Critical Essay by Pauline Kael
There is a sequence of a girl dancing in A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum but the director, Richard Lester, breaks it up so much with camera and editing t...
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Critical Essay by John Simon
Intelligent reinterpretation is one thing; sensationalistic or smartass revisionism, quite another. [In Robin and Marian] we take Robin Hood, his merry men, and Maid Mari...
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Critical Essay by Judith Crist
[Robin and Marian provides] a worldly, wise, and witty response to our eternal wonderment about how our heroes lived ever after, happily or not….
[It is] a st...
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Critical Essay by John Simon
Richard Lester is a competent farce director, whether he is directing farce or anything else. Yet [The Ritz] falls, unfarcically, flat….
[Farce], especially the...
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Critical Essay by Jay Cocks
Antic, frantic, mechanical but amusing anyhow, The Ritz is of particular interest because it is the first major movie about homosexuality that does not give a thought to r...
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Critical Essay by Stanley Kauffmann
As far as theme is concerned, [Butch and Sundance: The Early Days] might as well be called The Deer Hunter: The Early Days. Once more we plunge into the primal Ame...
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Critical Essay by Andrew Sarris
The good news is that Butch and Sundance: The Early Days can stand on its own four feet without making us sob longingly for the original. Lester has achieved a cooler ...
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Critical Essay by Andrew Sarris
Against the background of a return to flag-waving patriotism, demonically derisive movies like Richard Lester's Cuba … seem suddenly anachronistic in the...
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Critical Essay by Jules Feiffer
[In A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum] Richard Lester has painted on film a manic montage of vaudeville turns, girlie-book jokes, movie bits and gag carto...
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Critical Essay by Penelope Houston
[On the one hand, Lester's film A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum has] the framework of [Bert] Shevelove and [Larry] Gelbart's Broadway h...
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Today is Friday, Jan. 19, the 19th day of 2007. There are 346 days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:Two hundred years ago, on Jan. 19, 1807, Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee was born in ...
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Lacking in Lodi: A Lodi, California, man is suing the city for $3600 for driving a dump truck into his car. The only thing is, he was the city employee driving the truck. The city denied the s...
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AWAY FROM HER Running Time 110 minutes Written and directed by Sarah Polley Starring Julie Christie, Gordon Pinsent, Olympia Dukakis
Sarah Polley’s Away From Her, from her own screenplay, ...
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By the time I sat down for a studio screening of Ang Lee’s Brokeback Mountain, I was braced by all the advance hype from Venice and Toronto, as well as the local showbiz columns and media out...
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By the time I sat down for a studio screening of Ang Lee’s Brokeback Mountain, I was braced by all the advance hype from Venice and Toronto, as well as the local showbiz columns and media out...
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Critical Essay by Pauline Kael
Today in history - Jan. 19
