Manic but well-disciplined editing plus a fascinating paranoid-whisper soundtrack delivers the effect of being inside Donald Trump‘s mind on a bad day. It reminds me of the brilliant editing in Oliver Stone‘s JFK. HE commenter Jeff Tompkins: “Agreed. A brilliant exercise in Psyops using his phobias against him. Biden’s strategy of letting Trump kill himself while hiding some of his own weaknesses would also be brilliant, if it was actually planned.”
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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