This slipped out earlier today (or was it last night?), but the Cannes Film Festival guys are announcing that (a) Un Certain Regard’s jury president is director Thomas Vinterberg (The Celebration, The Hunt) and (b) that Sofia Coppola‘s The Bling Ring will open Un Certain Regard on Thursday, May 16th. Pic costars Emma Watson, Taïssa Farmiga, Leslie Mann and Kirsten Dunst.
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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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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