Four months ago in Cannes, my highly enthusiastic response to Walter Salles On The Road was a minority opinion. Which I didn’t give a damn about. I saw what I saw and knew what I knew. But Salles himself obviously agreed that it needed to be tweaked and modified as the Road screening here is 15 minutes shorter — 124 minutes vs. the 139-minute version shown in Cannes. I’m told last night that the film also has a whole new beginning. It opens in England on 9.21, and 12.21 stateside.
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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