Review: 10
[Originally published in Movietone News 64-65, March 1980] Blake Edwards’s new film is really the oldest story in the world, done up with refreshing wit and literacy and the slightest touch of...
View ArticleBlake Edwards (1922-2010)
Blake Edwards died Dec. 15. This cine-bio entry, written in 1996 for an abortive project, has not been updated or revised. -RTJ One of Hollywood’s longest-running hyphenates – writer-producer-director...
View ArticleA Community of Two: Blake Edwards’s ‘The Tamarind Seed’
[Originally published in Movietone News 35, September 1974] Ah, love, let us be true To one another! for the world… Hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light, Nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for...
View ArticleBlake Edwards And The Hobgoblin Of Inconsistency
The death of Blake Edwards at the end of 2010, more than fifteen years after his last film work, was a reminder of a gaudy and maddening career which had been in a state of collapse for over a decade...
View ArticleVideophiled Classic: Blake Edwards’‘The Party’ on Blu-ray
The Party (Kino Lorber, Blu-ray, DVD) reunited Blake Edwards and Peter Sellers after a falling out during the second Pink Panther movie for a difference kind of comedy: a modern sound version of a...
View ArticleReview: The Return of the Pink Panther
[Originally published in Movietone News 42, July 1975] MGM whacks some of the most splendid moments out of The Wild Rovers, your lovely first Western ever, then has at The Carey Treatment so badly with...
View ArticleBlu-ray: ‘Out of the Past,’‘Possessed,” and other Warner Archive releases
With sales of movies on disc falling with the rise of streaming video and digital movies, many studios have licensed their catalogs of classic movies to other labels. But not Warner Brothers. They...
View ArticleReview: 10
[Originally published in Movietone News 64-65, March 1980] Blake Edwardsâ€s new film is really the oldest story in the world, done up with refreshing wit and literacy and the slightest touch of...
View ArticleBlake Edwards (1922-2010)
Blake Edwards Blake Edwards died Dec. 15. This cine-bio entry, written in 1996 for an abortive project, has not been updated or revised. -RTJ One of Hollywood’s longest-running hyphenates –...
View ArticleA Community of Two: Blake Edwards’s ‘The Tamarind Seed’
[Originally published in Movietone News 35, September 1974] Ah, love, let us be true To one another! for the world… Hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light, Nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for...
View ArticleBlake Edwards And The Hobgoblin Of Inconsistency
The death of Blake Edwards at the end of 2010, more than fifteen years after his last film work, was a reminder of a gaudy and maddening career which had been in a state of collapse for over a decade...
View ArticleVideophiled Classic: Blake Edwards’‘The Party’ on Blu-ray
The Party (Kino Lorber, Blu-ray, DVD) reunited Blake Edwards and Peter Sellers after a falling out during the second Pink Panther movie for a difference kind of comedy: a modern sound version of a...
View ArticleReview: The Return of the Pink Panther
[Originally published in Movietone News 42, July 1975] MGM whacks some of the most splendid moments out of The Wild Rovers, your lovely first Western ever, then has at The Carey Treatment so badly with...
View ArticleBlu-ray: ‘Out of the Past,’‘Possessed,” and other Warner Archive releases
With sales of movies on disc falling with the rise of streaming video and digital movies, many studios have licensed their catalogs of classic movies to other labels. But not Warner Brothers. They...
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