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The Villager, May 17, 2012
...Photo by Robin Holland Bruce Goldstein. Bruce Goldstein. BY JERRY TALLMER | Nobody I’ve ever met knows as much about as many movies of all genres as does Bruce Goldstein. Genre. You want genre? Karen Cooper’s dearly beloved genre is The...
The Economist, May 1, 2012
...theme songs—you can hear them playing at their rallies—but today they’re vulgar, nondescript pop songs. How did Preston Sturges influence “Damsels in Distress”? As I was reading in his biography about the bad time he had in Paris I thought, my...
MSN Entertainment, April 25, 2012
...has a number of musical moments, including belting out "Seventy-Six Trombones" in full regalia. This is Linklater's Preston Sturges comedy, an ode to small-town Texas life, where civil society is prized so much as to outweigh a little ol' thing like...
EdgeBoston.com, April 18, 2012
...to imagine that it would all suddenly grind to a halt; that, like one of his fabled predecessors, Preston Sturges, or equally august contemporaries, Woody Allen, Whit Stillman would be forced into exile. Yes, it has been 12 years since The Last Days of...
Fortune, April 12, 2012
...key to Ford's phenomenal resurgence." At first telling, Mulally comes off like a character from a Preston Sturges movie, all "aw shucks" and "gee whiz." But behind the smiles, Hoffman reveals a toughness in Mullaly that surfaces when dissenters threaten...
Gasparilla Gazette, March 27, 2012
...Tracy was the sort of regular American guy one could depend on. Now James Curtis, acclaimed biographer of Preston Sturges ("Definitive" -Variety), James Whale, and W. C. Fields ("By far the fullest, fairest, and most touching account we have yet had. Or...
Home Media Magazine, March 26, 2012
...Tatlock in the pitch-black Miss Tatlock’s Millions, easily my favorite ‘40s comedy not directed by Billy Wilder, Preston Sturges or Chaplin. Rounding out Man’s cast (as the Stanwyck mother-in-law who, of course, really isn’t) is stage...
Examiner.com, March 1, 2012
...Albert Lewin, starring Hurd Hatfield, George Sanders, and Angela Lansbury (full review) “The Lady Eve” (1941) – Dir. Preston Sturges, starring Henry Fonda and Barbara Stanwyck (full review) “Gunga Din” (1939) – Dir. George Stevens, starring...
The Atlantic Wire, February 28, 2012
...somebody will get around to making one with all of Martin Scorsese's tracking shots and the best Preston Sturges pratfalls. (You'll probably want to watch this with headphones, since there's a good deal of swearing and abrupt gunfire.) [ Dailywhat via...
TheDay.com, February 26, 2012
...is lockstep party line. Her effort to experience life in the lower depths is reminiscent of the 1941 Preston Sturges movie "Sullivan's Travels," about a movie director who craves to know what it's like to be a common man. His vision remains comically...
Chicago Daily Herald, February 26, 2012
...Brothers and W.C. Fields. That, in turn, led to the harder stuff: the work of Frank Capra, Preston Sturges and Billy Wilder. Rydstrom had become a film addict. After graduating from York Community High School, Rydstrom went straight to USC's prestigious...
TheDay.com, February 26, 2012
...is lockstep party line. Her effort to experience life in the lower depths is reminiscent of the 1941 Preston Sturges movie "Sullivan's Travels," about a movie director who craves to know what it's like to be a common man. His vision remains comically...
Fast Company, February 24, 2012
...a whole other level.” 1992 The Power and the Glory: “Directed by William K. Howard and written by Preston Sturges, it had a structure that Mankiewicz and Welles used for Citizen Kane.” 1933 Stagecoach: “Welles drew from everywhere. The ceilings...
