By honoring Rabbit Hole producer-star Nicole Kidman with a Cinema Vanguard Award at the 2011 Santa Barbara Film Festival (1.27 to 2.6), Roger Durling is saying the Best Actress Oscar race is now a three-way competition — Kidman vs. Natalie Portman vs. Annette Bening. I can buy into that. Becca Corbett, the grief-stricken wife in Rabbit Hole, is Kidman’s best role since her Oscar-winning Virginia Wolff in The Hours, which was eight years ago. And is arguably her most touching.
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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