Edward Copeland on Film
 
Showing 1-10 of 156 records
 
Expand article

Centennial Tributes: Carole Lombard

The Article has images
2008-10-06 08:20:00 by Josh R in Edward Copeland on Film
...movies all day). Still, there are moments so well-remembered that they require no reinforcement: on her back in silk pajamas, flailing her legs in the air to fend off a wild-eyed John Barrymore in Twentieth Century ; explaining the pointlessness of scavenger hunts to William Powell in breathless, stream-of-consciousness fashion in My Man...
 
Tags: carole lombard, lombard, nature carole lombard, lombards, lombards genius, broad physical comedy, comedy, roles, set limits
 
 
 
 
Expand article

Enough beef for hungry cinephiles

The Article has images
2008-09-30 03:11:27 by Edward Copeland in Edward Copeland on Film
By Edward Copeland Has any filmmaker showed mastery in more genres than Howard Hawks? Sixty years ago today, Hawks released one of his best westerns (not a motel) in Red River , which also gave John Wayne one of his best roles and Montgomery Clift a notable early screen appearance. Hawks made other great westerns (most notably Rio Bravo , which...
 
Tags: howard hawks, hawks, favorite hawks, favorite, red river, wayne, character, character loses, wayne admittedly
 
 
 
 
Expand article

Paul Newman (1925-2008)

The Article has images
2008-09-27 14:02:00 by Edward Copeland in Edward Copeland on Film
...movies. His second teaming with Redford, The Sting , is still a joy to watch today and one of the most underrated best picture winners. He later scored two more best actor nominations for Absence of Malice and The Verdict . The Academy, feeling guilty that one of the biggest movie stars was zero for six (zero for seven if you count his...
 
Tags: newman, paul newman, oscar, honorary oscar, oscar nominations, oscar nomination, actor, actor nominations, film
 
 
 
 
Expand article

The thrill is gone

The Article has images
2008-09-26 23:44:00 by Edward Copeland in Edward Copeland on Film
By Edward Copeland As one of the girls is depressed in the big screen followup to Sex and the City, she asks one of her friends if she'll ever laugh again. I knew exactly how she felt as there is little humor to be found in this overlong and unnecessary spinoff from the great HBO series. I'm always a little trepidatious when a TV show turns out...
 
Tags: movie, movie version, hbo series, series, half-hour comedy, film version, movie belong, comedy, film
 
 
 
 
Expand article

Emmys are Sunday. Why don't I care?

The Article has images
2008-09-19 15:18:00 by Edward Copeland in Edward Copeland on Film
By Edward Copeland I've been an award show nut since I was a wee lad, but as I've grown I've dumped more and more of the galas. The People's Choice Awards were banned before I was out of elementary school when one year they nominated Clint Eastwood for favorite television star and he wasn't even on anything on TV. During high school, I finally...
 
Tags: comedy series, comedy series categories, emmys, elementary school, nominations, school, drama series nomination, guest actor nomination, favorite television star
 
 
 
 
Expand article

Borders are man-made -- nature couldn't care less

The Article has images
2008-09-12 23:17:00 by Edward Copeland in Edward Copeland on Film
By Edward Copeland It is fairly routine for directors to make two (or more) classics in a row, but it still amazes when they do and Jean Renoir did just that the year before he released his masterpiece The Rules of the Game when he directed the World War I drama Grand Illusion. The film opened in the U.S. 70 years ago today and while it's a...
 
Tags: grand illusion, drama grand illusion, foreign language category, edward copeland, fairly routine, jean renoir, world war, common occurrence, energy
 
 
 
 
Expand article

Centennial Tributes: Fred MacMurray

The Article has images
2008-08-30 05:02:00 by Josh R in Edward Copeland on Film
By Josh R For the first decade of his career, Fred MacMurray was a model of gentlemanly comportment. Pleasant in manner and appearance, he provided a strong shoulder for Hollywoods top female stars to lean and occasionally weep on in a series of films in which his function was clearly secondary. Not that MacMurray seemed to register any of the...
 
Tags: macmurray, fred macmurray, macmurray spares, macmurray graciously, macmurray happily, billy wilder film, film, bitter fatalism macmurray, actor
 
 
 
 
Expand article

To all the posts I didn't write

The Article has images
2008-08-10 23:00:00 by Edward Copeland in Edward Copeland on Film
In the world according to her father, Jenny Garp knew, we must have energy. Her famous grandmother, Jenny Fields, once thought of us as Externals, Vital Organs, Absentees, and Goners. But in the world according to Garp, we are all terminal cases By Edward Copeland Energy is something I've sadly lacked for most of the year, one that prevented me...
 
Tags: 30th anniversary piece, 30th anniversary, film, long-term care hospital, hospital, foreign language film, piece, garp, jenny garp
 
 
 
 
Expand article

Devil May Care by Sebastian Faulks as Ian Fleming

The Article has images
2008-07-17 01:16:00 by Jeffrey Hill in Edward Copeland on Film
By Jeffrey Hill Writing a Bond novel when youre not Ian Fleming must be a problematic endeavor despite the many templates from John Gardner, Kingsley Amis and Raymond Benson. Unlike those writers, Sebastian Faulks did not approach the project carrying the baggage of being a long-time Fleming aficionado. According to a Times Online interview ,...
 
Tags: faulks, faulks takes, throwbacks, faulks throwbacks, faulks manages, faulks favorite bond, fault faulks, faulks effort, faulks pays homage