Not a diss. I'm on the record here as a Martin & Lewis fan and Elvis movie apologist. And, in fact, one of the earliest long pieces of criticism I wrote was on Taurog's comedies. Really underrated director.
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A "really weird idea of who does not deserve an obituary" is also known as a packed staff writing schedule. Good obituaries aren't written quickly. We have some banked, but the Jacques Rivette obituary (to cite a recent example) involved moving around our review schedule and basically finding someone to go run see a…
So is the avatar supposed to be ironic or what?
Ha! Originally it went off into a spiral about na adjectives and adjectival nouns (and how they're sort of similar to English noun adjuncts), but then I decided to just shorten it to "in the English sense."
Fun fact: Yakov Smirnoff is totally unknown outside the US, and is neither Russian nor actually named Yakov Smirnoff.
It definitely doesn't, but that doesn't mean 50% of people don't try to pronounce it that way.
An industry party. Michael Curtiz and André de Toth are in a corner, having a loud, boisterous conversation in Hungarian. Otto Preminger gets annoyed. Walks over. Says, "Gentlemen, don't you know where you are? This is Hollywood. Speak German."
It's pronounced Игнатий.
Public service announcement: Link #2 in the Grebenshikov entry ("Ivan-Chai") reveals the secret of how Russians actually pronounce "Ivan."
Sounds like somebody didn't go to school in Belgium, Germany, or any of the Nordic countries!
Way back in the haze of the mid-2000s, I used to work at a movie theater. A lot of the people I knew then worked in other theaters and multiplexes. (Oddly, A.A. Dowd worked in the same theater as I did; I got fired, he didn't, so maybe that's why he's my boss.)
You really have no idea how much power Putin has.
No, The Overlook is a dictatorship.
About half of the movie is still in Spanish, including most of the opening stretch. And it's not like the studio came in and shot those Reeves scenes.
I love Belly. I'm talking Beanie Siegel and Damon Dash movies. I'm talking any of the gazillion movies Master P directed. I'm talking all the Albert Pyun movies Ice-T starred in.
The next selection was the original pilot for this feature. However, it was felt that, because it was new, it needed to launch with something better-known, and The Happening was on my list of movies I wanted to eventually cover in the column.
Okay, I'll correct you: In almost every interview prior to the movie's release, he goes out of his way to point out that it's supposed to be an homage to B movies.
Large portion of a film fest audience is made up of people with badges: press, industry reps, folks who fork over large amounts of money for the privilege.
Tom Hardy's lines, that scene where Glass dreams he's in an Orthodox church.