The Toronto Film Festival foreign-film selections that are popping out at first glance: Ang Lee‘s Lust, Caution, Ken Loach‘s It’s a Free World, Francois Ozon‘s Angel, Hans Weingartner‘s Reclaim Your Brain, Amos Gitai’s Desengagement, Hector Babenco‘s The Past, Nick Broomfield‘s Battle for Haditha, Sarah Gavron‘s Brick Lane, Etgar Keret and Shira Geffen‘s Jellyfish (the Camera d’Or winner at Cannes) and and Frank Whaley‘s New York City Serenade.
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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