If I was half-mad and possessed of unlimited funds, I’d be on my way right now to LAX and a flight to Chicago for a special 70mm screening of Paul Thomas Anderson‘s The Master at the Music Box Theater. If I know Roger Ebert, Michael Phillips, Mark Caro, Ray Pride, Michael Wilmington and Jonathan Rosenbaum, they’ll all be there. The gate will go to The Film Foundation, “a nonprofit organization dedicated to protecting and preserving motion picture history.”
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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