This one-sheet for Ryan Fleck’s Half Nelson (ThinkFilm, 8.11) strikes me as one of the better designed I’ve run across in some time. It’s something in the ripeness, the buoyant pastel colors and neat brushstrokes… the way it doesn’t exactly “say” anything about the plot or Ryan Gosling’s character, and yet suggests some kind of character problem with that dead- blank expression on Gosling’s face…all very cool. I hereby nominate it for a Hollywood Reporter Key Award.
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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