The 2007 Seattle Film Festival, which I plan to visit for three and a half days, will run from Thursday, May 24th to Sunday, June 17th — a full 25 days, which is a good 15 days longer than most big-time film festivals. You can bet that the volunteers are whipped when it’s over. I won’t be seeing the opening-nighter, Garth Jenning‘s Son of Rambo (which was acquired at last January’s Sundance Film Festival by Paramount Vantage) but…well, something will happen.
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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