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Posts Tagged "Sam Shepard"
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Crimes of the Heart *** (1986, Diane Keaton, Jessica Lange, Sissy Spacek, Sam Shepard, Tess Harper, Hurd Hatfield) – Classic Movie Review 5875
Beth Henley reworks her own Pulitzer-prizewinning play as a vehicle for three of Hollywood’s top Eighties stars, Diane Keaton, Jessica Lange, and Sissy Spacek as Lenny, Meg and Becky ‘Babe’ Magrath, eccentric Southern sisters undergoing […]
Days of Heaven ***** (1978, Richard Gere, Brooke Adams, Sam Shepard) – Classic Movie Review 2995
Writer-director Terrence Malick’s second movie after his impressive debut with Badlands in 1973 is this startlingly and spectacularly beautiful 1978 movie focusing on a ménage à trois love story set among the wheatfields of the […]
Safe Passage *** (1994, Susan Sarandon, Sam Shepard, Nick Stahl, Sean Astin, Robert Sean Leonard, Marcia Gay Harden, Jason London) – Classic Movie Review 2881
Director Robert Allan Ackerman’s very typically American 1994 rites-of-passage movie is sentimental, often satisfying and ultimately warm and cosy, like a log fire in winter. After playing the matriarch Mrs March in the 1994 Little Women, Susan […]
Frances **** (1982, Jessica Lange, Kim Stanley, Sam Shepard) – Classic Movie Review 2869
Jessica Lange as Best Actress and Kim Stanley as Best Supporting Actress were both Oscar and Golden Globe nominated and burn into the memory as the tormented Thirties movie star Frances Farmer and her demented […]
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford ****½ (2007, Brad Pitt, Casey Affleck, Sam Shepard, Sam Rockwell) – Classic Movie Review 2400
Casey Affleck gives a superbly snivelling performance as the 20-year-old rat-like coward Robert Ford, who has idolised the Missouri outlaw gang leader Jesse James since childhood. Director Andrew Dominik‘s 2007 movie takes its place as one […]
The Right Stuff ***** (1983, Sam Shepard, Scott Glenn, Ed Harris, Dennis Quaid) – Classic Movie Review 1852
Writer-director Philip Kaufman’s exhilarating, four Oscar-winning, three-hour-plus 1983 space epic is a movie with all the right stuff itself. There are two storylines. One is the début of America’s astronauts and the original Mercury 7 […]
Paris, Texas ***** (1984, Harry Dean Stanton, Nastassja Kinski, Dean Stockwell) – Classic Movie Review 1770
Director Wim Wenders’s 1984 drama is a dazzling cult classic, with all concerned working on inspired form. The sizzling screenplay by playwright Sam Shepard and Texan writer L M Kit Carson (who did the adaptation) vibrantly captures […]