There are a few actors whose presence in a movie causes critics' faces to light up with enthusiasm. Gene Hackman was one such actor. The Hollywood legend appeared in over 80 movies. Out of these, only ...

With a career that spanned five decades and saw him feature in such timeless classics as The French Connection, The Conversation, and Mississippi Burning, the late great Gene Hackman is nothing short ...

The Royal Tenenbaums isn’t director Wes Andersen’s best movie but it’s certainly his most watchable, possibly because Hackman forced him to make it that way. It was his third-to-last movie appearance ...

On the Mount Rushmore of great American actors — specifically those who emerged in the late 1960s and brought a transformative, bone-deep intensity to their craft over the industry-redefining decade ...

As part of a piece on Slashfilm, the original rights holder of Thomas Harris’ novel, The Silence of the Lambs, had trouble getting the project off the ground. Bob Bookman cited the poor box office of ...

The American actor Gene Hackman and his wife of 34 years, Betsy Arakawa, die under circumstances that would have beggared the imaginations of William Faulkner and Michael Haneke, and the best Film at ...

Gene Hackman’s death has led many to look back on his remarkable career and at many of his best performances. Among those great performances is his work as Royal Tenenbaum in Wes Anderson’s The Royal ...

NEW MEXICO (KRQE) – Later this month, you can take home personal artworks, annotated books, a Golden Globe, or even an Academy Award that once belonged to American cinema legend Gene Hackman. “It’s ...

The Birdcage is a ‘90s comedy starring Nathan Lane and Robin Williams as a gay couple in Miami who pretend to be straight to deceive a conservative senator in order to help their son who is trying to ...