Thanks very much to the IFP Spirit Awards organizers for giving me a seat at one of the tables with all the hot-shots inside the big white tent tomorrow afternoon. Four or five years ago I was booted into the press tent because of all the corporate contributors buying more and more tables, etc. The show goes on IFC (Independent Film Channel) at 2:00 pm Pacifc (5:00 pm Eastern). A re-broadccast will happen on AMC at 10:00 pm on both coasts.
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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