John Flynn‘s The Outfit, which screened last night at Manhattan’s Anthology Film Archives, played well to a full house. It’s the best kind of ’70s relic — a modest and unpretentious character piece that happens to be about guns, crime and payback. But the AFA’s projection was godawful. The projection lamp was so dim that half the images, which Flynn composed with low light and indoor shadows, were pure murk.
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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