Marilyn’s Method: My
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piece on Marilyn Monroe, her performances in The Misfits, Niagara & Bus Stop, specifically, and her journey and power as an actress and an artist
50th Anniversary of this masterpiece. What a wonderful evening Monday night
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discussing on stage w/ Elliott who was, as usual fascinating and charming. Still the coolest cat in the room. Thanks to everyone who came out. Courry brand cat food forever.
I loved this movie
I'm going to re-read all of the Melville on my shelf
I haven't seen Marriage Story but this is another version of Marriage Story
I am making a Spotify list of sea shanties
"In this spoof of ooh-la-la, it is not women but men who are exposed and humiliated, and the two girls, strutting their wares, command awe much like two renowned gunfighters."
-- Molly Haskell on "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" (via her seminal book From Reverence to Rape)
My
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deep dive on the real & mythic, the Once Upon a Time..., the musical, dreamy, cathartic, poignant & things so deeply embedded & emotional in QT's masterpiece, "Once Upon a Time ... in Hollywood": (warning: spoilers)
I love this movie -- Scorsese's Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore. To me, it's one of the greatest movies about women & the shit they deal have to deal with. So human & funny & scary & complex. Alice is one of my favorite on-screen mothers & this shot looks like a William Eggleston
One of the truly scariest and saddest movies I've ever seen ... also hauntingly beautiful. The combination of terror and grief affected me so much when I first saw it that I couldn't sleep for weeks. What a brilliant filmmaker. Rest in Peace, Nicolas Roeg.
Excited to announce this film series -- 10 films curated by Quentin Tarantino from the Columbia Pictures library (from 1958-70) -- Quentin & I dig in & discuss! Watch on the Sony Movie Channel July 21-25:
Marilyn Monroe photographed by Milton Greene on the Fox studio backlot, 1954, on the French village set of What Price Glory. MM is wearing Jennifer Jones' costume from The Song of Bernadette (1943)
Guillermo introduced Martin Scorsese as an “indispensable titan" presenting him with the David O. Selznick Award from the PGA last night -- an unforgettable evening -- photo: Jordan Strauss/Shuttershock
Rest in Peace to the great George Segal. What a career & a long career -- so gifted at comedy and drama -- so open and poignant & hilarious & brave in his movies. And so many great ones (one of my personal faves: California Split). He was one of the best. What a loss.
Rest in Peace, Julie Adams. I was honored to interview her on stage, at the Palm Springs Noir Fest in 2011, about her work in Joseph Pevney's "Six Bridges to Cross." She was charming, intelligent, thoughtful and lovely.
Tobe Hooper's The Texas Chainsaw Massacre opened 45 years ago today. Here's my
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piece on the classic & why it's not only one of the scariest horror films ever made but also one of the most strangely beautiful:
My essay on Martin Scorsese's masterpiece "Goodfellas" and how music is such a passionate, pulsating part of the picture. Scorsese created his own audio/visual baroque wall of sound... Playing this Fri & Sat
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Happy Birthday, Marilyn Monroe. My piece about MM in the desert on a blanket, The Misfits, the actress, the model, the mystery and my never-ending obsession w/ the ubiquitous though still enigmatic movie star. And more. I love you, MM.
My long discussion w/ Quentin Tarantino about Once Upon a Time ... in Hollywood — He talks LA, influences, music, movies, Burt Reynolds & how Leonardo DiCaprio became a huge Ralph Meeker fan - excerpts from Sight & Sound w/extra-extra
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Segal: "I got along with [Altman] really well... It was like a party. It was so civilized back then. There were no long hours. It was relaxed. That’s why those movies from the ’70s were so good...Those ’70s, what we’re talking about, were transcendent..."
Up now! My
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essay on one of my favorite actresses - charming, complex, funny, serious & seriously smart Jean Arthur - for the
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Jean Arthur series currently playing. Read it here:
"If you men only knew..." My very long piece on Stanley Kubrick's endlessly fascinating masterpiece, "Eyes Wide Shut" - Plays tomorrow, a 2 PM matinee
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Get your taxes done and go... "Fidelio."
Out
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! My 9-page interview w/Tarantino who "shares the deep-Hollywood tales he gleaned from Bruce Dern & the late Burt Reynolds & explains how both DiCaprio’s discovery of Ralph Meeker & Brad Pitt’s father’s love of TV westerns fed into DiCaprio’s characterization."
Attn: You can watch Altman's California Split on Amazon Prime in original version. Watch the masterpiece! Then read my expansive 3-part interview w/ Elliott Gould, George Segal & screenwriter Joseph Walsh. It's a long one --so many great stories...
Happy Birthday to one of my favorite actors & favorite humans, Elliott Gould! A one-in-a-million original. I've interviewed him many times & he's always fascinating, insightful, funny. Here's our discussion of The Long Goodbye
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Elliott Forever!
A Dickensian Christmas story, a surreal Twilight Zone nightmare & the very very All American trait of losing one’s mind ... My piece on IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE, playing Dec 22&23
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