Clearly, 22 year-old Stacy Martin (playing the young “Joe,” whom Charlotte Gainsbourg portrays at age 50) is the champ in this trailer. The smiles on the men’s faces are subtle, kindly, gently leering. I’m starting to see the validity of Stellan Skarsgard‘s quote about Nymphomaniac being “a very bad wanking movie.” Martin/Gainsbourg: “The difference between me and other people is that I’ve always demanded more from the sunsets…more spectacular colors as the sun hits the horizon.”
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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