“We know that a dream can be real, but whoever thought that reality could be a dream? We exist of course, but how, in what way, as we believe, as flesh and blood human beings, or are we simply parts of someone’s feverish, complicated nightmare? Think about it. And then ask yourself, ‘Do you live here in this country, in this world, or do you live instead in the Twilight Zone?'” — Rod Serling‘s epitaph for Shadow Play, originally aired on The Twilight Zone on 5.5.61.
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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