I’m searching around for news about who will write the script for The Winter of Frankie Machine, an aging-mafia-hitman flick to be directed by Martin Scorsese and star Robert De Niro, to be produced by De Niro and Jane Rosenthal. Whether this film actually happens or not, the source material is a book by Don Winslow. (Haven’t read it, but of course the name “Frankie Machine” was Frank Sinatra ‘s in Preminger’s The Man with the Golden Arm.) If anyone knows anything…
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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