“The confidence I’ve always had as an actor was never that I was so good, but that others were so bad.” – Into The Wild director and screenwriter Sean Penn talking earlier today to the Newark Star Ledger‘s Stephen Whitty.
Gentle Parenting FableLast night Hollywood Elsewhere sat down with Marc Turtletaub‘s Jules (Bleecker Street), a quiet little fable about a vaguely flaky,...
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Annoying Beefalo on Baltic BeachLast night I drove all the way to Pleasantville’s Jacob Burns Film Center (45 minutes) to see Christian Petzold‘s Afire....
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Better Quality “Romper Stomper” Gang Fight Scene27 months ago I posted a six-and-a-half-minute version of the legendary gang fight sequence from Geoffrey Wright‘s Romper Stomper (’92),...
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Irving Pichel’s “Miracle of the Car Window”Three or four weeks ago the driver’s side window in my VW Passat gave up the ghost. It went down...
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Curious Silence From Team WoodyJordan Ruimy is reporting today what most of us have been presuming all along. One, widespread Stalinist obstinacy about Woody...
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Infuriating “Pot au Feu” StasisI’ve been moaning and groaning for weeks about the seemingly unfortunate fate of Tran Anh Hung’s The Pot au Feu,...
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