I use this space for movie-related thoughts, that's about it.
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Jun 14
He said he'd held his tongue as long as Hanson was alive but now says he considers it "a turkey of the highest form."
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Jun 14
That was the least of the problems at the screening. LA Confidential is a great film, but the image and sound quality at the Los Angeles Theater was pretty bad. Color was off, out of focus, hard to hear some of the dialogue.
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Ryan Stewart retweeted
Jun 14
LOL...Dog did that at the three Denver screenings he hosted. He wants people to buy the book and, believe it or not, he wasn't paid that much for the screen rights.
Jun 13
A 35mm print of L.A CONFIDENTIAL is screening in L.A. tonight with an in-person introduction by James Ellroy, which is hilarious because he openly hates the movie and will 100 percent tell the audience they are about to watch a piece of crap. What is he thinking?
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Sharon Stone, 1992
Photos by Nancy Ellison
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Jun 13
A 35mm print of L.A CONFIDENTIAL is screening in L.A. tonight with an in-person introduction by James Ellroy, which is hilarious because he openly hates the movie and will 100 percent tell the audience they are about to watch a piece of crap. What is he thinking?
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Ryan Stewart retweeted
Jun 13
Fun Stalin fact: he was a serious cinephile, watching films almost every night, either at the Kremlin or his dacha, and often into the early hours. Among the films he’s known or believed to have watched are Clark Gable rom-com It Happened One Night and various John Wayne Westerns.
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Jun 13
I read an interview with Sharon Stone like a week ago where she said that she always thought comedy was her strong suit. At first I scoffed and then I remembered that she's fantastic and very funny in Albert Brooks's THE MUSE. She's also funny in CASINO in a dark, twisted way.
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[TAXI DRIVER] This movie, too, has an erotic aura. There is practically no sex in it, but no sex can be as disturbing as sex. And that’s what it’s about: the absence of sex—bottled-up, impacted energy and emotion, with a blood-splattering release. (1976)
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Jun 12
Watching CRIMINAL LAW. Martin Campbell shoots great footage, some of the shots here reminded me of GOLDENEYE. He's also in love with Gary Oldman, I've never seen such a star vehicle. I bet he tried to get Oldman in the door for THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS. The racquetball scene is nuts.
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Jun 11
Looking at posters: the French poster for ROUNDERS has Famke Janssen at the center of the frame, even though she's only in the movie for a bit. AI tells me that "the French release swapped out Gretchen Mol for Famke to capitalize on Janssen's massive European star power." Brutal.
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Ryan Stewart retweeted
Jun 9
In the 1938 film The Adventures of Robin Hood, stuntmen were dressed in padding and steel plates and shot with real arrows. They were paid a $150 bonus per arrow.
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Jun 10
“If the picture was left the way it was, it would be interesting, but you’d feel some distance. You’d be observing it somewhat. I’m more interested in its original intent impacting you the same way it may have in 1986." -- Michael Mann on the upcoming MANHUNTER 4K. Uh-oh.
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Jun 10
Watching MONEYBALL. This might be the most Soderbergh-ian movie ever, which is wild since Soderbergh developed the project and then left over his desire to take it in a completely different creative direction. It's like they wanted to show him his original vision was correct.
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Jun 9
Owen Gleiberman cutting pretty deep in his DISCLOSURE DAY review. UFO lore is a “fairy tale for the dispossessed” he says. I tend to agree. There are no aliens, obviously. That doesn’t take anything away from the movies about them. I also like movies about Bigfoot.
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Jun 8
Kurt Russell and Michelle Pfeiffer spilling the beans about trouble on the set of TEQUILA SUNRISE was not what I expected to read today. Russell says he had to serve as a "go-between" for Pfeiffer and Robert Towne and that Towne wasn't much of a director. Now it can be told!
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Ryan Stewart retweeted
Jun 7
John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s heroin supplier was the man who played the leader of the apes in the opening of ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’.
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Jun 7
I don’t like the fact that David Thomson’s new book out next month is being self-described as his “career capstone.” I want him to keep writing forever. At the same time (and I called this a year ago) him choosing to go out writing about ANORA is the most on-brand thing ever.
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Jun 7
Watching EDEN LAKE. I missed this in 2008. I wasn't really buying the story (that one scene in the middle feels very forced) so I started critiquing Kelly Reilly's performance. Her role calls for some heavy, theatrical emoting and I kept sensing that she wasn't really feeling it.
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Ryan Stewart retweeted
Jun 5
Anyone ranking Mission: Impossible II as low-tier clearly dislikes bold, unapologetic cinema. The signature arm flick before the car explosion? Pure John Woo—iconic and badass.
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