Column-filings and tweets from the Cannes Film Festival attendees have been thinning out over the last 12 hours due to packing and travelling. Just about everyone lands in Nice today, and most of them will be jet-lagged and half-asleep when they do. But this Berliner and ardent defender of the Billy Wilder legacy is fully acclimated. My Berlin-to-Nice flight leaves at 10:15 am, but stops in Dusseldorf on the way.
To my great surprise and delight, Christy Hall‘s Daddio, which I was remiss in not seeing during last year’s Telluride...
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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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Unless Part Two of Kevin Costner‘s Horizon (Warner Bros., 8.16) somehow improves upon the sluggish initial installment and delivers something...
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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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