Oscar-winner Robert Duvall has starred in dozens of films spanning a 60+ year career, racking up six additional nominations in the process, but how many of those titles remain classics? Let’s take a look back at 20 of his greatest films, ranked worst to best.
Duvall made his big screen debut with the small but memorable role of Boo Radley in “To Kill a Mockingbird” (1962), released when he was 31-years-old. His first Oscar nomination came just 10 years later: Best Supporting Actor for Francis Ford Coppola‘s mob classic “The Godfather” (1972).
It would take 11 years before Duvall finally clinched that elusive Best Actor Oscar for “Tender Mercies” (1983), a small-scale drama about a drunken country-western singer working towards redemption. He would compete five additional times: lead for “The Great Santini” (1980) and “The Apostle” (1997); supporting for “Apocalypse Now” (1979), “A Civil Action” (1998), and “The Judge” (2014).
Duvall has found success on the small screen as well,...
Duvall made his big screen debut with the small but memorable role of Boo Radley in “To Kill a Mockingbird” (1962), released when he was 31-years-old. His first Oscar nomination came just 10 years later: Best Supporting Actor for Francis Ford Coppola‘s mob classic “The Godfather” (1972).
It would take 11 years before Duvall finally clinched that elusive Best Actor Oscar for “Tender Mercies” (1983), a small-scale drama about a drunken country-western singer working towards redemption. He would compete five additional times: lead for “The Great Santini” (1980) and “The Apostle” (1997); supporting for “Apocalypse Now” (1979), “A Civil Action” (1998), and “The Judge” (2014).
Duvall has found success on the small screen as well,...
- 12/30/2023
- by Zach Laws and Chris Beachum
- Gold Derby
Harper Lee's "To Kill A Mockingbird" is about as quintessentially American as a classic book can get. The 1960 novel, which is still commonly read in schools today, follows young Alabaman girl Scout Finch as she endures the trials and tribulations of her pre-teen years -- and witnesses the grim realities of the Jim Crow-era South. Some aspects of "To Kill A Mockingbird" haven't aged perfectly, but the book remains beloved for good reason. It's funny, sharp, and emotional, full of wisdom and harsh truth, and builds a world that's vividly alive.
That world made the leap from the page to the big screen in 1962, when director Robert Mulligan and playwright Horton Foote adapted "To Kill A Mockingbird" as a film. The movie version is indelible in its own right. It's anchored by a precise performance from Gregory Peck, who plays compassionate defense attorney Atticus Finch. In the 60 years since...
That world made the leap from the page to the big screen in 1962, when director Robert Mulligan and playwright Horton Foote adapted "To Kill A Mockingbird" as a film. The movie version is indelible in its own right. It's anchored by a precise performance from Gregory Peck, who plays compassionate defense attorney Atticus Finch. In the 60 years since...
- 12/26/2023
- by Valerie Ettenhofer
- Slash Film
[Editor’s note: The following article contains spoilers for “The Watcher,” including the ending.]
If one looks at the Ryan Murphy/Netflix collaborations in total, you’d be safe saying the pair haven’t crafted a match made in heaven (massive viewing numbers for “Dahmer” notwithstanding). Which is a shame, as “The Watcher” is probably the best series Murphy’s worked on for the streaming giant. What makes “The Watcher” soar is Murphy going back to what worked for him with the first “American Horror Story”: a haunted house film with a cadre of characters you simultaneously liked yet were irritated by. But at the end of the day it’s still a Murphy show, meaning that for every good thing, like Jennifer Coolidge’s real-estate agent from hell, there’s an element that makes you roll your eyes and sigh in exasperation, like pigtail wearing becoming a major plot point.
Let’s back up: Dean and Nora...
If one looks at the Ryan Murphy/Netflix collaborations in total, you’d be safe saying the pair haven’t crafted a match made in heaven (massive viewing numbers for “Dahmer” notwithstanding). Which is a shame, as “The Watcher” is probably the best series Murphy’s worked on for the streaming giant. What makes “The Watcher” soar is Murphy going back to what worked for him with the first “American Horror Story”: a haunted house film with a cadre of characters you simultaneously liked yet were irritated by. But at the end of the day it’s still a Murphy show, meaning that for every good thing, like Jennifer Coolidge’s real-estate agent from hell, there’s an element that makes you roll your eyes and sigh in exasperation, like pigtail wearing becoming a major plot point.
