The buzz about Wes Anderson‘s Moonrise Kingdom opening the 65th Cannes Film Festival was confirmed an hour ago. The swells will catch it at the Grand Lumiere on the evening of Wednesday, 5.16. The press will see it earlier that morning. Anderson, Bruce Willis, Bill Murray, Frances McDormand, Tilda Swinton, Jason Schwartzman and the two kids — Kara Hayward and Jared Gilman — all doing the red carpet, etc.
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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