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Having recently seen THE LEGEND OF LYLAH CLARE, I thought perhaps Robert Aldrich shaped Borgnine to play a roman a clef version of Columbia studio head Harry Cohn, who fired Aldrich from the 1957 film THE GARMENT JUNGLE.
Borgnine
In the film that, at the age of thirteen, I used to exclusively refer to as "Emperor Of My North Pole." Whaddya want, I was thirteen. Seeing the actual film, and Ernest Borgnine's almost literally Satanic performance in it, shut me up for a bit. The Robert Aldrich drama, pitting train-hopping ...
Thinking that Adam Sandler is overdue for the kind of film academia treatment given to Jerry Lewis.
A friend writes...
Hello, You sir are a moron. Your criticism of the 10 worst Adam Sandler movies is well at best moronic. Do people really pay you for your opinion? If so they need to call the BBB on you cause you are ripping them off. Seriously? The Waterboy? Big Daddy? Mr. Deeds? If you think these ar...
Certainly, some of the early business re Chris Hemsworth's Huntsman seemed to be mooched from Kurosawa's direction of Toshiro Mifune.
Eternal returns #11
Princess Mononoke, Hayao Miyazaki, 1997 Snow White and the Huntsman, Rupert Sanders, 2012 Haven't done one of these in a while. And there are many who would argue that this example doesn't represent so much an affinity or an example of nothing new under the sun than it does a complete and bl...
If I recall correctly, Rex didn't enjoy THE WILD BUNCH either.
Whose "Woods" these are
I enjoyed the tricksy Cabin In The Woods (featuring Kristen Connolly, Jesse Williams, and a one-way mirror, all seen above) a whole lot more than poor cranky Rex Reed did, as my review for MSN Movies attests. But I'll defend the poor fellow's right to bitch about his unpleasant direct experien...
Imagining the review Lester could have written of the upcoming Lou-and-Metallica collaboration.
Literary interlude
"Hey, Lou, you got anything to drink?" "No...You don't know what you're doing, you haven't done any research. You make it good for the rest of us by taking the crap off the market. Plus you're poor. [I told you he'd stop at nothing. It's this kind of thing that may well be Lou Reed's last tenuou...
Hi Glenn,
Know this is off-topic, but I'm curious if you have anything to say regarding Jim Sheridan's DREAM HOUSE. My wife and I are going to see it tomorrow in spite of the it's-bad-bad-bad advance word.
Just curious if there's any rumblings on whether or not the film in its current form reflects James Robinson and Morgan Creek more than whatever Sheridan might have had in mind.
The current cinema, don't look edition
What's Your Number? was pretty bad. Uncinematic, even. My review for MSN Movies.
Don't know if she's a stupider version of Renata Adler or a smarter variant on Ben Lyons.
The Schwarzeneggerean Concept of Eternal Return
Despite various sins against criticism, and the fact that I am sometimes moved to pity by the wailing and gnashing of teeth of my younger confreres, I've never felt moved to comment on the apprehension-producing output of one Natasha Vargas-Cooper, a really not-so-bright young thing whose stag...
Re "the dopey final fifth of Redbelt"--I believe the climax was Mamet's homage to Buster Keaton's outside-the-ring capper to BATTLING BUTLER.
In which the 63-year-old David Mamet approximates the intellectual condition of a 25-year-old Demi Moore
I know they say you can find anything and everything on the internet, but that's not true, and it's not true in a lot of ways, and I was just reminded on one of the ways it isn't true just now, as I searched in vain for a print morsel or even the TV interview clip in question, to no avail. In an...
I can't wait for the David Mamet/Dennis Miller conversation about how they saw the Light of the Right.
In which the 63-year-old David Mamet approximates the intellectual condition of a 25-year-old Demi Moore
I know they say you can find anything and everything on the internet, but that's not true, and it's not true in a lot of ways, and I was just reminded on one of the ways it isn't true just now, as I searched in vain for a print morsel or even the TV interview clip in question, to no avail. In an...
Here's a passage from an article in NEW YORK about Mitchell's leaving THE NEW YORK TIMES:
“Elvis has this sort of Candide-like air about him,” says Outside executive editor Jay Stowe, who edited Mitchell at Spin (yes, he worked there, too). It’s not naïveté, exactly, but an aura of doing what he wants and seeming surprised, in all innocence, when people take offense.
A good example was in 1992, when Mitchell was recruited to a development job at Paramount Pictures by his friend Brandon Tartikoff. He was fired six months later after Paramount decided that the job conflicted with his reviewing duties on NPR’s “Weekend Edition.” (Variety reported he was “shocked.”)
Another riddle
Q: What's the difference between Elvis Mitchell and Roger Kimball? A: There's more than one. But a particularly salient one, though, it seems, is that when Elvis Mitchell makes a descriptive error concerning a film, he gets fired from his position, whereas when Roger Kimball repeatedly perpetuat...
"Another thing one winds up noticing is all the gyrations the camera and editing seem to go through in avoiding revealing any of the demure Ms. Portman's naughty bits."
Still remembering her being sort-of-nude-but-turned-sideways in that overpretentious Wes Anderson short which was the mini-prequel to THE DARJEELING LIMITED (HOTEL CHEVALIER).
The current cinema, There Ain't No Bugs Bunny On The Evening Stage edition
"In short, Longworth is cutting the film a break in part because she's living a similar kind of 20something/early-30something Los Angeles life in this or that way, and because she relates to the youngish Meriwether and the world she created and conveyed on the page before Reitman came along an...
Certainly Aja's PIRANHA (which I finally saw in 2D) also qualifies for the description of "unapologetic tacky luridness."
Image of the day, 1/13/11
From Vampire Circus, Robert Young, 1972 Of course one of the great things about this late-vintage Hammer item is its unapologetic tacky luridness, into the midst of which it will, almost randomly, toss a genuinely transportive image. The recent Blu-ray/DVD combo pack of the picture from Synaps...
Another in the line of unofficial Sony remakes e.g. GUESS WHO? (GUESS WHO'S COMING TO DINNER) and that ROOMMATES Screen Gems thing with Leighton Meester, Minka Kelly and Cam what's-his-name-from-BURLESQUE (looks like yet another trip round the mulberry bush of SINGLE WHITE FEMALE).
Department of "Huh?"
There's a remake of the above picture coming out in February. If you don't already know what the film is, trust me: you'll never guess. Not that, in this day and age, you would actually guess. What you would, or will, do, is Google search. And when you turn up the result, you're going to...how...
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