Left In Aboite (Free subscription) | 31/10/2009
Actually, I'm a tad bit late for this obituary - approximately 27 and 1/2 years late! I subscribe to an email list for WATN (Where Are They Now) that looks in on celebs from the past, reports on their life, and what they're doing now. One of the features in that report is called "Dead or Alive", which tells you a celeb name as well as a famous role of theirs, and asks you to guess if they...
The Phil Nugent Experience (Free subscription) | 27/10/2009
For no reason I can articulate that would be flattering to myself as a person, I seem to get real excited whenever Turner Classic Movies finds something to show from the seventies that I've never even heard of, let alone seen before. This last happened almost six months ago with Robert Mulligan's The Pursuit of Happiness , and last night it happened again with Chandler (1971)) , a rare starring vehicle...
Travel (Free subscription) | 25/10/2009
By Debra F Nelson Disappeared are the days when you had to linger in line at a video store and trust that the film that you desired was in. Finished are the days of worrying about getting the motion picture back to the store on time to dodge late fees. Right now you can get unabridged, first-class movies at a portion of the charge you used to pay and you can even do it right in the retreat and coziness...
Brit Lit Blogs (Free subscription) | 18/09/2009
This autumn (or fall, possibly), the Barbican will be running ‘Stranger In Town…’, a cine-literary season of American films featuring the compelling figure of the ’stranger in town’, devised and curated by Jay Clifton ( Lipstick Killers: The New York Dolls Story ). Highlights include the Barry Gifford-themed evening on October 3, followed by the Warren Oates night on...
/Film (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
Variety is reporting that the Coen Brothers' will be reteaming with Big Lebowski star Jeff Bridges (aka The Dude) for a big screen adaptation of True Grit. Bridges will play Reuben 'Rooster' Cogburn, the role made famous iconic by John Wayne in the prior big screen adaptation (and later played by Warren Oates in the TV version). Here's the official synopsis from the novel's publishers. Fourteen-year-old...
Best Movies 2008 (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
Variety is reporting that the Coen Brothers' will be reteaming with Big Lebowski star Jeff Bridges (aka The Dude) for a big screen adaptation of True Grit. Bridges will play Reuben 'Rooster' Cogburn, the role made famous iconic by John Wayne in the prior big screen adaptation (and later played by Warren Oates in the TV version). Here's the official synopsis from the novel's publishers. Fourteen-year-old...
Reason Magazine - Hit & Run (Free subscription) | 19/08/2009
Bill Kauffman has written a nice tribute to Warren Oates, the Kentucky-born actor and self-proclaimed "constitutional anarchist." Kauffman doesn't have anything to say about Oates' least anarchist performance -- a comic turn as the drill sergeant in Stripes -- but he nails the series of restless roles Oates played in the '60s and '70s. "Warren Oates had roots and he had the wanderlust,"...
/Film (Free subscription) | 19/08/2009
Neil LaBute will re-team with his Death at a Funeral producer William Horberg to direct an adaptation of Charles Willeford's art world crime novel The Burnt Orange Heresy, according to Variety. This isn't the first time Willeford's work has made it to the screen; he scripted Cockfighter (Monte Hellman! Warren Oates!) from his own novel, and Horberg previously produced an adaptation of Willeford's Miami...
softspoken (Free subscription) | 08/08/2009
more warren oates. and a 70's rv. and satanists. and peter fonda. and hot lips houlihan, too. trailer:
softspoken (Free subscription) | 08/08/2009
the other night we watched cockfighter because i'm determined to see every movie warren oates was ever in, no matter what, you see.
Popcorn and Sticky Floors (Free subscription) | 06/07/2009
To easily one of my all-time favourite screen actors, Warren Oates, who would have been an enigmatic 81 today had he lived longer than 53+ years. I had no idea that it was today but I did order this biography (and I'm very excited about it!) from my local bookstore this past Thursday and I was just sorts priming myself up by reading a bit about it and him here now when I came across the fact so I thought...
Seattle Times (Free subscription) | 02/07/2009
Earlier cinematic treatments of the story of John Dillinger star Lawrence Tierney (1945) and Warren Oates (1973) — both titled "Dillinger."
WFMU's Beware of the Blog (Free subscription) | 01/07/2009
Writer Susan Compo recently authored a tremendous Warren Oates biography and Oates fans who have not yet read the book can look forward to it with tremendous anticipation. For my money, Warren Oates: A Wild Life, is the finest biography...
The Rap Sheet (Free subscription) | 26/06/2009
• My, how time flies. Johnny Depp’s new movie, Public Enemies, in which he plays notorious Depression-era bank robber John Diillinger, will debut next week. Now, I’ll always look back most fondly at Warren Oates’ portrayal of the same real-life character in Dillinger (1973), which found Ben Johnson playing FBI agent Melvin Purvis; but Depp sure looks good with that machine gun...
"Let's Not Talk About Movies" (Free subscription) | 16/06/2009
" Major Dundee " ( Sam Peckinpah , 1965) Semi-restored version of " Major Dundee " that's a bit closer to the idea Sam Peckinpah had in mind when producer Jerry Bresler took the film over, edited it with a meat cleaver and threw on a wildly inappropriate score (a ranch massacre with bodies littering the desert and the main house on fire until it collapses is set to a bouncy Mitch...
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