Day: June 28, 2022

“Disappointment Blvd.” Has Been Bumped Into ’23

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If A24 was smart, they would screen Ari Aster‘s four-hour version of Disappointment Blvd. at Venice and Telluride two months hence, and then release two versions a few weeks later — i.e., the shorter version that A24 management allegedly prefers plus the four-hour cut. They could release the shorter version theatrically while releasing the longer version via streaming. Or vice versa or any which way. It would become a huge thing to see both and debate the differences.

Jack Cardiff’s “Young Cassidy”

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Today Cassidy Hutchinson became the new John Dean, and in so doing carved her name and testimony into the marble stone of history.

Today’s testimony from 26-year-old Hutchinson, who is either a young Millennial or an elderly Zoomer, is obviously fatal to Donald Trump. Cassidy has testified that Trump knew there was a clear potential for violence at the Capitol on January 6th, meaning that Trump knew that several in the crowd were planning to go armed to the Capitol. And that Trump lost it when he was told by the Secret Service he couldn’t go to the Capitol…grabbed the steering wheel, “I’m the fucking President!”, etc.

Who hasn’t known for years that Trump — pre-, during- and post-Presidency — has always been a deranged, intemperate, sociopathic ass-clown?

Woody’s Upcoming Paris Flick May Be His Last

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Seven days ago Jordan Ruimy reported that Woody Allen “is close to shooting his next film in Paris, possibly in October. It’s said to be a darker drama in the same vein as Match Point [with a] French- and English-speaking cast. There are no additional plot details, or a title for that matter.

“This would be Allen’s 50th film as a director” — and possibly his last, according to what the 86-year-old Allen told Alec Baldwin earlier today — “so you know that he’ll want to knock it out of the park.”

Two hours ago Deadline reported similar news — shooting in Paris in the late summer or early fall — after listening to the Baldwin-Allen interview. But without any mention of the forthcoming film having any alleged Match Point-like similarities.

No discussions of the notorious Dylan Farrow incident that allegedly occured in August 1992, and no mention of HBO’s Allen vs. Farrow doc that explored that incident, and no mentions of Baldwin’s horrible Rust incident that resulted in the accidental death of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins.

The Man Who Moose-Knuckled Liberty Valance

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One of the most familiar and widely commented upon John Wayne photos to ever hit the internet. I don’t why I’m posting this, and I don’t even know what the above headline means. But it came to me a couple of minutes ago and it sounded good so I went with it.