For those who didn’t watch/listen to the full two-hour discussion between Kevin Spacey and the oddly named Lex Fridman, which I posted yesterday, please at least listen to this portion — a summary of Spacey’s Se7en experience, an explanation of how David Fincher often gets a “less is more” performance, and a story about Jack Lemmon being coached by George Cukor during filming of It Should Happen To You (’54).
7:45 pm: Okay, the initial light-hearted section (repartee, wedding, hospital, afterlife Joey Pants, healthy diet) was enjoyable, but Jesus, when...
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It took me a full month to see Wes Ball and Josh Friedman‘s Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes...
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This morning I finally saw Sean Baker’s Anora, which everyone seems to believe is destined to win the Palme d’Or....
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For me, A Dangerous Method (2011) is David Cronenberg‘s tastiest and wickedest film — intense, sexually upfront and occasionally arousing...
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Posted on 11.27.23: “One thing that’s always bothered me about Virginia Wolff is that George and Martha’s young guests —...
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I prefer Wolfies because it sounds flip and irreverent — a title you can repeat to your friends with a...
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