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Sharp portrait of a death in '50s L.A. inspires a hooray for 'Hollywoodland': 'HOLLYWOODLAND' (star)(star)(star)1/2.(Movie review)
Byline: Michael Phillips
Sep. 8--Like George Reeves, the tall, dark, handsome and frustrated actor who played Superman on early television and on screen in "Superman and the Mole-Men," the new film "Hollywoodland" may have a hard time establishing itself in the marketplace. Directed by Allen Coulter, a TV alum ("Sex and the City," "The Sopranos") making an impressive feature film debut, the picture doesn't whip up the usual blather or pathos. It's better than that. It unfolds in a confidential key, and it's very observant in the ways the omnipresent film industry seeps into everyone's pores in L.A., land of the rising smog and the perfumed scent of highly compensated failure. With so much studio-bankrolled fear and loathing, plus just enough outrageous success to make the place seem glamorous, Hollywood--Old Hollywood, when people had manners--couldn't help but go crazy and start shooting once in a while. "Hollywoodland" treats its subjects, including Reeves and his much-debated death at age 45, not as larger-than-life or pathetically smaller-than-life, but simply life-sized. ...
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...Gary Thompson Sep. 8--'HOLLYWOODLAND" had me wishing for the improbable...poignancy to his role in "Hollywoodland" as George Reeves -- a washed-up, pretty...obscurity to play Superman. For Reeves, the success was mostly financial...
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[HOLLYWOODLAND] Before Brandon Routh, before Christopher Reeve, even before color...television, there was George Reeves, who played the proto...exciting a word--in Hollywoodland, starring Ben Affleck as Reeves and Adrien Brody as...
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- News wire article from: The America's Intelligence Wire September 8, 2006 700+ words
...duplicitous environment, Hollywoodland builds its film...moments of George Reeves (Ben Affleck...on the night of Reeves' death. Hollywoodland grabs hold of the...which he mimics Reeves well. If Hollywoodland falls short on...
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- News wire article from: The America's Intelligence Wire September 15, 2006 700+ words
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...compelling new film "Hollywoodland" fosters such...death of George Reeves, the "Superman...opinions, but "Hollywoodland" is definitely...step. Affleck's Reeves appears in flashbacks...delivers strongly as Reeves' mother, who...maternal grief. "Hollywoodland" is filled with...
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- News wire article from: The America's Intelligence Wire September 11, 2006 700+ words
...suicide. George Reeves, (not to be...Christopher Reeve, star of the...Coulter's "Hollywoodland," a film...Ben Affleck as Reeves, Adrien Brody...falls flat. "Hollywoodland" opens with the crime scene at Reeves' Hollywood...
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