Movies
The director, who worked with Sidney Poitier on ‘Sneakers,’ shares memories of the Hollywood legend.
Jan. 7, 2022
Robinson has directed only three features since 1989’s ‘Field of Dreams,’ but he knew ‘Angriest Man in Brooklyn’ would be his fourth.
May 22, 2014
Talking screenplay credits: Is Phil Alden Robinson--writer-director of the weepy, uplifting “Field of Dreams”--embarrassed by his script for “Relentless”?
Sept. 10, 1989
“Hey … Dad? You wanna have a catch?”
June 15, 2016
Robin Williams is given 90 minutes to live in “The Angriest Man in Brooklyn.”
It may be fortunate for society that Walter Parkes, Larry Lasker and Phil Alden Robinson have focused their talents on Hollywood rather than the world of organized (or disorganized) crime.
Sept. 15, 1992
Entertainment & Arts
Writer-director Phil Alden Robinson (“Field of Dreams”) will present footage taken during the siege of Sarajevo at the Los Angeles Public Library’s Central Library on Tuesday at 7 p.m. in the Mark Taper Auditorium.
June 10, 1994
The Directors Guild of America announced its nominees for 1989 directorial achievement today, displaying a preference for popular movies instead of the artistic ones.
Jan. 30, 1990
A confident 1992 caper movie with a pleasant sense of humor, this film goes about its business in such a good-spirited way that it manages to make its familiar “Mission: Impossible” plot seem new.
May 15, 1994
With the 1987 In the Mood (KCOP Thursday at 8 p.m., again Saturday at noon) writer-director Phil Alden Robinson, whose next film was “Field of Dreams,” made an amusing and lively movie about a local legend, Sonny Wisecarver (Patrick Dempsey), who as a 14-year-old Willowbrook youth eloped with a 21-year-old mother of two (Talia Balsam) a month before D-day.
June 2, 1991