N.Y. Times critic Manohla Dargis recently spoke with WOSU‘s Steve Paulson, in part about the generally tiresome expectation of reciting a plot in a film review, and about the market validity and reach of her reviews (and A.O. Scott‘s). Paulson gently hints that the Times‘ long history and strong assocation with print may lead some to think of she and Scott as “dinosaurs,” but Dargis sets him straight.
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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