Press enthusiasms have never been synonymous with Academy favors, but damned if Brokeback Mountain‘s Heath Ledger doesn’t seem to be edging ahead of Capote‘s Phillip Seymour Hoffman in the Best Actor race at this juncture. Ledger is great in Ang Lee’s film but I’ll be a Hoffman/Capote man to my dying day…it’s just how I see it. But the Brokeback reviews are fresh in everyone’s mind and the Ledger thing is blowing in the wind. I can feel it…I can feel it.
Roughly two months ago a very early draft of Eric Roth‘s screenplay for Killers of the Flower Moon (dated 2.20.17,...
More »
Frances McDormand‘s Fern was strong but mule-stubborn and at the end of the day self-destructive, and this stunted psychology led...
More »
Can’t decide which performance is better, although I’ve always leaned toward Tina Vitale, her cynical New Jersey moll behind the...
More »
Two days ago (1.19) a Facebook tribute congratulated Tippi Hedren for having reached her 94th year (blow out the candles!)...
More »
A friend suggested a list of the Ten Best American Crime Flicks of the ‘70s. By which he meant films...
More »
I’ve never been able to give myself over to Sam Peckinpah’s Major Dundee, a 1965 Civil War–era western, and I’ve...
More »