Joe Versus The Volcano
March 9, 1990 | If, as the poet noted, most men lead lives of quiet desperation, then Joe Banks (Tom Hanks) truly is an exceptional fellow: His desperately unhappy life…
Chameleon Street
January 3, 1992 | Sometimes the magic works, and sometimes it doesn’t. Two years ago this month, Wendell B. Harris Jr. copped the top prize at the Sundance Film Festival…
Kevin Costner on “Field of Dreams”
May 3, 1989 | Kevin Costner was all set to make Revenge, a violent melodrama about illicit love and bloody retribution, when he was asked to read a script…
James Earl Jones on “Field of Dreams”
May 6, 1989 | In Shoeless Joe, the 1982 novel on which Field of Dreams is based, the hero of the piece is Ray Kinsella, an Ohio farmer who heeds…
Field of Dreams
April 21, 1989 | It’s difficult, even more difficult than hitting a high, hard one into the stands at the Astrodome. And yet, somehow, the people who made a wonderful…
Patricia Hitchcock O’Connell on Life with Father: Alfred Hitchcock
March 11, 1993 | There’s at least one brightly charming story in The Dark Side of Genius: The Life of Alfred Hitchcock, Donald Spoto’s controversial 1983 biography of The Master of Suspense,…
Clint Eastwood on “Unforgiven”
August 6, 1992 | Now is the summer of Clint Eastwood’s reassessment. It is the best of times for the 62-year-old superstar, as he greets a seemingly endless series of…
Eyes Wide Shut
July 16, 1999 | Stanley Kubrick knew what you’d be expecting, and maybe even hoping for, when you bought a ticket to see Eyes Wide Shut. And so, during the opening seconds…
Rosanna De Soto on “La Bamba”
July 23, 1987 | La Bamba, a film about the short but eventful life of Mexican-American rock star Ritchie Valens, finds Rosana De Soto cast as Connie Valenzuela, mother of the…
In Another Country
March 2, 2013 | French actress Isabelle Huppert isn’t only the star of In Another Country, she’s also the center of gravity for this playfully wispy yet oddly captivating doodle by…