Whoever creates a Bluray of William Friedkin‘s Sorcerer (which for years you weren’t allowed to mention without automatically declaring that Henri-Georges Clouzot‘s The Wages of Fear is a much, much better film) will have to include the Tangerine Dream overture. I heard it the first and only time I saw Sorcerer on a big screen, which was a day or two after it opened on 6.24.77 at the Post Road Cinema in Westport, Connecticut.
To my great surprise and delight, Christy Hall‘s Daddio, which I was remiss in not seeing during last year’s Telluride...
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7:45 pm: Okay, the initial light-hearted section (repartee, wedding, hospital, afterlife Joey Pants, healthy diet) was enjoyable, but Jesus, when...
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It took me a full month to see Wes Ball and Josh Friedman‘s Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes...
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Unless Part Two of Kevin Costner‘s Horizon (Warner Bros., 8.16) somehow improves upon the sluggish initial installment and delivers something...
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For me, A Dangerous Method (2011) is David Cronenberg‘s tastiest and wickedest film — intense, sexually upfront and occasionally arousing...
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