The 2006 Toronto Film Festival will run from 9.7 (a little more than seven weeks from now) through 9.16, and I guess I’ll be running some kind of preliminary rundown sometime around August 7th (maybe a week later). Wait…here’s something definitive: the poster looks cool. It’s all part of a gathering desire to extract my head from the summer mentality. If only Clint Eastwood ‘s Flags of our Fathers and Mel Gibson‘s Apocalypto had stuck to their August release dates….water under the bridge.
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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