The trailer for Michael Haneke‘s Funny Games (Warner Independent, 2.15.08), which screened on the WB lot a few weeks back but a hiatus is currently in effect. (A journalist friend saw and liked it.) Michael Haeneke has remade his 1997 German-language original with an English-language cast — Naomi Watts, Michael Pitt, Tim Roth, Brady Corbet, Siobhan Fallon. It’s a family-hostage melodrama that recalls that horrific incident that happened in Cheshire, Connecticut, last July.
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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