007 Sports Post by Shawn Badgley

The Dick Cavett Show: Hollywood Greats

These vintage interviews could not take place today; the guests had no movies to plug and 90 minutes in which not to plug them

"...might ask if they found themselves sitting next to Robert Mitchum after a couple of martinis ("So, what is..."

Sept. 29, 2006 Screens Review by Steve Uhler

New Year, Old Films

Mid-20th-century must-sees: Part I

"...his work. The rest of the movie, directed by Robert Siodmak and starring Burt Lancaster, is a noir that..."

Dec. 30, 2005 Screens Feature by Louis Black

Film News

Linklater maps out our 'Fast Food Nation'; plus, Andrew Shapter, Dante James, and a Mitchum among us

"...• Lone Star Trail: Bentley Mitchum, grandson of Robert Mitchum, is currently directing his own..."

May 13, 2005 Screens Column by Joe O'Connell

Splendor in the Short Grass: The Grover Lewis Reader

Jesus Christ! What are these words? Hincty, goudge, donicker, furze, rick, pecksniff, flapdoodle fantod, tumerling? What kind of screwball whips out stuff like this?

"...worshiped the right kind of pop figures (Lightning Hopkins, Robert Mitchum, Sam Peckinpah) and sneered at the rest. His..."

April 22, 2005 Books Review by Brant Bingamon

Staying Alive

You don't even want to know

"...and TV tough guy Peter Brown battle James "Eskimo" Mitchum (son of Robert) on the big waves. Bleached-blonde Shelley..."

Jan. 21, 2005 Screens Review by Marrit Ingman

SXSW Interview: Walter Yetnikoff

Ballroom Dancing: Music Panels

"...Yetnikoff quipped, "but I have my heart set on Robert Mitchum, so there's a slight problem."..."

March 19, 2004 Music Review by Greg Beets

Standing by Stanley

It's a mad, mad, mad, mad interview with actor Karen Sharpe Kramer, the widow of the iconoclastic director.

"...John Wayne (The High and the Mighty, 1954) and Robert Mitchum (Man With the Gun, 1955) feels like that..."

Nov. 21, 2003 Screens Feature by Courtney Fitzgerald

Let the Work Speak for Itself

Yaphet Kotto, the First African-American in Space

"...these people. I worked with Edward G. Robinson and Robert Mitchum. I came out of this Hollywood system of..."

Oct. 31, 2003 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

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