Dustin Hoffman

Who Is Harry Kellerman and Why Is He Saying Those Terrible Things About Me? starring Dustin Hoffman. Long-titled movie ‘Who Is Harry Kellerman and Why Is He Saying Those Terrible Things About Me?’: Messy filmmaking with one single bright spot To call Who Is Harry…

Lenny Bruce: Dustin Hoffman in the 1974 Bob Fosse movie. Lenny Bruce movie review: Polemical stand-up comedian merited less timid biopic Bob Fosse’s 1974 biopic Lenny has two chief assets: the ever relevant free speech issues it raises and the riveting presence of Valerie Perrine.…

Straw Dogs with Dustin Hoffman and Susan George: Infamous rape scene. If there has ever been a more over-interpreted and misinterpreted film than director Sam Peckinpah’s 1971 drama Straw Dogs, I’ve yet to encounter it. Citizen Kane and 2001: A Space Odyssey have had more…

Marathon Man with Laurence Olivier. 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; Sunday, Bloody Sunday) and screenwriter William Goldman (adapting his own novel,…

Jessica Alba in Little Fockers. Best known for her portrayal of Sue Storm in two Fantastic Four movies, Jessica Alba displays to advantage her face and figure in Paul Weitz’s critically lambasted Christmas season box office hit Little Fockers, starring Ben Stiller, and two-time Oscar…

Dustin Hoffman in The Graduate: Top classic movies at “Last Remaining Seats” series in Los Angeles. The L.A. Conservancy has announced a list of tentative titles for the 2010 edition of “Last Remaining Seats,” held annually at old movie palaces in downtown Los Angeles. They…

Midnight Cowboy with Jon Voight and Dustin Hoffman. John Schlesinger’s 1969 socio-psychological drama Midnight Cowboy, one of the better best picture Oscar winners, will be screened as part of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ “Monday Nights with Oscar” series on Monday, March…

Last Chance Harvey with Emma Thompson and Dustin Hoffman. Screenwriter-director Joel Hopkins’ Anglo-American co-production Last Chance Harvey will open the 2009 Palm Springs Film Festival. The romantic comedy stars two-time Oscar winners Dustin Hoffman (Kramer vs. Kramer, 1979; Rain Man, 1988) and Emma Thompson (as…

Jane Fonda: Warren Beatty gay by association? Warren Beatty: AFI Life Achievement Award with Dyan Cannon & Diane Keaton + Jane Fonda Jane Fonda, Diane Keaton, Dyan Cannon, and Elaine May were some of the Hollywood celebrities who spoke at the 36th AFI Life Achievement…

Sydney Pollack, the director of several critical and box office successes of the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s, died of cancer earlier today in the Los Angeles suburb of Pacific Palisades. He was 73. Pollack began his show business career on the stage and later moved…

Reds with Jack Nicholson, Diane Keaton, and Warren Beatty. Warren Beatty’s Reds, the best of the five 1981 Academy Award nominees for best picture, will be screened as the next feature of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ “Great To Be Nominated” series.…

Frank Sinatra in ‘The Man with the Golden Arm’: Groundbreaking drug addiction drama. Although hardly one of Otto Preminger’s better films, The Man with the Golden Arm is worth a look for two reasons: It’s quite likely the first major Hollywood motion picture – since…

Anne Bancroft, Mrs. Robinson in The Graduate dead at 73 Anne Bancroft, Mrs. Robinson in The Graduate and the longtime wife of Mel Brooks, died of uterine cancer on July 6 at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City. The Oscar-, Emmy-, and Tony Award-winning…

Hilary Swank Oscar triumph: the star of Clint Eastwood’s sentimental boxing melodrama Million Dollar Baby has become the 21st century’s first two-time Best Actress Academy Award winner. Her previous victory, for the gender-identity drama Boys Don’t Cry, took place in early 2000. Hilary Swank Oscar…

Meet the Fockers cast: Barbra Streisand, Dustin Hoffman, Ben Stiller, Robert De Niro, Teri Polo, and Blythe Danner. Multiple award winners Streisand, Hoffman, De Niro, and Danner have lent their names to a fetid Ben Stiller comedy geared to the There’s Something About Mary crowd.…

I Heart Huckabees with Jude Law and Naomi Watts: British-born “all-Americans.” Despite all the on-screen talent – Law, Watts, Isabelle Huppert, Dustin Hoffman, etc. – the truly engrossing goings-on in David O. Russell’s social satire took place behind the scenes. See further below. A brazenly…