Variety music reporter and AARP magazine film critic Chris Willman picks me up tomorrow morning around 6:30 am, give or take, and then it’s off to Gallup, New Mexico. Typing is always difficult in a moving car, but I can manage. 11:30 pm now — alarm set for 5 am. Expecting to hit Telluride around 2 or 3 pm on Thursday afternoon. Awards Daily‘s Sasha Stone is driving also, but she tends to poke along. Last year she arrived Thursday evening.
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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