Thank God the winter doldrums are over. April has less than three weeks to go and then wham…May 1st, the acceleration into the Cannes Film Festival (which starts on May 14th), the beginning of the summer season and a new cavalcade of idiot movies that will drive everyone nuts by July. When are we going to hear something definitive about the Cannes lineup? By 4.25 or thereabouts?
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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