As this trailer proves, the voice that Daniel Day Lewis uses in There Will Be Blood (Paramount Vantage, 12.26) doesn’t resemble his Gangs of New York/ “Bill the Butcher” voice in the least. Anyone who says this has no ear. It’s actually a blend of two voices — the late John Huston‘s and ThinkFilm honcho Mark Urman‘s. Huston + Urman + a little raspiness + a measured, conniving quality.
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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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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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