Julie and Tom announced today that the 2020 Telluride Film Festival is happening fuh sure. A five-day festival instead of the usual four — Thursday, 9.3 to Monday, 9.7. As in “take that Rocky Mountain shit to the bank.” As in “we cool, not afraid, doin’ it.” I’m not in the least bit concerned as Telluride festivalgoers are grade A, refined, well-educated, approvable — wealthy or X-factor or industry folk with months of safe behavior behind them. I expect to see all kinds of stylish face masks.
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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