A man goes to the movies. The critic must be honest enough to admit he is that man. —Robert Warshow Like a lot of you, I spent 2020 at home. And, as you probably know, that meant an awful lot … Continue reading A QUIET PLACE PART II
Elizabeth and Monty opens not with a movie but with an incident. Arguably the most infamous incident of Elizabeth Taylor and Montgomery Clift’s relationship: Him lying on the ground in a pool of blood, her in a white satin cocktail dress fishing broken teeth from his throat. Continue reading ELIZABETH AND MONTY: THE UNTOLD STORY OF THEIR INTIMATE FRIENDSHIP
Cefn Fforest of South Wales has seen better days. Storefronts are boarded up, and the residents shuffle between jobs that provide no purpose, no sense of meaning. This used to be a mining village—emphasis on used to be. And it … Continue reading DREAM HORSE
He’s just so damn handsome. Smooth skin, full head of shiny black hair, snappy dinner clothes, thin as a rail—what girl wouldn’t fall for Jerry Corbett? Coffee heiress Joan Prentice sure does. She falls for his charm and she falls … Continue reading MERRILY WE GO TO HELL
They’re all sort of home movies—a vacation documented… —Orson Welles to Peter Bogdanovich Paris, February 1955: Orson Welles is trying to get a staged version of Moby Dick off the ground. Enter English writer Wolf Mankowitz. Armed with means, Mankowitz convinces Welles … Continue reading AROUND THE WORLD WITH ORSON WELLES
Middle East peace is always a very attractive proposition,” Gamal Helal says. “It’s a very sexy topic. I cannot think of a secretary of state who did not want to get involved in the Middle East. And, by the way, … Continue reading THE HUMAN FACTOR
A young woman knows where she is going. She always has. Today it is to the island of Kiloran in the Scottish Hebrides. It will take a day and a night to get there—first by train, then by boat—but when … Continue reading I KNOW WHERE I’M GOING!
For more than a decade, cinema’s faithful have flocked to the promised land every spring for the TCM Classic Film Festival: One long weekend on Hollywood Boulevard in the movie palaces of yore under the flickering images of the familiar … Continue reading Let’s Movie: 2021 TCM Classic Film Festival
Molly (Mila Kunis) was 17 when she sprained her knee waterskiing. Later that day, she walked out of the doctor’s office with a fistful of oxy. Now Molly’s 31, toothless, and strung out on her mother’s front porch. I just … Continue reading FOUR GOOD DAYS
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