Publicity photo for the 2001 "film" Crocodile Dundee in Los Angeles
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Hollywood is mostly a union town but when new sides of the industry develop, they have to be organized too and they often aren't. You saw that with the video.
Julia Reichert, 2011, photo credit Seth Bauguess, Wright State University Julia Reichert, a significant figure in documentary filmmaking and progressive politics and the arts here in the Dayton area, has.
Well, I have now never seen the Greatest Film of All Time(TM). I guess I need to fix that. I have seen one or two Akerman films and found them a little slow. But I guess I need to watch this. As Scott pointed out,...
This is the grave of Sam Spiegel. Born in 1901 in Jaroslaw, Poland (though it was then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire), Spiegel grew up in a wealthy Jewish household..
We do need a word on Wolfgang Petersen here, as he has died at the age of 81. I see Peterson as one of a long line of European directors.
Should have had a better career overall and made a lot of very questionable choices (the list of roles he turned down is astounding), but of course he was great in The Godfather. RIP.
One of the truly great character actors of the last half-century is gone. When I think of Hall, I think of his great work in Hard Eight, Paul Thomas Anderson's.
Given the centrality of Goodfellas to the culture of this site, I am sure that we will have more to say about the passing of Ray Liotta. I was always.
A legend is gone. [SL] Friend of the blog Glenn Kenny has a great tribute. I plan on screening Broadcast News and Body Heat at my earliest convenience... [EL} Kenny's ability to put something out that good that quickly is the sign of a truly...
This is the grave of Nita Naldi. Born in 1894 in a New York tenement to Irish immigrant parents, Nonna Dooley grew up very poor. Four of her five siblings.
A huge, gigantic loss of one of the all-time giants.