Robert Benton

The greatest L.A. movies? We have 140, and shrinking...

2011-12-04 06:00:00

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Hoffman, Field and ‘Kramer’ Win Academy Awards

2010-04-15 16:33:00

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Aussie Charmer

2007-03-04 00:00:00

Jacinda Barrett is 5 feet, 10 inches in her stocking feet. She has a teal-colored tattoo on the inside of her right ankle and her face—girlish and soft on film—is carved and somewhat angular in person. Although her chocolate-brown eyes...

Election: Four seek three seats on village board

2011-02-09 16:34:15

"Biutiful" inicia su campaña en temporada de premios con apoyo de Sean Penn

2010-12-02 00:00:00

Arthur Penn, uno de los directores más influyentes del siglo XX

2010-09-29 00:00:00

Parents of missing Escondido teen frustrated by search

2009-09-13 23:44:00

The family of missing teen Amber DuBois, 14, lashed out Sunday evening at the Escondido Police Department. The family claimed the police aren't doing enough to find Amber and haven't done a good job of following up on leads. Amber's mom Carrie McGonigle...

Movie Review: 'Feast of Love'

2007-09-28 00:00:00

There's something surprisingly right about casting Morgan Freeman as a sad, wise and wistful Shakespearean narrator in "Feast of Love." He never has the chance to play old romantics, though there's often a hint of romance to his best roles, especially...

Feast of Love

2007-09-28 00:00:00

Relationships are created and destroyed by an oblivious artist (Greg Kinnear), lovestruck kids (Toby Hemingway, Alexa Davalos) and a self-involved realtor (Radha Mitchell), while an old college professor (Morgan Freeman) dispenses his advice. Directed, if...

Paul Newman: A Legend Dies At 83

2008-09-28 00:00:00

Paul Newman was a stage actor who became a movie star. A sex symbol who celebrated 50 years of marriage with his second wife. A grieving father who turned to philanthropy after the death of his only son. A citizen activist who campaigned for liberal...

Paul Newman's Top 15 Movies

2008-09-27 00:00:00

Paul Newman may be a beloved movie icon to those of us older than, say, 40. But many of the nation's younger moviegoers may have seen only one Newman movie in their lives: "Cars," in which he provides the voice to the old racer Doc Hudson. They don't...

'Feast of Love'

2007-09-28 00:00:00

Love is a many-splendored thing in Robert Benton's dull romantic fantasy "Feast of Love," though none of its splendors rings true. That's because in the Arcadian, storybook Portland, Ore., in which the movie is set, love is a simple binary system -- it'...

is probably more factually accurate than "Bonnie and Clyde," but it's a lot less emotionally resonant.

2010-01-29 18:51:53

Nobody's Fool (1994) Newman played Sully, a sneaky old scamp, in Robert Benton 's low-key slice of life set in a tiny, boring town in upstate New York . Sully hates his boss and flirts with his boss' wife and deals with his son and battles a banker with plans to upend his life. The unpretentious

2008-08-13 11:24:18

Nobody s Fool One of the tag lines for this movie was Aged to perfection. And at 68, the still-sexy Newman gives a totally engaging turn in this quirky 1994 comedy directed by Robert Benton from the novel by Richard Russo.

2008-05-13 17:18:08