Printing the Legend: Altman's New Hollywood Westerns
by Ryan Silberstein, Managing Editor, Website, Red Herring
One of New Hollywood’s key figures, Robert Altman offered two takes on the western in the 1970s.
Printing the Legend: Butch, Sundance, and Belle Starr
by Ryan Silberstein, Managing Editor, Red Herring
Welcome back to year two of Printing the Legend, where I journey far and wide across the western genre in search of the horizon.
SUMMER OF STARS #5: Paul Newman
by Fiona Underhill, Contributor
Newman on Heat – The Long, Hot Summer (Ritt, 1958) and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Brooks, 1958)
The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds
Directed by Paul Newman (1972)
by Shane Collis
"I'm the original half-life, I got one daughter with half a mind, the other whose half a test tube, a house half-full of rabbit crap and half a corpse! That's a half-life alright." - Beatrice Hunsdorfer
Paul Newman is arguably the most famous actor of his generation, with celebrated roles in such films as The Hustler, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Cool Hand Luke, and The Sting among many others. But sadly his work as a director is seldom discussed outside the most ardent cineaste circles.
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