Blu-ray Review: Rachel, Rachel (Warner Archive)
Paul Newman’s directorial debut is a showcase for his wife Joanne Woodward, who received an Oscar nomination for her performance.
The Three Faces of Eve (Blu-ray)
Joanne Woodward won an Oscar for her effective portrayal of Eve White, an otherwise normal housewife suffering from multiple-personality disorder in The Three Faces of Eve. Inside Eve White also lurks Eve Black, an aggressively sexual woman, and Jane, a smart, levelheaded modern woman. What in 1957 seemed risky—it’s doubtful that everyone in the audience […]
Blu-ray Review: WUSA
During the late 1960’s, Paul Newman was one of sizable group of Hollywood celebrities with a growing concern over the rising social and political unrest across America. Fresh off a string of successes, including Cool Hand Luke, and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Newman decided to produce WUSA, based the novel A Hall of […]
DVD Review: A Big Hand for the Little Lady (Warner Archive Collection)
Produced and directed by Fielder Cook from a screenplay by Sidney Carroll, adapted from their TV play Big Deal in Laredo (which had originally aired on the DuPont Show of the Week in 1962), A Big Hand for the Little Lady (1966) stars Henry Fonda as Meredith, a gambler trying to resist the urge to […]
DVD Review: King – A Filmed Record…From Montgomery to Memphis
Rarely available in its full form since 1970 Ely Landau’s King: A Filmed Record is one of the most important documents of the American civil rights movement. Told without traditional narration, this 181-minute documentary follows the last thirteen years of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s public life. The occasional subtitle is used to identify dates, […]
DVD Review: Leading Ladies Collection Volume 2
Warner Brothers has released Leading Ladies Collection Volume 2. The set consists of A Big Hand for the Little Lady starring Joanne Woodward, Henry Fonda and Jason Robards, I’ll Cry Tomorrow starring Susan Hayward, Rich and Famous starring Candice Bergen and Jacqueline Bisset, Shoot the Moon starring Diane Keaton and Albert Finney and Up the […]