Today will be a bear — Park Chan Wook‘s The Handmaiden (145 minutes) at 8:30 am, Steven Spielberg‘s The BFG (I’m torn between wanting desperately to blow this off and submitting for obvious reasons) at 11:45 am, Andrea Arnold‘s American Honey (162 minutes) at 7 pm and Alexis Bloom & Fisher Stevens‘ Bright Lights, a Carrie Fisher-Debbie Reynolds doc, at 10:30 pm. I’m also going to try and catch Pete Hammond‘s American Pavillion interview with Fisher and Stevens at 2:30 pm.
Roughly two months ago a very early draft of Eric Roth‘s screenplay for Killers of the Flower Moon (dated 2.20.17,...
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Frances McDormand‘s Fern was strong but mule-stubborn and at the end of the day self-destructive, and this stunted psychology led...
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Can’t decide which performance is better, although I’ve always leaned toward Tina Vitale, her cynical New Jersey moll behind the...
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Two days ago (1.19) a Facebook tribute congratulated Tippi Hedren for having reached her 94th year (blow out the candles!)...
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A friend suggested a list of the Ten Best American Crime Flicks of the ‘70s. By which he meant films...
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I’ve never been able to give myself over to Sam Peckinpah’s Major Dundee, a 1965 Civil War–era western, and I’ve...
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