I picked up the Schindler’s List Bluray last night. It seems sadder and more horrific than it did 20 years ago. And it’s sheer black-and-white heaven. Rich, razor-sharp, super-textured. Plus I’d forgotten how tight, well-written and superbly acted it is, especially by Ben Kingsley and Ralph Fiennes. Virtually no trace of the man who made War Horse. And I’d forgotten how young Liam Neeson used to look.
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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