Top10Films: Dustin Hoffman

Ratso’s hang-ups, Sumner’s ordeal, Braddock’s sexual desire: The Life and Characters of Dustin Hoffman

Everyone who interviews Dustin Hoffman leaves with the same thoughts on the man: warm, intelligent, and accommodating. His small physical stature – there’s only 5ft 6in of the man – is dismissed by a presence that fills the room. He is a [...]

February 20th, 2010 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , | Category: Genre - Comedy, Genre - Drama, People - Actors, Time Period - 1960 to 1979, Time Period - 1980s to Present | 5 comments

Top 10 Modern Vampire Films

The vampire: that harbinger of everlasting life and eternal damnation. From the cloaked gothic majesty of Bram Stoker’s “Dracula” to the down and dirty night-crawlers of Kathryn Bigelow’s “Near Dark”, vampire’s have formed the basis for more literary and cinematic horror than any other fictional creature.

Early cinematic incarnations of the blood-sucking sun-haters were based [...]

February 3rd, 2010 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Category: Featured, Genre - Action-Adventure, Genre - Comedy, Genre - Drama, Genre - Gangster, Genre - Horror, Genre - Western, Time Period - 1960 to 1979, Time Period - 1980s to Present | 8 comments

Top 10 Robert Zemeckis Films

“Are you telling me you built a time machine out of a DeLorean”: The Magic of Robert Zemeckis

Robert Zemeckis was once asked if television was a bad influence on children. He answered, emphatically, “television isn’t an education, but I see no reason to turn it off.” What would so many television-starved children give for Zemeckis [...]

January 16th, 2010 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , | Category: Genre - Action-Adventure, Genre - Comedy, Genre - Drama, Genre - Horror, Genre - Romance, Genre - Science-Fiction, Genre - Western, People - Directors, Time Period - 1960 to 1979, Time Period - 1980s to Present | 3 comments

Review: All The President's Men (Pakula, 1976)

Part of the Top10Films: Dustin Hoffman feature

Dir. Alan J. Pakula; screenplay by William Goldman; starring Dustin Hoffman, Robert Redford, Jack Warden, Martin Balsam, Jason Robards, Ned Beatty

My first cinematic introduction to the Watergate saga arrived in the form a simpleton named Forrest Gump phoning the police after seeing some people burglarising the building across from [...]

January 14th, 2010 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , | Category: Genre - Drama, Reviews, Time Period - 1960 to 1979 | Leave a comment

Review: Straw Dogs (Peckinpah, 1971)

Part of our “Top10Films: Dustin Hoffman” feature

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Dir. Sam Peckinpah; written by Sam Peckinpah, David Zelag Goodman; starring Dustin Hoffman, Susan George, Jim Norton, Ken Hutchison, Donald Webster, Del Henney, David Warner

“I don’t know my way home,” says simpleton Henry Niles to a dishevelled David Sumner (Dustin Hoffman) at the [...]

January 5th, 2010 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Category: Reviews, Time Period - 1960 to 1979 | One comment
 
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