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6 Reasons Why This ’90s Joel Schumacher Batman Movie is Actually the Most Underrated Film in the Franchise
Joel Schumacher's Batman Forever is the most underrated entry in the franchise thanks to excellent production design and Val ...
St. Elmo's Fire Totally Warped Young Me’s World View, but I’m Still Not Mad About It
St. Elmo's Fire shaped my ideas of life and friendship after college, but although those ideas turned out to be wrong, I ...
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Joel Schumacher, Director of ‘St. Elmo’s Fire,’ Is Dead at 80
By Dave Itzkoff Joel Schumacher, the director whose visually inventive and sometimes subversive movies — including the coming-of-age drama “St. Elmo’s Fire,” the vampire action-comedy ...
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Joel Schumacher, director of Batman films, dies at 80
Joel Schumacher, costume designer-turned-director of films including “St. Elmo’s Fire,” “The Lost Boys” and “Falling Down,” as well as “Batman” films, died in New York City on ...
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Emilio Estevez blasts ‘St. Elmo’s Fire’ director Joel Schumacher as a ‘nightmare’ and ‘bully’: He ‘was wildly insecure’
Emilio Estevez has opened up about the “nightmare” experience he had working with director Joel Schumacher on the beloved 1980s movie “St. Elmo’s Fire.” The “Mighty Ducks” star ...
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Don’t Forget That Joel Schumacher Briefly Saved Batman
Schumacher’s flash and style may well have rescued the franchise. (And then, two years later, nearly sank it.) By Jason Bailey When news broke on Monday of the director Joel Schumacher’s death ...
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Joel Schumacher Was A Tireless Worker, As Well As A Tireless Pursuer of Pleasure
Joel Schumacher died today at age 80, of cancer. In the motion picture biz, he was lots of things: a writer, a costume designer, and a director. His movies as director — which ranged from 1990s ...
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Jeremy Garelick on Joel Schumacher: “His Movies Were All His Home Videos”
Joel Schumacher— the prolific director behind St. Elmo's Fire, Flatliners and two Batman films— passed away in New York City after a battle with cancer. He was 80.
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The Lost Boys: Joel Schumacher On Making The Coolest Vampire Movie Of All Time
“Warner Bros. took a big chance with this movie, and with me, because they really didn’t know what the heck I was doing,” chuckles a now 80-year-old Joel Schumacher, by his fireplace at home ...
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Joel Schumacher, director of ‘St. Elmo’s Fire’ and ‘Falling Down,’ dies at 80
Joel Schumacher, a journeyman director who shepherded a new generation of young stars to the big screen in “St. Elmo’s Fire” and steered the Batman franchise into its most baroque territory ...
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Joel Schumacher, director of Batman movies and ‘St. Elmo’s Fire,’ dead at 80
Joel Schumacher, an eclectic director whose career ranged from a pair of divisive Batman movies to “St. Elmo’s Fire,” died Monday after a year-long battle with cancer, a representative for ...
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Joel Schumacher, director of “St. Elmo’s Fire” and “Batman Forever,” dies at 80
NEW YORK — Joel Schumacher, the eclectic and brazen filmmaker who dressed New York department store windows before shepherding the Brat Pack to the big screen in “St. Elmo’s Fire” and ...