The legend of Pauline Kael and the cinematic artistry of Quentin Tarantino will not come together in a forthcoming QT film called The Movie Critic. It was a nice Borys Kit speculation while it lasted, but nope.

World of Reel Jordan Ruimy is reporting, in fact, that the main character isn’t even a movie critic. The story is set in 1977. Filming will begin in Los Angeles next fall.

Tarantino clarified things during a special book-promotion appearance on Wednesday, 3.29 at the Grand Rex in Paris.

I’m a little bummed, I admit, but I’ll get over it.

There have been many great opening scenes over the last century or so, but if you’re asking which is the greatest opening shot, I would have to go with two films released in ’79 — Woody Allen‘s Manhattan and Francis Coppola‘s Apocalypse Now.

One of the greatest opening sequences is the Union Station opening of Strangers on a Train (‘51), as the camera follows two men whose faces are unseen and whose shoes are their primary identifying trait…arriving by taxi, strolling into the station, etc.

Six hour-long Amazon Prime episodes of Dead Ringers, based on the 1988 David Cronenberg original and starring Rachel Weisz behind streaming sometime in mid April.

There’s also the actual 35-year-old Cronenberg film, which ran 115 minutes.

Irons played twins named Beverly and Elliot Mantle; Weisz does the same.

I have no thoughts….none whatsoever.

Keith McNally, the hotshot Manhattan resturateur behind Augustine, Balthazar, Cafe Luxembourg, Cherche Midi, Lucky Strike, Minetta Tavern, Nell’s, Odeon, Pastis and Schiller’s Liquor Bar, is a Woody Allen fan from way back. Would it be fair to say that McNally is “in the tank” for the guy? Yeah, I think.

Within the last several hours McNally announced on Instagram that he had “wheedled” his way into am early-bird screening of Woody’s Coup de Chance, which many of us are hoping will show up in Cannes in mid May.

McNally #1: “It’s fucking great!…Allen’s best film since Midnight In Paris.”

McNally #2: “Coup de Chance is a contemporary film about romance, passion, jealousy, infidelity and murder. It stars terrific French actors and actresses, and is sensationally shot by maestro cinematographer Vittorio Storaro.

McNally #3: The film most critics will probably compare Coup de Chance to is Match Point, but the film it most reminds me of is Louis Malle‘s 1958 masterpiece, Elevator To The Gallows. The music especially. It’s a truly wonderful film.”

HE to McNally: A film reminiscent of Elevator to the Gallows suggests a plot that pivots on dark irony and passion-driven perps caught in the cruel grip of karma. In Match Point a lucky guy got away with murder — perhaps not this time.

(Thanks to World of Reel‘s Jordan Ruimy for the tip-off.)