I love editors. I say this as someone who doesn't have the greatest confidence in his own writing. I don't always agree with their ideas, but I usually do. I am reminded of how much I love editors when I see the Director's Cut of...
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Edward Copeland: I don’t know what to say about Tracy. Katharine Hepburn once compared him to a potato (she meant it as a compliment), and that’s pretty apt. He’s solid.
Why someone didn't cast Werner Herzog as a supervillain before this is beyond me. Who could be more perfect?
Like a lot of people, I am perplexed by Netflix splitting its home-delivery service from its online service: Which raises the question: What is Reed Hastings smoking? As far as anyone can tell, he seems to have rolled up pages from The Innovator's Dilemma, Clayton...
The American Film Archives, which have preserved hundreds of rare and nearly lost films, are releasing their 5th DVD set this month, on the West. Covering the years 1898-1938, this.
So it seems that Rod Lurie is remaking Sam Peckinpah's Straw Dogs. I have deep reservations about this. I love Sam Peckinpah. I will defend many of his movies (OK,.
A great piece on the wonderful Robert Ryan, one of the most underrated actors in Hollywood history. I was actually thinking of writing a series of posts on Ryan myself, but I'll let this suffice. I think Ryan's characters are almost uniformly wonderful--the lieutenant desperate...
Excellent essay at Only the Cinema on Out of Sight, clearly Soderbergh's best film (though a strong case can be made for The Limey) and one of the most entertaining.
The Netflix price spike annoys me as much as everyone else. I don't mind paying for my films, and indeed I do, but the combination of the on-demand and mail.
Alyssa Rosenberg (whose work I think is fantastic) poses a great question: ...it struck me all over again how few movies we have about the Revolutionary War. I’d looked into this a couple of years ago, but it’s really kind of stunning. The success of...
Edward Copeland with an absolutely fantastic discussion of Hitchcock's superb Strangers on a Train, especially Robert Walker's titanic work as the uber-creepy Bruno. Copeland concludes: Finally, there's the climax on.
Interesting... Meanwhile, opinions about Henry Potter’s character have changed over the years. In light of the housing-market crisis, the fiscally responsible banker may not have been such a bad guy.