Let’s back up: Dean and Nora...
- 10/14/2022
- by Kristen Lopez
- Indiewire
This article contains spoilers for The Watcher.
Hot off the success of his Jeffrey Dahmer series Dahmer, Ryan Murphy is back with another Netflix show inspired by a true story. This time, though, there’s a bit of a twist. The Watcher, inspired by the true story of the Broaddus family who bought a very expensive house in Westfield, New Jersey and received a series of threatening letters from someone calling themself “The Watcher”, takes a slightly different approach to true crime. It’s a weird story. And it’s never been solved, though there are many theories kicking around. The show’s approach is to allow various theories to play out, leaving you with a story that, at first glance, seems quite outlandish but with a bit of further digging is often peripherally true, could have been true, or was inspired by something that really happened.
Let’s break it all down.
Hot off the success of his Jeffrey Dahmer series Dahmer, Ryan Murphy is back with another Netflix show inspired by a true story. This time, though, there’s a bit of a twist. The Watcher, inspired by the true story of the Broaddus family who bought a very expensive house in Westfield, New Jersey and received a series of threatening letters from someone calling themself “The Watcher”, takes a slightly different approach to true crime. It’s a weird story. And it’s never been solved, though there are many theories kicking around. The show’s approach is to allow various theories to play out, leaving you with a story that, at first glance, seems quite outlandish but with a bit of further digging is often peripherally true, could have been true, or was inspired by something that really happened.
Let’s break it all down.
- 10/14/2022
- by Alec Bojalad
- Den of Geek
Robert Duvall is not a method actor. Though he has played a wide variety of characters, from the hauntingly silent Boo Radley at the heart-rending end of "To Kill a Mockingbird" to the surfing-crazed Colonel Kilgore in "Apocalypse Now," his method is anti-method. "You talk, you listen," he once said. Nevertheless, when playing the abrasive television executive Frank Hackett in Sidney Lumet's "Network," Duvall got a little carried away.
In Duvall's defense, Hackett is a despicable character. He gleefully weaponizes the fiery sermons of once-staid network news anchorman Howard Beale (Peter Finch), and, at the end of the movie, has him...
The post Robert Duvall Went 'Over the Top' When Getting Into Character For 1976's Network appeared first on /Film.
In Duvall's defense, Hackett is a despicable character. He gleefully weaponizes the fiery sermons of once-staid network news anchorman Howard Beale (Peter Finch), and, at the end of the movie, has him...
The post Robert Duvall Went 'Over the Top' When Getting Into Character For 1976's Network appeared first on /Film.
- 8/11/2022
- by Jeremy Smith
- Slash Film
Over the past few years, Liz Hannah has worked very hard — so much so that her two series are Emmy contenders this year. She co-created Hulu’s “The Girl From Plainville” and served as executive producer on “The Dropout.”
“We moved here in January 2021, after being in a house where my husband [Brian Millikin] and I shared an office during the first year of the pandemic while I was running the room for ‘Plainville’ and he was developing two shows,” she says. “The small space was not really copacetic so now we each have our own office. There’s a door!”
While she writes, Hannah gets distracted if music or a television is playing.
“It leads to daydreaming, which leads to more procrastination. So, I tend to write in quiet but when I’m developing or thinking about what I’m going to do, I do a lot of pacing and my husband,...
“We moved here in January 2021, after being in a house where my husband [Brian Millikin] and I shared an office during the first year of the pandemic while I was running the room for ‘Plainville’ and he was developing two shows,” she says. “The small space was not really copacetic so now we each have our own office. There’s a door!”
While she writes, Hannah gets distracted if music or a television is playing.
“It leads to daydreaming, which leads to more procrastination. So, I tend to write in quiet but when I’m developing or thinking about what I’m going to do, I do a lot of pacing and my husband,...
- 6/16/2022
- by Emily Longeretta
- Variety Film + TV
The Collector
Blu ray – All Region
Indicator/Powerhouse
1965/ 1.85:1 / Street Date September 24, 2018
Starring Terence Stamp, Samantha Eggar
Cinematography by Robert Surtees, Robert Krasker
Directed by William Wyler
German-born William Wyler was a storyteller who asked the audience not to understand him too quickly. A notorious perfectionist, he was a masterful old-school director of enduring entertainments distinguished by thoughtfulness and, a rare trait for the times, ambiguity.
