Dustin Hoffman Articles

STRAW DOGS (1971) Direction: Sam Peckinpah Cast: Dustin Hoffman, Susan George, Peter Vaughan, T. P. McKenna, Del Henney, Jim Norton, Donald Webster, Ken Hutchison, Len Jones, Sally Thomsett, Robert Keegan, Peter Arne Screenplay: David Zelag Goodman and Sam Peckinpah; from Gordon Williams' novel The Siege of Trencher's Farm Oscar Movies Dustin Hoffman, Susan George, Straw Dogs By Dan Schneider of Cosmoetica: If there has ever [...]

WHO IS HARRY KELLERMAN AND WHY IS HE SAYING THOSE TERRIBLE THINGS ABOUT ME? (1971) Direction: Ulu Grosbard Cast: Dustin Hoffman, Barbara Harris, Jack Warden, David Burns, Gabriel Dell, Betty Walker, Rose Gregorio, Dom De Luise Screenplay: Herb Gardner Oscar Movies Dustin Hoffman, Who is Harry Kellerman and Why is He Saying Those Terrible Things About Me? To call Who is Harry Kellerman and Why [...]

MARATHON MAN (1976) Direction: John Schlesinger Cast: Dustin Hoffman, Laurence Olivier, Roy Scheider, William Devane, Marthe Keller, Fritz Weaver, Richard Bright, Marc Lawrence Screenplay: William Goldman; from his own novel Oscar Movies Laurence Olivier, Marathon Man The deadliest sin a good-guy-vs.-bad-guy movie can commit is to — unintentionally — have us root for the evildoer. That is exactly what director John Schlesinger (Darling; Midnight Cowboy; [...]

Valerie Perrine, Dustin Hoffman in Bob Fosse's Lenny LENNY Review Part I Bob Fosse's direction is hardly any help. Throughout much of the film, Fosse's touch is either too heavy or too squeamish. Bruce's private dramas are handled with an overemphasis that turns them into lurid melodrama, while sex scenes and drug-soaked orgies could have been directed with more verve by cloistered nuns. And if [...]