Sometime between now and May I’m going to visit Monument Valley for a couple of days, and stay at Goulding’s Lodge. I’ve also decided that however long the drive turns out to be, I’m going to listen to mostly movie soundtracks. Particularly, I’m thinking, Phillip Glass‘s The Fog of War score, which I find curiously soothing. This track especially.
Soundtracks go well with driving because they don’t demand your attention. They’re meant to flavor and complement, not dominate.
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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