In this Press Play video, Matt Zoller Seitz is suggesting a new Oscar for Outstanding Achievement in Collaborative Performance — an Oscar that would “honor memorable characters created by mixing performance with CGI, immersive makeup, puppetry, or other behind-the-scenes craft.” In this, the first of four essays, the focus is Andy Serkis, who should, of course, have been nominated for Best Supporting Actor for Rise of the Planet of the Apes…alas.
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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