At their best, Wyler’s films were acutely observed slices of American life, particularly concerning its ongoing civil wars – Davis treading on Southern decorum in Jezebel, Dana Andrew’s bitter post-war abasement in The Best Years of Our Lives and the deal-breaking social gulf between the would-be lovers of Roman Holiday. In The Collector, those class conflicts get the horror movie treatment.
Frederick Clegg, the gaunt loner lurking at the edges of Wyler’s psycho-thriller, is the very model of the modern Incel. Emotionally...
Blu ray – All Region
Indicator/Powerhouse
1965/ 1.85:1 / Street Date September 24, 2018
Starring Terence Stamp, Samantha Eggar
Cinematography by Robert Surtees, Robert Krasker
Directed by William Wyler
German-born William Wyler was a storyteller who asked the audience not to understand him too quickly. A notorious perfectionist, he was a masterful old-school director of enduring entertainments distinguished by thoughtfulness and, a rare trait for the times, ambiguity.
At their best, Wyler’s films were acutely observed slices of American life, particularly concerning its ongoing civil wars – Davis treading on Southern decorum in Jezebel, Dana Andrew’s bitter post-war abasement in The Best Years of Our Lives and the deal-breaking social gulf between the would-be lovers of Roman Holiday. In The Collector, those class conflicts get the horror movie treatment.
Frederick Clegg, the gaunt loner lurking at the edges of Wyler’s psycho-thriller, is the very model of the modern Incel. Emotionally...
- 9/30/2018
- by Charlie Largent
- Trailers from Hell
Margot Robbie may be preparing for her latest role in Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, but she always has time for her husband.
The couple, who wed in December 2016, was spotted enjoying some time together in Los Angeles with their dog, Boo Radley, on Sunday. Robbie, 27, was low-key in a black dress, sun hat and sunglasses while Ackerley, 28, was dressed in a white T-shirt and patterned board shorts.
Robbie and Ackerley, who met in 2013, were introduced on the set of Suite Francaise, where Ackerley was working as an assistant director.
The pair, who co-produced the Oscar-winning film I,...
The couple, who wed in December 2016, was spotted enjoying some time together in Los Angeles with their dog, Boo Radley, on Sunday. Robbie, 27, was low-key in a black dress, sun hat and sunglasses while Ackerley, 28, was dressed in a white T-shirt and patterned board shorts.
Robbie and Ackerley, who met in 2013, were introduced on the set of Suite Francaise, where Ackerley was working as an assistant director.
The pair, who co-produced the Oscar-winning film I,...
- 6/25/2018
- by Karen Mizoguchi
- PEOPLE.com
Tales as old as time, Slashers are. Okay, maybe not as old as time, but certainly as old as me, which is close enough. To say the horror market was saturated by the mid ‘80s would be an understatement; every theatre, drive-in, and video store shelf was oozing content involving implements, pretty people, and the dark secret that comes back to haunt them. Speaking of dark secrets that never fail to return, always faddish 3D made a surprising early ‘80s comeback; franchises such as The Amityville Horror, Jaws, and Friday the 13th all threw blurry stuff at blurry screens in the hopes of enticing viewers with varying degrees of success. Converging at the tail end of both, Silent Madness (1984) crams in so much absurdly wonderful plot you’d think the filmmakers were afraid Hollywood was going to stop making movies altogether.
Distributed by Almi Pictures in late October, Silent Madness...
Distributed by Almi Pictures in late October, Silent Madness...
- 6/9/2018
- by Scott Drebit
- DailyDead
Aaron Sorkin is creating a new adaptation of “To Kill a Mockingbird,” which is set to premiere on Broadway this fall. The production is currently casting equity actors for all roles. “To Kill a Mockingbird,” the classic novel by Harper Lee, was adapted into an equally classic Hollywood vehicle for Gregory Peck. Set in a small, fictional town in Alabama during the Depression, the story follows lawyer Atticus Finch and his family. As Finch defends Tom Robinson, an African American man falsely accused of rape, to a jury made entirely of white southern men, his children Scout and Jem are haunted by the spectral presence of neighborhood shut-in Boo Radley. Atticus Finch is a role for caucasian male talent, aged 40–59. He projects a sense of wisdom and strength in moral character. Tom Robinson is a role for African American male talent, aged 20–29. Tom is an ethical and serious field hand.
- 6/1/2018
- backstage.com
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