Word: hackman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...yessir that lonesome American cowboy Popeye is some fella. William Friedkin is not an untalented director by any means, nor is this really a bad movie, but it opened the door to so many repulsive ones that their grimy taste seems to merge with this in the memory. Gene Hackman's work here, like so much of the rest of it, is very good acting despite the fact that it seems like no acting...
...Director Peter Bogdanovich. "I think we bombed in there," fretted Burt Reynolds after 500 guests of 20th Century-Fox had left a pre-supper screening of the musical in which he stars with Bogdanovich's live-in true love, Cybill Shepherd. The Hollywood elite, including Liza Minnelli, Gene Hackman, Gregory Peck, Roy Rogers, Merle Oberon and Valerie Perrine, adjourned for veal and ambrosiana amid the opulent sets used in the film. Shepherd, perhaps sensing the dour mood of the crowd, made good her getaway. "I've got another party to go to," she announced as the first dinner...
Frankenstein's monster is Peter Boyle (Joe), an actor wonderfully deft at being clumsy. The movie galvanizes just about the time of his appearance. Boyle shows up in, and helps make work, the two sharpest scenes: an encounter with a blind hermit (Gene Hackman, doing a dexterous comic cameo), in which the monster is assaulted by the hermit's well-intentioned blundering; and a brief foray into show biz, in which Frankenstein and his creation put on a fractured vaudeville. Brooks is always at his best making fun of the delicious stupidities of popular entertainment (recall Springtime...
...CONVERSATION. Francis Coppola's remarkable and moving study of an electronic surveillance expert (wonderfully acted by Gene Hackman) and his inadvertent, frightening implication in a crime. The movie also concerns rituals of ruptured privacy, and has a prevailing urgency which moves it past mere topicality...
Bonnie and Clyde (1967). Faye Dunaway and Warren Beatty star as the famous outlaws. A solid movie, a bit long on violence. Estelle Parsons and Gene Hackman are excellent in supporting roles. Ch. 7, 9 p.m. Color, 2hrs...