“Anything can be great. I don’t care… bricklaying can be great if a guy knows. He knows what he’s doing and why and can make it come off. When I’m really going…I feel like a…like a jockey sittin’ on his horse. He’s got all that speed and power beneath him, comin’ into the stretch, the pressure’s on, and he knows…he can just feel when to let it go and how much. Because he’s got everything going for him — timing, touch. It’s a real great feelin‘ when you’re right, and you know you’re right.”
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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