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Casting Notes
Francis Ford Coppola’s casting notes for The Godfather:
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Karen Black: RIP
Karen Black has passed at the age of 74. While I never found her to be an actress of much range, for a good stretch she was a go-to actress for many movies in the 70s: Karen Black, the Oscar-nominated … Continue reading
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Crush It Like Quint
In honor of Discovery Channel’s “Shark Week,” Narragansett Beer is, for a limited time, reintroducing the 1970s beer can design from the move Jaws.
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (2013)
For Ben Stiller, it’s been a labor of love to get this film made. The trailer is very promising, surfing into Oscar-bait territory. Here’s hoping the movie as a whole doesn’t suck.
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Njosnavelin
This ending sequence of a flawed but fascinating film (and a shot-for-shot remake of Abres Los Ojos) was lifted to transcendental status with Sigur Ros’s Njosnavelin on the soundtrack:
Raymond Chandler
The Telegraph has a nice little piece on the great Raymond Chandler, the granddaddy of noir.
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Dennis Farina: RIP
Character actor Dennis Farina has died at 69. While he was great as Lt. Mike Torello in the cult, mid-80s series Crime Story, and as Ray ‘Bones’ Barboni in Get Shorty (1995), for me his most memorable role was as Jimmy … Continue reading
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Murder, My Sweet (1944)
My favorite noir film. Click on the photo for the animated .gif.
The Counselor
The New Yorker recently published a 4-page excerpt of literary genius Cormac McCarthy’s original screenplay for The Counselor. It appears to be the opening sequences of the film, an edge-of-your-seat sequence without dialogue, depicting some of the grittier elements of … Continue reading
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