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Sigh…
Wonder…
The Ferrara Files Two: Abel Goes Hollywood. Sort Of.
By the mid-1980s, Abel Ferrara was, as they say, moving up the Hollywood ladder.
“Now That’s Showbiz!”: An Interview with Filmmaker Allan Holzman on His Great Book Detailing the Making of New World Pictures’ FORBIDDEN WORLD
An interview with filmmaker Allan Holzman about his remarkable new book, Celluloid Wars 2: The making of FORBIDDEN WORLD.
The Ferrara Files, Part One: Welcome to Fear City
Abel Ferrara’s The Driller Killer, Ms. 45 and Fear City are an unofficial trilogy of sex, violence, alienation, and filmmaking on the streets of a city coming apart at the seams. Part One of The Ferrara Files, my journey through the work of one of America’s essential filmmakers.
Richard Lester’s “Robin and Marian:” The Greatest Robin Hood Movie Ever Made?
…that’s what makes Sean Connery’s casting so inspired. The screen’s great embodiment of masculine invulnerability is playing a hero whose body and spirit have finally begun to reveal the price of all that invulnerability…
Reflections on ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER
Looking back a year later, One Battle After Another is a movie that behaves as if Anderson suddenly remembered that the camera is a toy before it’s an altar.
Difficult to Ignore: David Mamet’s Unproduced Screenplays DENTISTS WITH GUNS and RUSSIAN POLAND
Newly unleashed, unproduced screenplays by David Mamet are difficult to ignore.
Worth the Cringe: Zendaya in THE DRAMA
Zendaya is Worth the Cringe in THE DRAMA.
Deneuve as Bogart: The Strange Pleasures of Ecoute Voir…
Deneuve as Bogart. Pretty cool.
Deneuve Unleashed: Screwball Chaos in Rappeneau’s Le Sauvage
Cinema doesn’t get much more European than Yves Montand clocking Catherine Deneuve with a pineapple in LE SAUVAGE.
Ella McCay: a Generous Movie in an Ungenerous Era
I was wholly involved, engaged and intrigued watching Ella McCay. We as a race should be more embarrassed by our obsession with finding new cool, cinematic ways to represent bullet trajectories.
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