It’s reasonable to be skeptical about Rules Don’t Apply, Warren Beatty’s first directorial effort in nearly twenty years and his first big screen acting performance in fifteen. While Beatty was never a prolific speed demon as filmmaker, that’s the sort … Continue reading Now Playing: Rules Don’t Apply
#22 — Oliver Platt as Dennis Murphy in Bulworth (Warren Beatty, 1998) Once a film about politics swerves toward satire, there’s a hope and expectation that it will be simultaneously revelatory and prescient, especially if the cinematic endeavor in question comes from one of Hollywood’s more revered figures. The fourth film to formally credit Warren Beatty as director eagerly viewed as precisely that sort of astute, forward-thinking examination of the nation’s ruptured system for identifying worthy public servants. Even at the time of its release, Bulworth seemed to be missing its target, in part because Beatty couldn’t entirely split the … Continue reading Greatish Performances #22
#11 — Reds (Warren Beatty, 1981) Warren Beatty has been credited as the sole director of exactly three films, two of which can be used to demonstrate how admirable ambition can turn into plain mediocrity. And yet, every time Beatty … Continue reading Top Fifty Films of the 80s — Number Eleven
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