James Dean Articles

Dennis Hopper will have his day — or rather, evening — on Turner Classic Movies on Tuesday, June 8. TCM has rescheduled its primetime and overnight lineup in honor of actor-director-screenwriter Hopper, who died May 29 at the age of 74. The most interesting-sounding of the five scheduled Hopper films is the one I haven’t seen, yet: Curtis Harrington’s Night Tide (1963), about a sailor [...]

Robert Pattinson’s rebellious Tyler Hawkins in Allen Coulter’s family/romantic drama Remember Me was frequently compared — often not too kindly — to James Dean, the star of Rebel Without a Cause, East of Eden, and Giant. Pattinson has previously mentioned his admiration for Dean, who died at age 24 in a car crash in 1955, and does so again in this interview published a couple [...]

James Dean Giant (top); Alan Ladd, Jean Arthur, Van Heflin Shane (bottom) George Stevens will be the star attraction of Turner Classic Movies‘ Monday evenings in April. The series begins tonight at 5 p.m. PDT with a showing of Giant (1956), one of Stevens’ best-known films. Some find this tale of oil, ranching, and greed bloated; I found it highly enjoyable despite — or perhaps [...]

Robert Pattinson’s Tyler Hawkins in Allen Coulter’s romantic drama Remember Me (above, with Emilie de Ravin, Pierce Brosnan) has been compared to James Dean’s characters in the 1955 classics East of Eden and Rebel Without a Cause. Created by Will Fetters, the early 21st-century Tyler feels he’s misunderstood by his wealthy father (Brosnan), has a troubled relationship with a young woman (de Ravin), and is [...]